...makes an 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...wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their 20 own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept...

...makes an 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...books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books as such ; not as related to nature and the...

...makes an 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...their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which ["7] Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in...

...makes an outcry, if it is disparaged. 25 Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who...believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero,1 which Locke,2 1 Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman author, orator, and statesman. He...

...makes an 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 outfrom accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries...

...mere book-learning he attaches scarcely any importance. Meek young men [he contemptuously observes] grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept...Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books. Books are for nothing but to inspire. It is absurd to make fetishes out of the literature...

...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...which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given ; forgetting that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books."...

...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 men in libraries when they wrote these books." 1 The power to think, then, should be consciously encouraged in the schools. If it is not, it is not...

...makes an 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...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." — (Emerson: The American Scholar.) " It was past noon of a day brightened with the clear sunlight...

..."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...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." 10 When we sincerely find, therefore, that we cannot agree with the Past, then, says Emerson, we must...