 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
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...matters not what kind of a watch he has, but rhetorically there is a vast difference. He speaks of " the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American,...watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket." It would have been just as true to the thought to have said the civilized man, but there would have... | |
 | Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society, Brighton - 1898 - 644 pages
...THE ARGUMENT from the HISTORY OF HUMANITY. " 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. . . . If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad axe, and in a day or two the flesh... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 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,...^For everything that is given, something is taken, j Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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; it is barbarous, it is civilised, it is christianised, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...improvement of societv, and no man improves. Socjetv 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. For^cverv thing that is given something jg__taJ£pn Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...improvement of society, and nosoo man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes...is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not 505 amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 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; it is barbarous, it is civilised, it is christianised, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 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,...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...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;...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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