Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.


Emerson: Selected Essays (ed. Penguin, 1982) - ISBN: 9781101221808


Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out...

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out...

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out...

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out...