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" 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 72
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pages
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 774 pages
...formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and bored. — Byron. Society undergoes continual change« ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, it is HcieMtific ; but this change is not amelioration. .For everything that is given something is taken....
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Moncure D. Conway: Addresses and Reprints, 1850-1907; Published and ...

Moncure Daniel Conway - 1909 - 484 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 is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 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,...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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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 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 something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What...
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Moncure D. Conway: Addresses and Reprints, 1850-1907

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,...
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

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...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

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....
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

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....
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An American Bible

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,...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

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...
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