Essay Archive - Transcendentalism: Aphorism
Transcendentalism: Aphorism
"Don't trust with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with
more power than he has, until he has learned to use that little better.
What a hell should we make of the world if we could do what we would! Put
a button on the foil till the young fencers have learned not to put each
other's eyes out.
- Emerson
- Journals 1832
This aphorism has an extreme significance to today's society. It
explains how people should not be given too much power, whereas, it can be
used incorrectly....
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