Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men (ed. 1903)


Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.