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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 every thing that is given something is taken. "
Littell's Living Age - Page 100
1848
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 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, and no man improves. I Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual...
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Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 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, and no man improves. 1 Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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....
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Essays, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 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,...on the other. It undergoes continual changes ; it ia barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...Forevvorld again. 1 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 undergoes continual changes : it...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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...
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Emerson Year Book: Selections for Every Day in the Year from the Essays of ...

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...
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Essays: First Series

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 :...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

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...
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Literary Interpretations, Or, A Guide to the Teaching and Reading of ...

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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