 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
 | John Horne - 1904 - 172 pages
...Society "Society never advances. Advance? jt 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. . . . Compare the health of the well-clad, reading, thinking American and the naked New Zealander,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers, of a treadmill *3* 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... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry - 1906 - 252 pages
...the selection from Emerson, already referred to, the tendency to repeat an idea several times: — but this change is not amelioration. For everything...Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. Society is a wave," etc. Fox is said to have declared that to the multitude one argument stated in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual 15 changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is...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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribe», the bores and bored. — Byron. Society ensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.— Tryon Edwards. The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet ; he has a fine Geneva watch,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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