| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it is barbarous,...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilised, it is christianised, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 pages
...one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes ; it is barbarous,...For everything that is given something is taken.' — Essay ii., p. 85. ' Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed... | |
| 1842 - 740 pages
...one side as it gain? on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of ;i treadmill. It undergoes continual changes ; it is barbarous,...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is n»t amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken.' — Essay ii., p. 85. ' Society... | |
| 1848 - 614 pages
...themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual...and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his... | |
| 1851 - 650 pages
...side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a tread-mill." " For everything that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts." " The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported on crutches,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual...and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his... | |
| 1848 - 636 pages
...themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual...is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not ameliomum. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it is barbarous,...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What... | |
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