Ralph Waldo Emerson's Quote - Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new mac

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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