...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...

...efficient in all respects to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Eack age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather,...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...

...arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation—the act of thought—is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt...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...

...Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their 20 own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in...believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero,0 which Locke,0 which Bacon,0 have given; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only...

...product be. But none is quite perfect. As no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, [116] so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional,...believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which ["7] Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only...

...beginning of that period were extant in the world. — LORD MACAULAY. Lord Bacon. A SORT OF THIRD ESTATE Each age, it is found, must write its own books ;...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...