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James Fenimore Cooper

Geburtstag: 15. September 1789
Todesdatum: 14. September 1851
Andere Namen: جیمز فنیمور کوپر, Кепер Жеймс Фенимор

James Fenimore Cooper war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller der Romantik.

Cooper ist in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Schlüsselfigur der amerikanischen Literatur. Neben Washington Irving war er der erste amerikanische Schriftsteller, der von seinen Büchern leben konnte. Er blieb bis weit in das 20. Jahrhundert hinein auch in Europa der wohl meistgelesene. Nach dem Vorbild Sir Walter Scotts schrieb er die ersten historischen Romane und die ersten Seefahrtsromane der amerikanischen Literatur. Sein umfangreiches Werk umfasst weiter zahlreiche historiografische Werke, Essays und Satiren über Amerika wie Europa. Besonders bekannt sind bis heute seine fünf „Lederstrumpf“-Romane, die die Erschließung des amerikanischen Westens durch weiße Scouts, Trapper und Siedler, aber auch die allmähliche Zurückdrängung und Vernichtung der indianischen Kultur thematisieren. Wikipedia

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„Mancher ist schon mit dem Ausdrucke des Heldenmutes auf seinen Lippen heimgegangen, während sein Herz schwer und trostlos war.“

—  James Fenimore Cooper, buch Der Pfadfinder

Der Pfadfinder, Kap. 28
Original engl.: "Many a man has died with an heroic expression on his lips, but with heaviness and distrust at his heart." - The Pathfinder. Paris 1840. p. 360,

„Geduld ist eine Tugend an einem Indianer und kann einem christlichen Weißen nicht zur Schande gereichen.“

—  James Fenimore Cooper, buch Die Prärie

Die Steppe (Fenimore Cooper's ausgewählte Romane, 6. Band, Neue Ausgabe), Sauerländer Frankfurt/Main 1839, 29. Kapitel Seite 375, )
Original engl.: "Patience is a virtue in an Indian, and can be no shame to a Christian white man." - The Prairie. London 1836. p. 369,

„History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.“

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—  James Fenimore Cooper, buch The Last of the Mohicans

Quelle: The Last of the Mohicans (1826), Ch. 18

„tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.“

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—  James Fenimore Cooper, buch The Deerslayer

Quelle: The Deerslayer

„It is probable a true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of that reason of which we so much boast.“

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—  James Fenimore Cooper, buch The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea

The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea http://www.amazon.com/The-Pilot-A-Tale-Sea/dp/1490555811 (1829); Preface
The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (1823)

„I shall only say that I have passed a varied and eventful life, that it has been my fortune to see earth, heavens, ocean, and man in most of their aspects; but never have I beheld any spectacle which so plainly manifested the majesty of the Creator, or so forcibly taught the lesson of humility to man as a total eclipse of the sun.“

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—  James Fenimore Cooper, The Eclipse

The Eclipse (1869), conclusion

„Genesis. What an extraordinary history! It is impossible for us to appreciate conduct, when a power like that of God is directly brought to bear on it. Obedience to him is our first law.“

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Journal kept by Cooper from January to May 1848
Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper (1922)

„God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.“

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The Pathfinder (1840)

„The powers, and faculties, and principles that are necessary fully to comprehend all that we see and all that surrounds us, exist and have been bestowed on man by his beneficent Creator. Still, it is only by slow degrees that he is to become their master, acquiring knowledge, step by step, as he has need of its services, and learns how to use it. Such seems to be the design of Providence, which is gradually opening to our inquiries the arcana of nature, in order that we may convert their possession into such uses as will advance its own wise intentions. Happy are they who feel this truth in their character of individuals! Thrice happy the nations which can be made to understand, that the surest progress is that which is made on the clearest principles, and with the greatest caution! The notion of setting up anything new in morals, is as fallacious in theory as it will be found to be dangerous in practice.“

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Quelle: Oak Openings or The bee-hunter (1848), Ch. XXI

„Parson Amen's speculations on this interesting subject, although this may happen to be the first occasion on which he has ever heard the practice of taking scalps justified by Scripture. Viewed in a proper spirit, they ought merely to convey a lesson of humility, by rendering apparent the wisdom, nay the necessity, of men's keeping them-selves within the limits of the sphere of knowledge they were designed to fill, and convey, when rightly considered, as much of a lesson to the Puseyite, with abstractions that are quite as unintelligible to himself as they are to others; to the high-wrought and dogmatical Calvinist, who in the midst of his fiery zeal, forgets that love is the very essence of the relation between God and man; to the Quaker, who seems to think the cut of a coat essential to salvation; to the descendant of the Puritan, who whether he be Socinian, Calvinist, Universalist, or any other "1st," appears to believe that the "rock" on which Christ declared he would found his church was the "Rock of Plymouth"; and to the unbeliever, who, in deriding all creeds, does not know where to turn to find one to substitute in their stead. Humility, in matters of this sort, is the great lesson that all should teach and learn; for it opens the way to charity, and eventually to faith, and through both of these to hope; finally, through all of these, to heaven.“

