![]() ![]() The Fourth reached out an eager hand, And felt about the knee. ![]() Different renditions in Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sufism. ![]() The Third approached the animal, And happening to take The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake: I see, quoth he, the Elephant Is very like a snake! Poem by John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) titled: The Blind Men and the Elephant. ![]() The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried, Ho! what have we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear! The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall! Saxe was writing in an era that witnessed an explosion in the sciences as a culture began to. Each blind man and each assertion is allowed its moment each is allowed to stand. It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind Each blind man is given the opportunity to expound of his particular insightno observation is challenged in the poem, and no one wise man is exposed as a fool. ![]()
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