 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
 | Ira Woods Howerth - 1912 - 308 pages
...the earth's crust. " 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...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 English Walling - 1913 - 452 pages
...that of the passages just quoted : "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...fame, that may not be revised and condemned. . . . The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their... | |
 | Elias St. Elmo Lewis - 1915 - 498 pages
...just as surely as science decrees it. 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... | |
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 pages
...emergence of the consuming force: "Beware when the Great God lets loose a thinker upon this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...no man knows what is safe, or where it will end." Even the virtues, as we know and conceive them, are not fireproof. There is no evidence that this transitoriness... | |
 | 1916 - 814 pages
...Whole. "Beware," says Emerson, "when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all thing's are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken...will end. There is not a piece of science, but its plank mar be turned tomorrow; there is not any literary reputation, not the socalled eternal names... | |
 | Henry Wyman Holmes, Oscar Charles Gallagher - 1917 - 376 pages
...Advertising." (b) Beware 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...great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it wiB end. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned tomorrow; there is not any literary... | |
 | Archibald Browning Drysdale Alexander - 1920 - 512 pages
...thought is lost. " Beware," says Emerson, " when the great God sets loose a thinker in 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." 1 The world has been made by thoughts as much as by deeds, and by books more than by battles. There... | |
 | 1923 - 476 pages
...let us add this remark from Emerson: "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...of fame, that may not be revised and condemned.'" We librarians thought of these things, and we decided that we are not like Shylock's necessary cat... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...deformed. NOMINALIST AND REALIST + .Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...reputation, not the so-called eternal names of fame, and may not be revised and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion... | |
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