{"id":28,"date":"2010-11-08T21:22:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T21:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/?p=28"},"modified":"2016-06-07T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:24:23","slug":"emerson-weaver-becomes-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"EMERSON : Weaver becomes the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davemckay.co.uk\/philosophy\/emerson\/emerson.php?name=emerson.07.society.07\">http:\/\/www.davemckay.co.uk\/philosophy\/emerson\/emerson.php?name=emerson.07.society.07<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE:<br \/>\nCHAPTER VII. WORKS AND DAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many facts concur to show that we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, \u00c2\u00a0photo-graphs, \u00c2\u00a0balloons or astronomy.&#8217; These tools have some questionable properties. They are reagents. Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous. A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.2 A man has a reputation, and is no longer free, but must respect that. A man makes a picture or a book, and, if it succeeds, &#8216;t is often the worse for him. I saw a brave man the other day, hitherto as free as the hawk or the fox of the wilderness, constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals and mounted birds.<br \/>\nIt was easy to see that he was amusing himself with making pretty links for his own limbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.davemckay.co.uk\/philosophy\/emerson\/emerson.php?name=emerson.07.society.07 SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE: CHAPTER VII. WORKS AND DAYS Many facts concur to show that we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, \u00c2\u00a0photo-graphs, \u00c2\u00a0balloons or astronomy.&#8217; These tools have some questionable properties. They are reagents. Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}