Emerson's Power Is the Essential Measure of Right

This eastern tenet runs is riven through the writing of emerson. All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain. We must help the downtrodden, the under belly of society, the miserable. But if we find ourselves wretched ourselves, we must help ourselves first. How on earth can we hope for any one else to help us if we will not? Help yourself. There are so many proverbs that hit upon this. You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink. Give a man a fishing rod rather than a fish. Power is, in nature the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help