The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.


Nature; addresses, and lectures (ed. 1849)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe...

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe...

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe...

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe...