...in some form is present. But there is a right use and a wrong use of books. Emerson says that some " meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books," and yet the same writer declares that " well used, books are the best of things." The average college...

...thinkers, not by Man Thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bauon, have given ; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when...

...thinkers, not by Man Thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. f"i Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such ; not as • related to nature and the...

...the very measure of their commanding truth to wean their inheritors from their own essential virtue. "Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it...Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books." Emerson left many things unsaid, indeed. Disciplined himself in a long intellectual tradition,...

...thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up iu libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have...

...affections. Simplicity doth tend towards God ; purity doth apprehend and taste him. — Thomas a Kempis. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they...

...literature, afraid lest the youth become a bookworm, and not a man thinking. .But how well he says : " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...Hence, instead of man thinking, we have the bookworm. " Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What is...

...liberated himself from all authorities. In his first lecture at Harvard University (1837) he said : " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." In this spirit he gathered up the literature of the past into himself, but it was transmuted into his...

...thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the book -learned class, who value books, as such ; not as related to nature and the human constitution,...

...thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the book - learned class, who value books, as such ; not as related to nature and the human constitution,...