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
| B. L. Packer - 1982 - 264 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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... | |
| David Morse - 1987 - 252 pages
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| Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry, Steven T. Katz - 1988 - 372 pages
...power to upheave all thy creed . . . and marshal! thce to a heaven that no epic dream has yet depicted. There is not a piece of science but its flank may...turned tomorrow; there is not any literary reputation . . . that may not be revised and condemned . . . Life is full of surprises. When Emerson is empathically... | |
| Richard Whelan - 1991 - 212 pages
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| Stephen Fredman - 1993 - 196 pages
...destructive than they are preservative: 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... | |
| Russell B. Goodman - 1995 - 332 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... | |
| C. A. Meier - 1995 - 184 pages
...immense and innumerable expansions.... 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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