 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 every thing that is given something is taken.  Littell's Living Age - Page 1001848Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 380 pages
...purchased by a corresponding physical decay. This alarm has had its best statement from Emerson. " Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. .... What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...the other. It undergoes continual changes ; it is barl barous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken, "^society acquires new arts, and loses... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one Hide as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the...blent both in his line, The younger Golden Lips or min amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 pages
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilised, it is christianised, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration.... | |
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