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. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition - and a religion by revelation to us - and not the history of theirs? This passage above is from the work of