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    Six blind men were asked to determine what an elephant looks like by feeling different parts of its body. The first felt the side and said the elephant was like a wall. The second felt the tusk and said it was like a spear. The third felt the trunk and said it was like a snake. The fourth felt the knee and said it was like a tree. The fifth felt the ear and said it was like a fan. The sixth felt the tail and said it was like a rope. Each man argued he was right based on the limited experience of touching one part, though none experienced the entire elephant.

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    Six blind men were asked to determine what an elephant looks like by feeling different parts of its body. The first felt the side and said the elephant was like a wall. The second felt the tusk and said it was like a spear. The third felt the trunk and said it was like a snake. The fourth felt the knee and said it was like a tree. The fifth felt the ear and said it was like a fan. The sixth felt the tail and said it was like a rope. Each man argued he was right based on the limited experience of touching one part, though none experienced the entire elephant.

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    The Blind Men And The Elephant - A Poem - Author John Godfrey Saxe

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    Six blind men were asked to determine what an elephant looks like by feeling different parts of its body. The first felt the side and said the elephant was like a wall. The second felt the tusk and said it was like a spear. The third felt the trunk and said it was like a snake. The fourth felt the knee and said it was like a tree. The fifth felt the ear and said it was like a fan. The sixth felt the tail and said it was like a rope. Each man argued he was right based on the limited experience of touching one part, though none experienced the entire elephant.

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    Six blind men were asked to determine what an elephant looks like by feeling different parts of its body. The first felt the side and said the elephant was like a wall. The second felt the tusk and said it was like a spear. The third felt the trunk and said it was like a snake. The fourth felt the knee and said it was like a tree. The fifth felt the ear and said it was like a fan. The sixth felt the tail and said it was like a rope. Each man argued he was right based on the limited experience of touching one part, though none experienced the entire elephant.

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    Sheaves of Grain

    Genesis.37:7

    The Blind Men And The Elephant.


    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.

    The First approach'd 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!"

    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 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!"
    The Fourth reached out his eager hand,
    And felt about the knee.
    "What most this wondrous beast is like
    Is mighty plain," quoth he,
    "'Tis clear enough the Elephant
    Is very like a tree!"

    The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,


    Said: "Even the blindest man
    Can tell what this resembles most;
    Deny the fact who can,
    This marvel of an Elephant
    Is very like a fan!"
    The Sixth no sooner had begun
    About the beast to grope,
    Then, seizing on the swinging tail
    That fell within his scope,
    "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
    Is very like a rope!"

    And so these men of Indostan


    Disputed loud and long,
    Each in his own opinion
    Exceeding stiff and strong,
    Though each was partly in the right,
    And all were in the wrong!

    So oft in theologic wars,


    The disputants, I ween,
    Rail on in utter ignorance
    Of what each other mean,
    And prate about an Elephant
    Not one of them has seen!

    Author
    John Godfrey Saxe

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