 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances.*8 It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What... | |
 | John Horne - 1904 - 172 pages
...; what is left is clearly doomed." — WJ A comb. Does Society "Society never advances. Advance? jt recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.... | |
 | Mary Minerva Barrows - 1905 - 208 pages
...as we think of them only as fit for the copy-book there is not much use in us. Theodore Roosevelt, For everything that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the wellclad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man 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 *3* It undergoes continual changes:... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry - 1906 - 252 pages
...with his theory, for i 1 . All Stoics were Stoics. a 1 . In Christendom where is there a Christian ? " Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...Publishing Co. EMERSON BIRTHDAY BOOK I must do is all that concerns me ; not what the people think. gOCIETY 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. T AWOKE this morning with devout thanksgiving... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual 15 changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ;... | |
 | 1907 - 656 pages
...of the educational public? Will it be as Ralph Waldo Emerson says in his essay on Self-reliance : " 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 tread-mill. For everything that is given something... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribe», the bores and bored. — Byron. Society ensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.— Tryon Edwards. The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet ; he has a fine Geneva watch,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...undergoes continual changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilised, it is christianised, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration.... | |
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes : it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is... 
