 | Education - 1899 - 832 pages
...enabling the individual to make the best possible use of the faculties with which he is endowed. " Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer,...scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier." The service to be rendered to the State by particular parts of the machinery necessarily differs. But... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1966 - 1002 pages
...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...In the divided or social state, these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1971 - 316 pages
...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...In the divided or social state, these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 pages
...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...In the divided or social state, these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other... | |
 | Steven Watts - History - 1989 - 412 pages
...entirely within the solitude of his own heart. A I. EXIS 15 KTOCQU !•: VIL I. K Democracy in America Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer,...In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals. . . . The state of society is one in which the members have suffered... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1999 - 420 pages
...transience? Emerson had his own answer to this problem of the ultimate identity of the fluid, mutating self: Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer,...In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the point work, whilst each other... | |
 | Thomas J. Scheff - Political Science - 1990 - 231 pages
...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...In the divided or social state, these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other... | |
 | George Edgar Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 284 pages
...attack. His epitaph might well be the ideal that Emerson had stated long ago in The American Scholar: "You must take the whole society to find the whole...farmer or a professor or an engineer, but he is all." Paul A. Carter 72 Notes 1. Nathan Schachner, The Mediaeval Universities (New York: Frederick A. Stokes,... | |
 | John J. Stuhr - Philosophy - 1993 - 312 pages
...himself and a new conception of the individual human being, a new American self, and a new Emerson: Man is not a farmer, or a professor or an engineer,...scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. 8 It is intellectually astonishing to discover the echo of Emerson's "American Scholar" of 1837 and... | |
 | Robert F. Sayre - Autobiographies - 1994 - 750 pages
...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...In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other... | |
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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. Man is not a farmer, or a professor,... 
