 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
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1913 - 268 pages
...Instantly the book becomes noxious. The guide is a tyrant. We sought a brother, and lo, a governor. 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... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1914 - 528 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 their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young... | |
 | Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 524 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... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 pages
...SCHOOLMEN WERE SCHOOLBOYS FIRST This probably echoes Emerson's statement 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... | |
 | Alistair Cooke - 1975 - 34 pages
...over-influence. . .the English dramatic poets have Shakespearized now for two hundred years.' So — ' 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 - 1983 - 1196 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... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 pages
...multitude, slow to open to the incursions of Reason, having once so opened, having once received [a] book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry, if it is...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... | |
 | Robert F. Sayre - 1994 - 750 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... | |
 | Pascal Covici - 1997 - 252 pages
...as embodied in books, in libraries. "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe" (79). "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... | |
 | Celia Hales-Mabry - 1997 - 252 pages
...The trend of today is not very different from the 1800s when Ralph Waldo Emerson made this comment: Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given: forgetting that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only... | |
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