 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
 | University of Colorado. Department of Psychology and Education - 1903 - 564 pages
...creating souls. (1) "Beware," he tells us, "When the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...revised and condemned. The very hopes of man, the very thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind are all at the... | |
 | Joseph Battell - 1903 - 722 pages
...opinions about gravitation. Quotation from Mr. Emerson, " \Vlien (Jod lets loose a thinker upon the world, there is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned tomorrow." Quotation from the Principia of Newton, explaining his uses of dif ferent words. Motion not spiritual,... | |
 | 1904 - 778 pages
...melt and yield in the ' wine' of new thought. The ' old bottles burst,' after the metaphor of another. "There is not a piece of science but its flank may...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 - 1905 - 138 pages
...Seek nothing ; Fortune seeketh thee. 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 no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. CIRCLES MAY FIFTH I like to see that we cannot be bought and sold. The best of hospitality and of generosity... | |
 | 1905 - 820 pages
...maintains that it is a conspicuous merit of his work. Emerson, in his " Circles," reminds us that " there is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow," and how could it be wise, or even rational, to put our trust, " more than anything else," in that oi... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...is not a piece of science, but its flank may l>e turned to-morrow ; nor any literary reputation, nor n turn. — Goldsmith. Every error of the mind is the more conspicuous, and — Emerson. Nurture your mind with great thoughts ; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.— Disraeli.... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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 manner and morals of mankind are all at the mercy of a new... | |
 | Sir Henry Jones - 1909 - 330 pages
...devastating conqueror. ' Beware,' says Emerson, ' 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 end.'1 I do not mean to suggest that the history of the world has been made either by battles or by... | |
 | Sir Henry Jones - 1909 - 320 pages
...devastating conqueror. ' Beware,' says Emerson, ' 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 end.'1 I do not mean to suggest that the history of the world has been made either by battles or by... | |
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