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" War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man. On its own scale, on the virtues it loves, it endures no counterfeit, but... "
Texas Review - Page 22
1916
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy

George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...to it. It does actually forward the culture of man, but is a temporary and preparatory state. It " educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects...collision in critical moments that man measures man." It is the subject of all history, has been the principal employment of the most conspicuous men, the...
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Works, Volume 11

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pages
...temporary and preparatory state, aud^does actively forward the_culture of man. <TWar educates the'senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift ~l and close collision in critical moments that man measures man. On its own scale, on the virtues...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...disorganizes, but it is to re-organize. 5721 Emerson : Lectures and Biographical Sketches. The Man of Letters. War educates the senses, calls into action the will,...collision in critical moments that man measures man. 5722 Emerson: Lecture, Boston, Mass., March, 1838. War. 1 hate war, for it spoils conversation. 5723...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 11

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 674 pages
...learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state, and does actively forward the culture of man. War educates the senses, calls into action the will,...falls into the place its specific gravity assigns it.1 It presently finds the value of good sense and of foresight, and Ulysses takes rank next to Achilles....
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 726 pages
...learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state, and does actively forward the culture of man. War educates the senses, calls into action the will,...falls into the place its specific gravity assigns it.1 It presently finds the value of good sense and of foresight, and Ulysses takes rank next to Achilles....
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The American Journal of Clinical Medicine, Volume 25

1918 - 990 pages
...time, enclose such a little short, concise article yourself, and see if we won't print it. That's all. War educates the senses, calls into action the will,...swift and close collision in critical moments that — Emerson. man measures man. THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH In our Miscellaneous department this month we...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: how to Know Him

Samuel McChord Crothers - 1921 - 260 pages
...action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision at critical moments that man measures man. On its own scale, on the virtues it lives, it endures no counterfeit, but shakes the whole society until every atom falls into the place...
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Essays of the Past and Present

Warner Taylor - 1927 - 668 pages
...he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory Uate, and does actively forward the culture of man. War educates the senses, calls into action the will,...whole society until every atom falls into the place /ts specific gravity assigns it. It presently finds the value of good sense and of foresight, and Ulysses...
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The Bookman: A Literary Journal, Volume 45

1917 - 852 pages
...American philosopher, the quotation being from his address on "War" delivered in Boston, in March, 1838: "War educates the senses, calls into action the will,...collision in critical moments that man measures man." It is a most inopportune time to attempt to apologise for Nietzsche. For Emerson, this from his same...
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Emerson and the Climates of History

Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 pages
..."War," delivered to the Boston Peace Society: "War educates the senses, calls into action the will . . . brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man" (W, 11: 152)." For Emerson, the outbreak of war, the first southern attack on the Union, transformed...
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