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krastian · 11.01.2006, 01:00 AM

Emerson-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 men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcende...amscholar.html

LIFE IS OUR DICTIONARY.

11.01.2006, 01:00 AM	#3
krastian invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 7,808	Emerson-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 men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcende...amscholar.html LIFE IS OUR DICTIONARY. __________________ Confusion is next and next after that is the Truth.
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