 The old fable covers 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 the whole society to find the whole man.  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 72by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 372 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
...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...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
...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 its ena. The ojd fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man,—present to all... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...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...whole man. Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...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...whole man. Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...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...whole man- Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...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...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 - 1870 - 592 pages
...antiqui.'Jty, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the bejginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful :;to himself; just as the hand...whole man. Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In... | |
 | United States. Congress - 868 pages
...1837: "There is one man—present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty; and you must take the whole society to find the whole man. Man is not a farmer or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer and soldier. In... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...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...whole man. Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In... | |
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