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
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...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, and no man improves. I Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...Fore-world 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.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...good. January Seventeenth. v January Eighteenth. Insist on yourself; never imitate. January Nineteenth. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...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 - 1894 - 334 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,...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It under-, goes continual changes :... | |
| 1896 - 374 pages
...Foreworld1 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... | |
| 1896 - 234 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... | |
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