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By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk.
- Source
- Circles, in Essays, 1841 · Circles, p. 255
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- Internet Archive (University of California Libraries scan of the James Munroe edition)
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From the essay "Circles" in Essays, the first series (Boston: James Munroe and Co., 1841). This is the text of the 1841 first edition.