Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.


Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life (ed. 1872)


How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; ...

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; ...

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; ...

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; ...