 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
 | Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society, Brighton - 1898 - 644 pages
...THURSDAY, DECEMBER IITH. — anfc 1ts lltesions. Part II. THE ARGUMENT from the HISTORY OF HUMANITY. " 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... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 498 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,...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 - 1898 - 144 pages
...make statues like those of Phidias or write poems like those of Dante ? so does our spirit of society. /All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. J 45. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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,...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 - 1900 - 454 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 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 everything that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and nosoo man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as...is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not 505 amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...spirit_gf soci.ety. All men plume themselves on the improvement of societv, and no man improves. Socjetv never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as...is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For^cverv thing that is given something jg__taJ£pn Society acquires new arts and loses... | |
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