 Society acquires new arts 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 pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear,...  The Cambridge Review - Page 2461888Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires...the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | 1848 - 636 pages
...is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not ameliomum. For everything that is given, something is taken....the health of the two men, and you shall see that this aboriginal strength the white man has lost. If the traveller tell ue truly, strike the savage... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires...the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires...the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...All men plume 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...the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided...the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in Jus pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided...sleep under ! But compare the health of the two men, and-Jfou shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken. Society acquires...compare the health of the two men and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided...the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided...the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
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