The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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Page 298
... reform is individual and imperious . We are reformers in spring and summer , in autumn and winter we stand by the old ; reformers in the morning , conservers at night . Reform is affirmative , conservatism negative ; conservatism goes ...
... reform is individual and imperious . We are reformers in spring and summer , in autumn and winter we stand by the old ; reformers in the morning , conservers at night . Reform is affirmative , conservatism negative ; conservatism goes ...
Page 298
... reform is individual and imperious . We are reformers in spring and summer , in autumn and winter we stand by the old ; reformers in the morning , conservers at night . Reform is affirmative , conservatism neg- ative ; conservatism goes ...
... reform is individual and imperious . We are reformers in spring and summer , in autumn and winter we stand by the old ; reformers in the morning , conservers at night . Reform is affirmative , conservatism neg- ative ; conservatism goes ...
Page 299
... Reform has no gratitude , no prudence , no husbandry . It makes a great difference to your figure and to your thought whether your foot is advancing or re- ceding . Conservatism never puts the foot for- ward ; in the hour when it does ...
... Reform has no gratitude , no prudence , no husbandry . It makes a great difference to your figure and to your thought whether your foot is advancing or re- ceding . Conservatism never puts the foot for- ward ; in the hour when it does ...
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