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—  James Fenimore Cooper

Quelle: Oak Openings or The bee-hunter (1848), Ch. XI

„It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience.“

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—  James Fenimore Cooper, buch The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans (1826), Ch. 8

„Tis grand! 'tis solemn! 'tis an education of itself to look upon!“

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—  James Fenimore Cooper, buch The Deerslayer

The Deerslayer (1841), Ch. 6

„One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty.“

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—  James Fenimore Cooper

A Letter to His Countrymen (1834)

„Trust to HIM. There are days in which the sun is not seen—when a lurid darkness brings a second night over the earth. It matters not. The great luminary is always there. There may be clouds before his face, but the winds will blow them away. The man or the people that trust in God will find a lake for every See-wise.“

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The Lake Gun http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2328/2328-h/2328-h.htm (1851)

„There is something so gratifying to human vanity in fancying ourselves superior to most around us, that we believe few young men attain their majority without imbibing more or less of the taint of unbelief, and passing through the mists of a vapid moral atmosphere, before they come to the clear, manly, and yet humble perceptions that teach most of us, in the end, our own insignificance, the great benevolence as well as wisdom of the scheme of redemption, and the philosophy of the Christian religion, as well as its divinity.
Perhaps the greatest stumbling-block of the young is a disposition not to yield to their belief unless it conforms to their own crude notions of propriety and reason. If the powers of man were equal to analyzing the nature of the Deity, to comprehending His being, and power, and motives, there would be some little show of sense in thus setting up the pretence of satisfying our judgments in all things, before we yield our credence to a religious system. But the first step we take brings with it the instructive lesson of our incapacity, and teaches the wholesome lesson of humility. From arrogantly claiming a right to worship a deity we comprehend, we soon come to feel that the impenetrable veil that is cast around the Godhead is an indispensable condition of our faith, reverence, and submission.“

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—  James Fenimore Cooper

Preface
The Wing-and-Wing (1842)

„Roswell Gardiner has never wavered in his faith, from the time when his feelings were awakened by the just view of his own insignificance, as compared to the power of God! He then learned the first, great lesson in religious belief, that of humility; without which no man can be truly penitent, or truly a Christian. He no longer thought of measuring the Deity with his narrow faculties, or of setting up his blind conclusions, in the face of positive revelations. He saw that all must be accepted, or none; and there was too much evidence, too much inherent truth, a morality too divine, to allow a mind like his to reject the gospel altogether. With Mary at his side, he has continued to worship the Trinity, accepting its mysteries in an humble reliance on the words of inspired men.“

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The Sea Lions or The Lost Sealers (1849)

„Hebrews. This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.“

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—  James Fenimore Cooper

Journal kept by Cooper from January to May 1848
Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper (1922)

„The idea of not having a Deity that he could not comprehend had long been one of Roswell Gardiner's favourite rules of faith. He did not understand by this pretending dogma, that he was, in any respect, of capacity equal to comprehend with that of the Divine Being, but simply that he was not to be expected or required to believe in any theory which manifestly conflicted with his knowledge and experience, as both were controlled by the powers of induction he had derived directly from his Creator. In a word, his exception was one of the most obvious of the suggestions of the pride of reason, and just so much in direct opposition to the great law of regeneration, which has its very gist in the converse of this feeling --Faith.“

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The Sea Lions or The Lost Sealers (1849)

„Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.“

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—  James Fenimore Cooper, buch The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans (1826), Introduction

„For ourselves, we firmly believe that the finger of Providence is pointing the way to all races, and colors, and nations, along the path that is to lead the east and the west alike to the great goal of human wants. Demons infest that path, and numerous and unhappy are the wanderings of millions who stray from its course; sometimes in reluctance to proceed; sometimes in an indiscreet haste to move faster than their fellows, and always in a forgetfulness of the great rules of conduct that have been handed down from above. Nevertheless, the main course is onward; and the day, in the sense of time, is not distant, when the whole earth is to be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, "as the waters cover the sea.
One of the great stumbling-blocks with a large class of well-meaning, but narrow-judging moralists, are the seeming wrongs that are permitted by Providence, in its control of human events. Such persons take a one-sided view of things, and reduce all principles to the level of their own understandings. If we could comprehend the relations which the Deity bears to us, as well as we can comprehend the relations we bear to him, there might be a little seeming reason in these doubts; but when one of the parties in this mighty scheme of action is a profound mystery to the other, it is worse than idle, it is profane, to attempt to explain those things which our minds are not yet sufficiently cleared from the dross of earth to understand.“

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—  James Fenimore Cooper

Preface
Oak Openings or The bee-hunter (1848)

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