Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.


The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. 1870)


Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.