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 [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 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 city, aand no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. There is not a piece of science, but its flank... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...as to preclude a stiD 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 - 1850 - 354 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 - 1852 - 352 pages
...vision. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker jmjKIs^lanl>t7 TfieTTarthings a? e "aTri'skrTf is as" when a conflagration has broken out in a great...reputation, not the so-called eternal names of fame, diat may not be revised and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion... | |
| 1857 - 216 pages
..."Beware," says one,* "when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. 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... | |
| 1865 - 624 pages
...lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration breaks out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end." Count Kumford was the father of the new philosophy. He demonstrated that the current explanations of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 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...to-morrow ; there is not any literary reputation, uot the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned. The very hopes of man,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 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 - 1876 - 504 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 - 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... | |
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