Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 84
... 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 the divided or social state these 84 THE AMERICAN ...
... 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 the divided or social state these 84 THE AMERICAN ...
Page 85
... society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk , and strut about so many walking mon- sters , a good finger , a neck , a stomach , an el- bow , but never a man . - Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing ...
... society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk , and strut about so many walking mon- sters , a good finger , a neck , a stomach , an el- bow , but never a man . - Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing ...
Page 86
... society , he tends to become a mere thinker , or still worse , the parrot of other men's thinking . ory In this view of him , as Man Thinking , the the- of his office is contained . Him Nature solicits with all her placid , all her ...
... society , he tends to become a mere thinker , or still worse , the parrot of other men's thinking . ory In this view of him , as Man Thinking , the the- of his office is contained . Him Nature solicits with all her placid , all her ...
Page 101
... society , he takes the cross of making his own , and , of course , the self - accusation , the faint heart , the frequent uncertainty and loss of time , which are the nettles and tangling vines in - the way of the self - relying and ...
... society , he takes the cross of making his own , and , of course , the self - accusation , the faint heart , the frequent uncertainty and loss of time , which are the nettles and tangling vines in - the way of the self - relying and ...
Page 102
... society , and especially to educated society . For all this loss and scorn , what offset ? He is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature . He is one who raises himself from private considerations and ...
... society , and especially to educated society . For all this loss and scorn , what offset ? He is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature . He is one who raises himself from private considerations and ...
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