 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
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...efficient in all respects to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Eack age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather,...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 - 512 pages
...arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation—the act of thought—is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt...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 - 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... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1911 - 376 pages
...product be. But none is quite perfect. As no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, [116] so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional,...believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which ["7] Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 pages
...beginning of that period were extant in the world. — LORD MACAULAY. Lord Bacon. A SORT OF THIRD ESTATE Each age, it is found, must write its own books ;...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 - 1911 - 148 pages
...opened, having once received, this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry, if it is disparaged. 25 Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it...inquire into the original certainty and extent of human knowledge*1 His most famous work is his Essay on the Human Understanding. which Bacon,1 have given,... | |
 | 1911 - 448 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... | |
 | 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 the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given ; forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young... | |
 | 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 the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given ; forgetting that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 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...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... | |
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