 Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. 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.  Essays: First Series - Page 76by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 322 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Vlad Dimitrov - 2003 - 218 pages
...wrote: "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized,...is scientific; but this change is not amelioration" (quoted from Emerson's essay "Self-reliance" written in 1841 and available through the world wide web... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pages
...improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized,...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 - 2005 - 264 pages
...CIHVHDIH Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized,...Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. :i Yet again Emerson finds a way to redefine poetry and to express his reverence for it. Poetry is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized,...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... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 pages
...improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized,...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... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized,...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.... | |
 | Gerardus van der Leeuw - 1935 - 344 pages
...on the other. lt undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilised, it is christianised, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not...Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk. No greater... | |
 | John Edwin Wells - 1928 - 380 pages
...seem no less imperative and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden. 19. Society undergoes continual changes — it is barbarous, it is civilized,...is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but these changes do not necessarily produce improvement. 20. She cherished no petty resentments; she never... | |
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