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emerson-american-729	Ralph Waldo Emerson	The American Scholar			.epub	application/epub+zip	7862	397	76	It is one of those fables, which, out of an unknown antiquity, convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said. Time shall teach him, that the scholar loses no hour which the man lives.	./cache/emerson-american-729.epub	./txt/emerson-american-729.txt