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" They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul. "
An Inductive Study of Standards of Right - Page 29
by Matthew Hale Wilson - 1916 - 321 pages
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The Microcosm: Or, Little World of Home, Volumes 1-3

1835 - 616 pages
...They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead...thing in the world of value, is, the active soul, — the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within...
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The Boston Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1838 - 536 pages
..." Books are good only to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system." " The soul active sees absolute truth ; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius ; not...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...exact value. " They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than be warped by it clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead...The one thing in the world of value, is the active Soul—the soul free, sovereign active." This high estimate, however, of the all-absorbing importance...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead...The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul,—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This, every man is entitled to ; this every man contains...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one 8 thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man...
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Orations, Lectures and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead...thing in the world, of value, is the active soul, — the soul, free, sovereign, active. This, every man is entitled to ; this, every man contains within...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...are for nothing but to inspire, v/ I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead...of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is_the pptive soul This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although, in...
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Nature: Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...for nothing but. to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction eban out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead...is entitled to; this every man contains within him, altuough, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. Tlie soul active sees absolute truth ;...
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The Cyclopædia of Education: A Dictionary of Information for the Use of ...

Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1876 - 900 pages
...of that fine sentiment of Emerson : " I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.'' Montaigne strongly condemned the prevalent mode of teac faing by authority. " I^et the tutor," says...
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Education, Volume 41

1921 - 744 pages
...information than by the printed page." "I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead...man is entitled to ; this every man contains within himself, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn." "Meek young men grow up in libraries,...
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