 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. There is not a piece of science but its flank...  Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 90by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jonathan Levin - 1999 - 244 pages
...foundations, and dance before our eyes" (EL 4o8). When "the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet," all things "are at risk": "It is as when a conflagration...and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end" (EL 4o7). Art, great conversation, great thoughts, all have the effect of breaking down former limits... | |
 | Richard Schacht - 2001 - 292 pages
..."Beware," says Emerson, "when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at a risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out...where it will end. There is not a piece of science hut its flank may be turned tomorrow; there is not any literary reputation, not the socalled eternal... | |
 | Stuart E. Rosenbaum - 2003 - 338 pages
...as to preclude a still higher vision. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind are all at the mercy of a... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
...circles of power — certainly not science, which models the ascension through facts to everhigher laws; "There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow," notes Emerson. Soon the entire familiar world has been destabilized and begins to pitch and roll: "All... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pages
...as to preclude a still higher vision. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind are all at the mercy of a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...principles to you aspire to live by? Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind, are all at the mercy of a... | |
 | william george bryant ph.d - 2005 - 576 pages
...powerfully when he -wrote these lines: "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet." when all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken -out in a great city, and -116no one knows -what is safe or where it -will end. There is not a piece of science, but its flank... | |
 | John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 pages
...not claiming that Emerson's texts offer secure, timeless truths. "Circles" puts this most forcefully: "There is not a piece of science, but its flank may...names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned" (CW2, 183) What is eternally now is not some propositional content but the now of the event of our... | |
 | Wallace D. Wattles - 2007 - 152 pages
...— JW TEAL Wlien God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. Tliere is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned tomorrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that may not be refused and condemned.... | |
 | 1914 - 812 pages
...could put asunder. — Eva S. Mahler. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind, are all at the mercy of a... | |
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