 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.  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 73by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
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 | Richard R. O'Keefe - 1995 - 252 pages
...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. {Complete Works 1:82-84) Although Edward Waldo Emerson glossed the source of this passage as Aristophanes'... | |
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...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... | |
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