...outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong,...accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bauon, have given ; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when...

...the very measure of their commanding truth to wean their inheritors from their own essential virtue. "Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it...Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books." Emerson left many things unsaid, indeed. Disciplined himself in a long intellectual tradition,...

...outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. B >oks are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong,...their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up iu libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have...

...outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accept ed dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing...

...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 when they...

...liberated himself from all authorities. In his first lecture at Harvard University (1837) he said : " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." In this spirit he gathered up the literature of the past into himself, but it was transmuted into his...

...outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong,...books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bo/ok. worm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value bookw as such; not as related to nature and the...

...liberated himself from all authorities. In his first lecture at Harvard University (1837) he said: "Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." In this spirit he gathered up the literature of the past into himself, but it was transmuted into his...

...is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thi nking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from thcir own sight of principles. [Mcek young men grow up in librarics,] belicving it thcir duty to. aecept...

...outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accep^ dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing...