 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from ac5 cepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they 10 wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the book-learned... | |
 | Harold Clarke Goddard - 1908 - 240 pages
...reading."2 Emerson's views on the function of books are given very vigorously in the American Scholar: " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries, when they wrote these books." " Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? . . . They... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their 20 own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in...believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero,0 which Locke,0 which Bacon,0 have given; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...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...believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero,1 which Locke,2 1 Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman author, orator, and statesman. He... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 pages
...mere book-learning he attaches scarcely any importance. Meek young men [he contemptuously observes] grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept...Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books. Books are for nothing but to inspire. It is absurd to make fetishes out of the literature... | |
 | Ira Woods Howerth - 1912 - 308 pages
...print, and to them the library is the only source of knowledge. " Meek young men," says Emerson, " grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept...which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given ; forgetting that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books."... | |
 | Ira Woods Howerth - 1912 - 272 pages
...believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given ; forgetting that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books." 1 The power to think, then, should be consciously encouraged in the schools. If it is not, it is not... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1913 - 268 pages
...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 in libraries when they wrote these books." — (Emerson: The American Scholar.) " It was past noon of a day brightened with the clear sunlight... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 pages
...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...libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views from Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1914 - 528 pages
..."to believe and take for granted." * This should not be, nor can it be if we remember what we are. "Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." 10 When we sincerely find, therefore, that we cannot agree with the Past, then, says Emerson, we must... | |
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given ; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. 
