Transcendentalism Emerson Summary

I chose the reading by Emerson; I believe there is a lot of transcendentalism in this reading. Well I don’t believe there is a lot of transcendentalism, starting with the first paragraph first sentence where he writes, “Our Age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes.” He writes in confidence about his beliefs and how he feels about, basically, not “beholding” God and facing nature face to face. To me it seems like he is very interested in the Gods and Nature and is almost a little jealous that he didn’t witness the Gods era. He writes “To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.