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
| 1849 - 638 pages
...advantage, is perhaps the following: " Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet ! Then all things are at risk ! It is as when a conflagration...names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned. Tlie very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1860 - 576 pages
...Emerson has characteristically said, ' Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...will end. There is not a piece of science, but its ttauk may be turned to-morrow ; there is not any literary reputation, not the so-called eternal names... | |
| 1910 - 808 pages
...HENRY HARRISON BROWN MERSON tells us to "Beware when the great God 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." And he continues... | |
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