The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.


The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1883)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a ...

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a ...

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a ...

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a ...