 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
 | Arthur Stanwood Pier - 1907 - 264 pages
...just like an earnest, excited child. And meanwhile the quiet man, — Mere Thinker. Hear Emerson : " 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 - 1907 - 578 pages
...of 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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...of 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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...of 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... | |
 | David Graham - 1908 - 410 pages
...Miscellaneous Essays, vol. iv. p. 111. Emerson. — Emerson writes on this subject with great insight : " The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...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... | |
 | David Graham - 1908 - 410 pages
...tyrant. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of Beason, having once so opened, having once received this book,...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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1908 - 506 pages
...opened, having once received this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry if it is disparaged CQl!eges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers,...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... | |
 | 1908 - 446 pages
...it by thinkers, not by man thinking; by men of talent — that is, who start wrong; who set outfrom accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles....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... | |
 | 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 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 - 1909 - 508 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 Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young... | |
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