THE FIVE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT - AN ANCIENT FABLE One day, a man leading an elephant came upon five blind men sitting by the side of the road. As he passed, one of the blind men called out: “Who is it on the road?” “It is I and my elephant,” said the man. An elephant had never come down the road. “Pray, stop so that we may discover what an elephant is like!” said one of the blind men. The elephant driver did as he was asked. The blind men gathered around the elephant. The first man, touching the elephant’s great side, said: “Oh, now I know what an elephant is like! It is like a huge wall!” The second man, touching the elephant’s trunk, said: “No, no – an elephant is like a great snake!” “You are both wrong,” said the third man, wrapping his arms around one of the elephant’s legs, “An elephant is very much like a tree trunk!” Touching one of the elephant’s tusks, the fourth man said: “How could you possibly think such things? I tell you, this elephant is like a branch of a tree!” The fifth man, holding the elephant’s tail, said: “Let me settle this for us all – an elephant is most like a brush.” And the five blind men set to arguing as to who was right. Continuing on his way, the elephant driver said to himself, “In some respects, each of those men is right. But it is only if they listen to each other that they will come to discover what an elephant is truly
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