 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...to preclude a still higher vision.1 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 - 1876 - 300 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...but its flank may be turned tomorrow ; there is not auy literary reputation, not the socalled eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 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...city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will eud. There is not a piece of science, but its flauk may be turned tomorrow ; there is not any literary... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1880 - 272 pages
...of ideas. An idea for evil or for good breaks loose in the world ; " then," says a great writer, " 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 - 1883 - 648 pages
...as to preclude a still higher vision. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. ur, nor a religious sentiment, and never any whim that they of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind, are all at the mercy of a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 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 - 1900 - 356 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 - 1883 - 352 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 has broken out in a great I city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it j will end. There is not a piece of science but... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 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... | |
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