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. Too much power in the wrong hands can reflect evil, and one who fi