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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature: A Detailed Summary

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Nature: A Detailed Summary

Introduction:

Emerson begins by stating, "Our age is retrospective. It builds the
sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism.
The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through
their eyes." He is making the point that much of our knowledge is gained by
reliance upon recorded authorities, upon the written word; thus we get
experience more often vicariously than directly. He then poses the question
which is central to this essay and his whole thought. "Why should not we ...

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