It is one of those fables, which, out of an unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer... Nature ; Addresses and Lectures - Page 80by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 461 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1877 - 506 pages
...directs power. The old fable says, the gods divided man into men at the beginning, so that he might be helpful to himself, just as the hand was divided into fingers the better to answer its end. What the gods are fabled to have achieved by division, man successfully accomplishes by drill. Other... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as...The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime ; and there is One Man,—present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty; and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as...was divided into fingers, the better to answer its ena. The ojd fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man,—present to all... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 410 pages
...unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as...not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he 13 all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the dirided or social... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as...take the whole society to find the whole man. Man is nut a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself ; just as...only partially, or through one faculty; and that you nust take the whole society to find the whole man. , Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer,... | |
| 1925 - 702 pages
...unknown antiquity conveys an unlocked for wisdom that the gods, in the beginning divided man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself, just as the hand is divided into fingers, the better to answer its end. The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and... | |
| George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...idea was "that there is" One Man, — ^prcsenFiiiTlill particular men only partially, of _throiiglL one faculty; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man." XF present man's functions are divided and separated ; to each function is a special class. The scholar... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 pages
...unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself ; just as...is One Man, — present to all particular men only pailially, or through one faculty ; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man.... | |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883 - 428 pages
...unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as...a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man,—present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty ; and that you must take... | |
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