Eliminating God in Daisy Miller, Huckleberry Finn, and the Country of the Sharp TreesThe evils of the Civil War and the rise of empiricism have made many question an omniscient God and omnipotent. According to empiricism, any statement about metaphysical entities (e.g. God, Unicorns, Love, and Beauty) would be a meaningless term because it cannot be proven by the scientific method. But with the loss of faith in God, what happens to morality? This essay will examine how Emily Dickinson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry James, and Mark Twain wrote literature in this era along with war, inhumanity, and despair in God. This essay will show that: (1) Dickinson destroys every dependence on the Bible and the possibility of knowing God, but argues that we should instead praise Nature, which is tangible; (2) Jewett eliminates the omniscient narrator (or God-like figure) in Fir Country, and instead makes readers see life as valuable only through human experiences and reveals the comfort of Nature; (3) Henry James eliminates God in Daisy Miller by removing the omniscient narrator and instead having readers play God, being the judge of Daisy and Winterbourne; (4) Mark Twain uses Huckleberry Finn to question any dependence on God, mocking prayer and church revivals, and instead encouraging one to seek morality in one's conscience. Emily Dickinson learned versification through studying her church hymn. But instead of praising a God who “hid his rare life” (338), she turned to praising Nature that was tangible and empirical. Dickinson seemed to believe in a God: "I know He exists", but faith was greatly hindered by the existence of evil (chiefly the atrocities brought about by the Civil War) in which she wrote that His right hand "is amputated now / And God cannot be found" (1551). This statement may not be as severe as Nietzche's "God is dead," but one can probably imagine that Dickinson wrote these words in tears, because he believed that God could not be found, he attacked the ability of Bible to convey notions of God: “The Bible is an ancient volume---Written by fading men” (1545) Dickinson found more company in his trusty dictionary (which helped define words) than in a Bible (which he had to define life).For Dickinson, Nature was supreme; Nature was tangible; Nature was real./ .