 | 1838 - 536 strani
...orator says, " No men are now perfect. Each is part only of a man, and in this distribution of the functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking." " Him nature solicits, with all her placid, all her monitory pictures. Him the past instructs. Him... | |
 | 1840 - 532 strani
...tradesman scarce gives an ideal value to his work, but is ridden by the routine of his craft, and his soul is subject to dollars. The priest becomes a form ; the attorney a statute book ; the mechanic a machine ; the sailor a rope of a ship." Considering education more directly... | |
 | 1844 - 452 strani
...strut about, so many walking monsters, — a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. The priest becomes a form, the attorney a statute-book,...mechanic a machine, the sailor a rope of the ship." As a consequence of this, also, work becomes uninteresting and odious. After we have become thoroughly... | |
 | 1844 - 460 strani
...strut about, so many walking monsters, — a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. The priest becomes a form, the attorney a statute-book,...mechanic a machine, the sailor a rope of the ship." As a consequence of this, also, work becomes uninteresting and odious. After we have become thoroughly... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 strani
...farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work, but is ridden by the routine of his craft, and the soul...; the mechanic, a machine ; the sailor, a rope of a ship. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 strani
...farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work, but is ridden by the routine of his craft, and the soul...statutebook ; the mechanic, a machine; the sailor, a rope of a ship. In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the whole theory of his office is contained. Him Nature... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 strani
...farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work, but is ridden by the routine of his craft, and the soul...; the mechanic, a machine ; the sailor, a rope of a ship. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated . intellect. In the right state,... | |
 | John William Donaldson - 1850 - 732 strani
...farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work, but is ridden by the routine of his craft, and the soul...; the mechanic, a machine ; the sailor, a rope of a ship." It was for this reason that the clear-headed Greeks denied the name of education (-¡ratafia)... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 strani
...farmer, instead of iVf an on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work, but is ridden by the routine of his craft, and the soul...is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he id, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 strani
...farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work, but is ridden by the routine of his craft, and the soul...; the mechanic, a machine ; the sailor, a rope of a ship. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state,... | |
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... planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman... 
