Representative Men
, by Emerson, Ralph Waldo- ISBN: 9781419144462 | 1419144464
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/17/2004
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.