Quote#World
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated…
Quote byRalph Waldo Emerson · 1803–1882
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The American Scholar (1837), pars. 7–8.
English (original)
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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