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" It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. "
Essays, First Series - Page 82
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 290 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...spirit of society. All men plume themselves on tlie improvement of society, and no man improves. 45. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...our spirit of society. 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 other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 12; Volume 76

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 pages
...however, he does. He censures the world for what it has never done, and then does the thing he censures. ' Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes ; it...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1842 - 740 pages
...however, he docs. He censures the world for what it has never done, and then does the thing he censures. ' Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gain? on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of ;i treadmill. It undergoes continual...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13

1848 - 614 pages
...to the whole truth. " All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 54

1851 - 650 pages
...instance of this backward and forward, this saying and unsaying propensity. " Society," he says, " never advances. It recedes as fast on one 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...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...to the whole truth. " All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 16

1848 - 636 pages
...to the whole truth. " All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...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...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...our spirit of society. 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 other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...our spirit of society. 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 other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes F continual changes: it...
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