{"id":962,"date":"2005-05-17T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2005\/05\/17\/962\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T23:00:28","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T03:00:28","slug":"962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2005\/05\/17\/962\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"+2\"><b>The Blind Men and the Elephant<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"+1\">by John Godfrey Saxe<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"0\"><font size=\"3\">[American poet John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) based the following poem on a fable which was told in India many years ago.]<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"+1\"><\/p>\n<ul>It was six men of Indostan<br \/>To learning much inclined,<br \/>Who went to see the Elephant<br \/>(Though all of them were blind),<br \/>That each by observation<br \/>Might satisfy his mind<\/p>\n<p>The First approached the Elephant,<br \/>And happening to fall<br \/>Against his broad and sturdy side,<br \/>At once began to bawl:<br \/>\u201cGod bless me! but the Elephant<br \/>Is very like a wall!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Second, feeling of the tusk,<br \/>Cried, \u201cHo! what have we here<br \/>So very round and smooth and sharp?<br \/>To me \u2019tis mighty clear<br \/>This wonder of an Elephant<br \/>Is very like a spear!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Third approached the animal,<br \/>And happening to take<br \/>The squirming trunk within his hands,<br \/>Thus boldly up and spake:<br \/>\u201cI see,\u201d quoth he, \u201cthe Elephant<br \/>Is very like a snake!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Fourth reached out an eager hand,<br \/>And felt about the knee.<br \/>\u201cWhat most this wondrous beast is like<br \/>Is mighty plain,\u201d quoth he;<br \/>\u201c \u2018Tis clear enough the Elephant<br \/>Is very like a tree!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,<br \/>Said: \u201cE\u2019en the blindest man<br \/>Can tell what this resembles most;<br \/>Deny the fact who can<br \/>This marvel of an Elephant<br \/>Is very like a fan!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sixth no sooner had begun<br \/>About the beast to grope,<br \/>Than, seizing on the swinging tail<br \/>That fell within his scope,<br \/>\u201cI see,\u201d quoth he, \u201cthe Elephant<br \/>Is very like a rope!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so these men of Indostan<br \/>Disputed loud and long,<br \/>Each in his own opinion<br \/>Exceeding stiff and strong,<br \/>Though each was partly in the right,<br \/>And all were in the wrong!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<ul>Moral:<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So oft in theologic wars,<br \/>The disputants, I ween,<br \/>Rail on in utter ignorance<br \/>Of what each other mean,<br \/>And prate about an Elephant<br \/>Not one of them has seen!<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blind Men and the Elephant by John Godfrey Saxe [American poet John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) based the following poem on a fable which was told in India many years ago.] It was six men of IndostanTo learning much inclined,Who went to see the Elephant(Though all of them were blind),That each by observationMight satisfy his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}