...harvests. "The scholar," says Emerson, "is in the right state Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking." The parrot of other men's thinking! The parrot — of other men's thinking. These words have a peculiar...

...of society, he tends o become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other nen's thinking. t In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the theory of his )ffice is contained. Him Nature solicits with all her placid, ill her monitory pictures; him the past...

...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,...thinking. In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the whole theory of his office is contained. Him nature solicits, with all her placid, all her monitory...

...queries regarding those needs. Discuss the History and the Future of Information Technology Man thinking; him nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory...pictures; him the past instructs; him the future invites. Emerson The history of computing is amazingly short, even including its "prehistory"— Hollerith's...

...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,...thinking. In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the whole theory of his office is contained. Him nature solicits, with all her placid, all her monitory...

...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,...or still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the book-learned class who value books,...

...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. {Complete Works 1:82-84) Although Edward Waldo Emerson glossed the source of this passage as Aristophanes'...

...condition of society, the scholar was "Man Thinking," but in society's degenerate state the scholar became "a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking." The task, then, was to regenerate scholarly work as a fully human social activity. This began, Emerson...

...[in society], the scholar is delegated intellect," Emerson writes. "In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. ... In this view of him, as Man Thinking,...pictures; him the past instructs; him the future invites" (Essays, 54). On the other hand, in "The American Scholar" Emerson makes clear reference to the specific...

...for the rest of society, serving as its "delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society,...still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking." In the Transcendentalist view, a child was less likely to be such a parrot, and as Twain later showed,...