John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1869) was a New England poet and comic wit — of the kind much invited to be an after-dinner speaker. James Thomas Fields remains the model of such figures in that era (and so ...

In the Indian parable of “The Blind Men and the Elephant,” six blind men come across an elephant by the side of the road. To learn about the animal, each feels the animal, unknowingly touching a ...

June 28 -- To the Editor: In the ancient parable , “The Blind Men and the Elephant,” each blind man feels a different part of the elephant’s body such as the one at the side who exclaims: “The ...

In the parable “the blind men and the elephant” an elephant is surrounded by several blind men, all of whom use their sense of touch to describe what the elephant is like. In the story, each of them ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. There’s an ancient Buddhist parable about a group of blind men and an elephant, which offers ...