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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
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Essays and English Traits

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...
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

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...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 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, and no man improves. s Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual...
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Readings from American Literature: A Textbook for Schools and Colleges

Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

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...
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...Foreworld again. <I 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 so* <I Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress...
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Types of the Essay

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...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

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...
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Types of the Essay

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...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

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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