War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.


War, in Miscellanies [1884]

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical...

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical...

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical...

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical...