Mind Contorting Syntax

After reading and discussing about Emerson's piece, I feel like the concept is there for us to grap, but Emerson's word choice and writing is too filled with fluff which hides the purpose of the paper. Emerson uses this paper to address the scholarly community, and to explain their purpose in the system called man kind. Man kind is made to work as a system that involves every person and profession, and if one branch fails to work in sync with the others, destroys the whole system. Compared to the human body, Emerson says the scholars of the world act as the brain of the system, collecting and implementing knowledge for the benefit of the rest of the "body". But as the scholars sit around and think and ponder, they stop actual implementing their knowledge and isolate themselves from the rest of the "body", which causes problems. I'm not totally sure what else to blog about, but I'm positive that if we take the rest of this work and try to break it down and word in a way that is more similar to the way we are used to, we can grasp the concepts well