As our religion, our education, our art look abroad, so does 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. It undergoes... Emerson - Page 79by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...simple and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart, and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad,...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1848 - 614 pages
...truth it expresses — and so well expresses — bears but a small proportion to the whole truth. " All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...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... | |
| 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...simple and noble regions of thy_life, obey thy heart, and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad,...undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...simple and nohle regions of thy life, obey thy heart, and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad,...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...simple and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart, and thou shall reproduce the Fore-world again. IV. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad,...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... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...truth it expresses — and so well expresses — bears but a small proportion to the whole truth. " All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...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... | |
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