...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...