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" In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. "
Education - Page 359
1925
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - 1915 - 488 pages
...becomes a form; the attorney, a statute-book; the mechanic, a machine; the sailor, a rope of a ship. In this distribution of functions the scholar is the...him, as Man Thinking, the theory of his office is contained. Him Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures; him the past instructs;...
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Representative Phi Beta Kappa Orations

Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 524 pages
...becomes a form; the attorney a statute-book; the mechanic a machine; the sailor a rope of the ship. In this distribution of functions the scholar is the...him, as Man Thinking, the theory of his office is contained. Him Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures; him the past instructs;...
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Southwest Review, Volumes 37-38

1952 - 1134 pages
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American Prose (1607-1865)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 pages
...becomes a form; the attorney, a statute-book; the mechanic, a machine; the sailor, a rope of the ship. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is...him, as Man Thinking, the theory of his office is contained. Hun Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures; him the past instructs;...
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American Prose: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers ...

George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 pages
...becomes a form; the attorney, a statute-book; the mechanic, a machine; the sailor, a rope of the ship. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is...him, as Man Thinking, the theory of his office is contained. Him Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures; him the past instructs;...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...becomes a form; the attorney, a statute-book; the mechanic, a machine; the sailor, a rope of a ship. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is...him, as Man Thinking, the theory of his office is contained.'- Him nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures; him the past instructs;...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...becomes a form; the attorney, a statute-book; the mechanic, a machine; the sailor, a rope of a ship. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is...state, he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, wlien the victim of society! ne tendlTto become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 29

1921 - 542 pages
...engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. ... In this distribution of functions the scholar is the...intellect In the right state he is Man Thinking," The appreciation of Emerson as a poet in this volume lags behind the enthusiasm displayed for his gentle...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 29

1921 - 604 pages
...engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. ... In this distribution of functions the scholar is the...intellect In the right state he is Man Thinking." The appreciation of Emerson as a poet in this volume lags behind the enthusiasm displayed for his gentle...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 592 pages
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