 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 21by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...men of talcntljhat.isj wio. start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from tjieir own~sig1it of principles. 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... | |
 | 1921 - 744 pages
...this every man contains within himself, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn." "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... | |
 | 1881 - 302 pages
...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... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 402 pages
...liberated himself from all authorities. In his first lecture at Harvard University (1837) he said : " 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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 pages
...so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be. But none is quite perfect. As no airpump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 390 pages
...the product be. But none is quite perfect. As no airpump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, Bo neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional,...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 328 pages
...vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from bis book, or write a book of pure thought, that shall...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 pages
...generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises » grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the...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... | |
 | RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883 - 428 pages
...generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises % grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the...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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