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
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..."Beware," says Emerson, "when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at 30 risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. There is not a piece of science but its... | |
| Jonathan Levin - 1999 - 244 pages
...foundations, and dance before our eyes" (EL 4o8). When "the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet," all things "are at risk": "It is as when a conflagration...and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end" (EL 4o7). Art, great conversation, great thoughts, all have the effect of breaking down former limits... | |
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| Richard Schacht - 2001 - 292 pages
..."Beware," says Emerson, "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...where it will end. There is not a piece of science hut its flank may be turned tomorrow; there is not any literary reputation, not the socalled eternal... | |
| Vittoria Borsò - 2002 - 506 pages
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| David Harris - 2000 - 664 pages
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| Stuart E. Rosenbaum - 2003 - 338 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... | |
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