 | 1840 - 532 páginas
...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 - 460 páginas
...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, the 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... | |
 | 1844 - 452 páginas
...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, the 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 páginas
...still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and...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 solicits... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 páginas
...The 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...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, he is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 páginas
...The 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...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, he is,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 páginas
...The 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...; the mechanic, a machine ; the sailor, a rope of the ship. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 410 páginas
...ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of l\lan on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an...; the mechanic, a machine ; the sailor, a rope of the ship. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 páginas
...The 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...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, he is,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 páginas
...farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work, tut is ridden by the routine of his craft, and the soul...statutebook ; the mechanic, a machine; the sailor, a rope of the ship. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state,... | |
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Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The 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... 
