 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
 | Edward Abbey - 1988 - 242 pages
...than any preaching. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.... | |
 | W. M. Verhoeven - 1992 - 292 pages
...heard about the wooden nutmegs and bass-wood pumpkin seeds of Connecticut" (125). 5 Emerson writes: "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration." "Self-Reliance" may have been the source not only of Melville's skeptical view of progress... | |
 | Donald Capps - 1993 - 198 pages
...particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal" (SR, 49). Moreover, "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. For everything that is given, some is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts" (SR,... | |
 | 1861 - 792 pages
...purchased by a corresponding physical decay. This alarm has had its best statement from Emerson. " Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. . . . What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil,... | |
 | Jan Cooper - 1996 - 130 pages
...will always look on me as his protege." "And a difficult one," teased Emerson. "You see, Goldstein, society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other." "Are you saying that growth must happen on a personal level? And peace?" It was the spirit of Vivekananda... | |
 | Garry J. Moes - 1998 - 340 pages
...worldview and attitude of each of the authors. Write your conclusions on the lines below each paragraph. 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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance... | |
 | 1888 - 536 pages
...intellect of man is expanded, the bodily powers should decline. Society never advances, says Emerson; it recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the...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... | |
 | S.E. Hobfoll - 2004 - 316 pages
...began to reveal a hostility toward society. Wrote Emerson in his famous essay SelJ Relianre (1841). Society never advances. It 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... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - 1999 - 1020 pages
...formuliert: der Fortschritt auf einem Gebiet ist Ursache des Rückschritts auf einem anderen Gebiet. "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other", so schrieb Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841) in seinem essay "Selfreliance". "For everything that is given,... | |
 | Susan Harris Smith, Melanie Dawson - 2000 - 488 pages
...right balance between the barbarism behind it and the sophistication into which it is soon to fall. "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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