...reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts, as expressions of one law... By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled, by being seen to be extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision. Beware...

...transcendentalism constituted both its power and its danger. In his copy of Emerson, James had underlined: "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet." James clearly approved Emerson's celebration of the effective power of thought. But, after quoting...

...read it? HARDING: No. FORD: Read it. You should. "To be great is to be misunderstood." "Beware when God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk". EDISON: A great thinker thinks. That doesn't mean he changes anything. FORD: That's not so EDISON:...

...great thinker who arrives upon this earth as the center of tremendous powers. "Beware," says Emerson, "when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at 30 risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a city, and no man knows what is safe, or...

...step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts, as expressions of one law .... We can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision."14 Circles of expanding vision reconcile facts which had seemed discordant, fragmentary arcs...

...prefer a parachute to a bungee cord if your weight is a factor. Lecture 38 : Fractional Relaxation "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet." - Emerson Following the approach from the last lecture we propose to generalize yet another dynamical...

...that at least none of us can wrong it without paying a God-awful price. In "Circles," Emerson went on: "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk." We may add that even equality is among those things. The new science questions X = Y. In the larger...

...(see p. xxv). 110. In its entirety Nietzsche's citation from "Circles" reads: "Beware," says Emerson, "when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at a risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe,...

...reckoned the respective heads of discordant schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle Platonizes. By going one step farther back in thought, discordant...so far back as to preclude a still higher vision. ("Circles," pp. 406-407). Furthermore, Emerson's effort to claim superiority for thinking over doing...

...Darwin and the Darwinian revolution are concerned. As Ralph Waldo Emerson warned his contemporaries: "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet." Modern historians of science tend to believe that all ideas and theories are largely socially determined,...