 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...'jst<fvJatljot{ytCs(fv si NVWSSOHO CIHVHDIH 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. :i Yet again Emerson finds a way to redefine poetry and to express his reverence for it. Poetry is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 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... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 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.... | |
 | Gerardus van der Leeuw - 1935 - 344 pages
...on the other. lt undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilised, it is christianised, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not...Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk. No greater... | |
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