 | William Allan Neilson - 1914 - 506 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...only young men in libraries when they wrote these books."1' When we sincerely find, therefore, that we cannot agree with the Past, then, says Emerson,... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 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...when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking^,we ..Jwive the bookworm. Hence the book-learned class, who value books, as such ; not as... | |
 | New York Public Library - 1916 - 614 pages
...Regarding the first, Emerson has a saying, which I can use even more literally than he meant it. He says: "Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." We look at a great man's career in full perspective, but he sees only what has gone before; he knows... | |
 | New York Public Library, Margaret Bingham Stillwell - 1916 - 592 pages
...Regarding the first. Emerson has a saying, which I can use even more literally than he meant it. He says: "Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." We look at a great man's career in full perspective, but he sees only what has gone before; he knows... | |
 | Robert Farquharson Sharp - 1900 - 566 pages
...Each age must judge beliefs for itself, in the light of its own knowledge. " Meek young men," he said, "grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to...Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books." It must not be forgotten that all this was conditioned by his implicit trust in the infallibility... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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...books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookwornj. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not asJCglated to nature ami .toe-bnmfm... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 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...that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men hi libraries when they wrote these books!} Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm". Hence... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...which Bacon, have given; forgetful that Cicer Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries whe they wrote these books! Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworn Hence the book-learned class, who value books, as sud not as related to nature and the human... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not 40 from their own sight of principles. Meek young men...instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the bookso learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the hunian constitution... | |
 | Harold Atkins Larrabee - 1928 - 212 pages
...to be said, also, against too great docility in the presence of famous names. Emerson once said: 196 "Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." The greatest profit in reading philosophy comes to him who reads actively, not passively. Choose the... | |
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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. 
