Crossword-Solution: UPSETTERS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Three words I will tell you, of meaning full: The lips of the many shout them; Yet were they born of no sect or school, The heart only knows about them: That man is of everything worth bereft Who in those three words has no faith left: _Man_ is born free--and is free alway Even were he born in fetters! Let not the mob’s cry lead you astray, Or the misdeeds of frantic upsetters: Fear not the slave when he breaks his bands; Fear nothing from any free man’s hands.

Things is not going to be upset here for want of putting upsetters out of the way; there's been better men than you quietly sided for less.

They are upsetters of unstable equilibria, and the resultant effect depends infinitely more on the nature of the materials upset than on that of the particular stimulus which joggles them down.

When I was superintendent of the catalogue of Harvard University library, I made the class "Eccentric Literature" under which to group such books,--the lucubrations of circle-squarers, angle-trisectors, inventors of perpetual motion, devisers of recipes for living forever without dying, crazy interpreters of Daniel and the Apocalypse, upsetters of the undulatory theory of light, the Bacon-Shakespeare lunatics, etc.; a dismal procession of long-eared bipeds, with very raucous bray.

She felt instantly, by instinct, that these two women had come out there especially as her enemies, as upsetters of her happiness, as opponents of her one great hope in life; and she knew that she could not fight her battle with them face to face.