 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
 | Bernd Herzogenrath - 2001 - 442 pages
...advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gams on the other. Its progress is only apparent ... It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is nch. it is scientific: but this change is not amelioration For every thing that is given, something... | |
 | Priscilla Faith Rhodes - 2002 - 390 pages
...improves. He writes: Society never advances. It 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 ... Man has his carriage, but loses the use of his feet. He has his fine Geneva watch, but loses his... | |
 | David Harris - 2000 - 664 pages
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 | Mark G. Vásquez - 2003 - 424 pages
...shared. A later passage mirrors this approach: Society never advances. It recedes as fast on the 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. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What... | |
 | Vlad Dimitrov - 2003 - 218 pages
...they are endowed with. Emerson once wrote: "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes;...is scientific; but this change is not amelioration" (quoted from Emerson's essay "Self-reliance" written in 1841 and available through the world wide web... | |
 | Vlad Dimitrov - 2003 - 218 pages
...they are endowed with. Emerson once wrote: "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes;...is scientific; but this change is not amelioration" (quoted from Emerson's essay "Self-reliance" written in 1841 and available through the world wide web... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - 2003 - 424 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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;...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... | |
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