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" Instantly the book becomes noxious; the guide is a tyrant. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of Reason, having once so opened, having once received this book, stands upon it and makes an outcry if it is disparaged.... "
The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 21
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pages
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to cotemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...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...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...corrupts into worship of his statue. Instantly, the book becomes noxious : the guide is a tyrant. . I The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude,...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...
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The Tuftonian, Volume 21

1894 - 286 pages
...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 their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...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 their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be. But none is quite perfect. As no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither...believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bauon, have given ; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young...
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Orations, Lectures and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...tyrant. We sought a brother, and lo! a governor. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, always slow to open to the incursions of Reason, having once...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...
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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...guide is a tyrant. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions _ of Reason, having once so opened, having once received...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...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled, the hook is perfect ; as love of the hero corrupts into worship...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...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled, the hook is perfect ; as love of the hero corrupts into worship...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...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 336 pages
...thinkers, not by Man Thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accept ed dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...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...
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