 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
 | 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... | |
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...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... | |
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