 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. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes...  Emerson - Page 79by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 pages
...the Foreworld," if we cannot 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...in the same pitch of voice, for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature. Dwell up there in the simple and noble regions of thy life, obey...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... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...and noble regions of thy life, obey 495 thy heart, and thou shalt reproduce the Fore world again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad,...plume themselves on the improvement of society, and nosoo man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...simple and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit_gf soci.ety. All men plume themselves on the improvement of societv, and no man improves. Socjetv... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 pages
...in the same pitch of voice, for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature. Dwell up there in the simple and noble regions of thy life, obey...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 - 1902 - 66 pages
...simple and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart, and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad,...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... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 pages
...simple and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart, and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad,...undergoes continual changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 pages
...simple and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart, and thou shalt reproduce the Fore world again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad,...undergoes continual changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration.... | |
 | Maude Radford Warren - 1903 - 408 pages
...necessary to explain the general by means of the particular. " Society never advances," says Emerson. " It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other." He elucidates this general statement by the fol. . . , „ . . • Example. lowing particulars : "... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...simple and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart, and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad,...improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances.*8 It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes;... | |
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