Re: If god exists, what created god? :The answer
Herb Huston (huston@access1.digex.net)
4 Sep 1995 11:58:37 -0400
In article <42dsqo$ecr@usenet.rpi.edu>, Philip Sells <sellsp@rpi.edu> wrote:
}>In article <42cqmh$n0a@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>, venugop@phoenix.cs.uga.edu says...
}>> You are right; it is like the six blind men who tried to
}>> describe the elephant.
}
}Say, does anyone have an authoritative citation for this parable/fable? I
}require it for an essay I'm wanting to write. (That just in passing, since the
}opportunity to ask for such a thing is now here. :) )
It's a poem by John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) called _The Blind Men and the
Elephant_. Here's the first stanza:
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.
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-- Herb Huston
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