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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 pages
...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 is barbarous, it...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 - 1912 - 314 pages
...Foreworld0 again. 15 44. 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. 45. Society never advances. It recedes, as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
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| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...Foreworld again. 30 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 is... | |
| Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
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| Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...Foreworkl 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 - 1921 - 580 pages
...one side as 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 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... | |
| Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 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 aide as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes... | |
| University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 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,...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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