 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
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...[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... | |
 | David E. Nye - 1997 - 244 pages
...the seer 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...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,... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1999 - 260 pages
...shall not perish from the earth' (1863). people's thoughts: cf. Emerson in 'The American Scholar': 'In the degenerate state, when the victim of society,...or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking' (CWRWE 1 53). not conform: Emerson, in SR: 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist' (29 and passim).... | |
 | Gustaaf Van Cromphout - 1999 - 196 pages
...to fulfill his duties as "Man Thinking," instead of allowing himself to be reduced to the level of "a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking" (CW 1:62-63, 53). In a book produced by Man Thinking one encounters an authentic human being rather... | |
 | John J. Stuhr - 2000 - 724 pages
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 | William E. Cain - 2000 - 294 pages
...splendors and defined the duties of a new intellectual identity. The scholar, Emerson explains, is "Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim...or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking" (Essays and Lectures, 54). In Emerson's view, society victimizes persons by prescribing soul-killing... | |
 | David Fideler - 2000 - 482 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...thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.54 Emerson identifies three primary influences on the mind. These are the world of nature,... | |
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