The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind strength for the weak and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Having leveled my palace don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

By the fourth grade I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

The Peking man was a thinking being standing erect dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.