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" The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man, — present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man. "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures - Page 82
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
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Traversing the Democratic Borders of the Essay

Cristina Kirklighter - 2002 - 176 pages
...scholars that patterned themselves as teachers that actively engaged with a community of occupations: "You must take the whole society to find the whole...farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all" (53). He sees the parceling of these occupations that prevents interoccupational interactions as an...
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The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920

Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 340 pages
...directly to the alienating implications of the new market society. "Man," he told the scholarly society, "is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all." Of necessity, he said, "in the divided or social state, these functions are parceled out to individuals."...
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Minding American Education: Reclaiming the Tradition of Active Learning

Martin Bickman - 2003 - 193 pages
...hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end. . . . there is One Man,—present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty;...In the divided or social state, these functions are parceled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other...
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Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-reliance

Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...human: "The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man, — present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty;...must take the whole society to find the whole man." With harsh polemics, he then chastised the academy for failing to produce such an integrated scholar...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy

George Willis Cooke - 2003 - 408 pages
...movement. The subject was The American Scholar; and its idea was "that there is One Man, — present in all particular men only partially, or through one faculty...must take the whole society to find the whole man." At present man's functions are divided and separated ; to each function is a special class. The scholar...
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A Dream Too Wild: A Book of Meditations from the Writings of Ralph Waldo ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...FATE The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man,—present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty;...In the divided or social state, these functions are parceled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other...
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Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue

Philip Cafaro - 2010 - 288 pages
...our ideals. And we may, through experience, come to better understand the full extent of human life: "Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer,...priest and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier."4 In the current state of society, we parcel these functions out to different individuals....
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Using Technology in Teaching

William Clyde, Andrew Delohery - 2005 - 258 pages
...its end The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime, that there is One Man, - present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty,...In the divided or social state, these functions are parceled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other...
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The American Classics: A Personal Essay

Denis Donoghue - 2008 - 303 pages
...the fable to sustain "a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man, — pres28 ent to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty;...farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all." He is "priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier." In the ''''divided or social...
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Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic ...

Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 pages
...divided into fingers, the better to answer its end . . . that there is One Man, — present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty;...must take the whole society to find the whole man. (p. 53) Both the form of this "old fable, which, out of an unknown antiquity, conveyjs] an unlocked...
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