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
| Josiah Hughes - 1891 - 534 pages
...like gleaming gems, such as this : " Beware when the Great God lets loose a thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...out in a great city and no man knows what is safe ; there is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow. There is not any literary... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...piece of science, but its flnnk may be turned to-morrow ; there is not any literary reputation, nor the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condcmed. — Emertm. Nurture your mind with great thoughtsTo believe in the heroic makes heroes. —... | |
| 1896 - 522 pages
...— "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet." Then all things are at a risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow ; there is not any literary reparation, not the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned. The very... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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... | |
| 1900 - 496 pages
...face of the student. "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 no man knows what is safe or where it will end." These silent students of men and things, of principles and processes, in study and laboratory ever... | |
| University of Colorado. Department of Psychology and Education - 1902 - 588 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...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... | |
| 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... | |
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