...directs power. The old fable says, the gods divided man into men at the beginning, so that he might be helpful to himself, just as the hand was divided into fingers the better to answer its end. What the gods are fabled to have achieved by division, man successfully accomplishes by drill. Other...

...hopes. It is one of those fables, which, out of an unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into...The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime ; and there is One Man,—present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty; and...

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...hopes. It is one of those fables, which, out of an unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into...only partially, or through one faculty; and that you nust take the whole society to find the whole man. , Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer,...

...passage. It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity conveys an unlocked for wisdom that the gods, in the beginning divided man into men,...might be more helpful to himself, just as the hand is divided into fingers, the better to answer its end. The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and...

...idea was "that there is" One Man, — ^prcsenFiiiTlill particular men only partially, of _throiiglL one faculty; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man." XF present man's functions are divided and separated ; to each function is a special class. The scholar...

...his hopes. It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into...is One Man, — present to all particular men only pailially, or through one faculty ; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man....

...his hopes. It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into...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...

...his hopes. It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into...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...

...Land of the Idea. Emerson somewhere employs a beautiful fable of antiquity, pregnant with rich truth, that "the Gods in the beginning divided Man into men...divided into fingers the better to answer its end." In our day Man has been broken into smaller pieces than ever before to make the men of the generation,...