 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
 | Garry J. Moes - 1998 - 340 pages
...conclusions on the lines below each paragraph. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes;...amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance In every country large numbers of people are suffering privations... | |
 | S.E. Hobfoll - 2004 - 316 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...is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not an amelioration, (p. 80) Moreover, Emerson associated creativity and nonconformity with isolationism.... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - 1999 - 1020 pages
...side as it gains on the other", so schrieb Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841) in seinem essay "Selfreliance". "For everything that is given, something is taken....Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts .... The civilised man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet .... The harm of the improved... | |
 | John J. Stuhr - 2000 - 724 pages
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 | Susan Harris Smith, Melanie Dawson - 2000 - 488 pages
...sophistication into which it is soon to fall. "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes;...Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts." [Emerson, in the essay on Self-Reliance.] To be close to nature is, then, to preserve certain primeval... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...responsibilities offers no possible gain for either side: "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 every thing that is given something is taken" (E, 279). Thus "no man improves" when the improvement... | |
 | Bernd Herzogenrath - 2001 - 446 pages
...advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent ... It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For ever.' thing that is given, something is taken" (970). The last sentence is particularly appropriate... | |
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