 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 - 1848 - 384 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 - 1849 - 270 pages
...our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on ihe improvement of society, and no man improves. Society...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparenl, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pages
...once'." " I do" suspect' liim-not' withstand" ing." "ft can"not be done'." EXAMPLES OF THE SIXTH STAUE. Society - never - advances. It recedes - as fast -...- on the other. It undergoes - continual - changes ; but - this change - is not - amelioration. For everything - that is given - something - is taken.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no map improves. 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1852 - 274 pages
...work and its destiny done, and a sublimer system prepared to take its place. Emerson somewhere says, " 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...loolj abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, nd no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one as it gains on the other. It undergoes continu/al changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 388 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,... | |
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