 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 rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration.  Essays: First Series - Page 72by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1909 - 478 pages
...changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this is not amelioration. For everything that is given,...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old impulses. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...advances. It recedes, as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes ; 20 it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized,...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everthing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...improvement of society, and no man improves. s Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For e\erything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses 10 old instincts.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...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 barbarous, it...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given some- 5 thing is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 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...amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken s» Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 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 civilized, it is christianized, RALPH WALDO EMERSON 323 it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 pages
...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;...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is njt amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. Society ac- men. The harm of the... | |
 | Louis Wann - 1926 - 564 pages
...need we copy the contrast between the well-clad, readin.tr. Doric or the Gothic model ? Beauty, con- writing, thinking American, with a watch. a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid pocket, and the naked New Zealander, series of celestial... | |
 | John Edwin Wells - 1928 - 376 pages
...some day seem no less imperative and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden. 19. Society undergoes continual changes — it is barbarous, it...is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but these changes do not necessarily produce improvement. 20. She cherished no petty resentments; she never... | |
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