 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Eeligion, 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.... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 pages
...Foreworld again. 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 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 undergoes continual changes : it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 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... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 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... | |
 | Maude Radford Warren - 1903 - 408 pages
...necessary to explain the general by means of the particular. " Society never advances," says Emerson. " It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other." He elucidates this general statement by the fol. . . , „ . . • Example. lowing particulars : "... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 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. Society never advances.*8 It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes;... | |
 | John Horne - 1904 - 172 pages
...; what is left is clearly doomed." — WJ A comb. Does Society "Society never advances. Advance? jt recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 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 *3* It undergoes continual changes:... | |
 | P. Irāman̲ātan̲ - 1906 - 54 pages
...well said: "In Greece and Rome, every Stoic was a stoic, but in Christendom where is the Christian? All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves." What confused notions prevail in Western minds when they speak of Progress, Freedom and Civilization!... | |
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