Representative Men
, by Emerson, Ralph Waldo- ISBN: 9780898755008 | 089875500X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/1/2001
AMONG eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers: they have nothing in their hands; they have not cultivated corn, nor made bread; they have not led out a colony, nor invented a loom. A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city-building market-going race of mankind, are the poets.