For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked... The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 264by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich,...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... | |
| 1848 - 636 pages
...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 ameliomum. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old... | |
| Stephen Henry Ward - 1849 - 248 pages
...the American writer * " Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea," by Xavier H. de Hell. Emerson : " For everything that is given something is taken. Society...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
| Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pages
...recedes - as fast - on one side as - it gains - on the other. It undergoes - continual - changes ; but - this change - is not - amelioration. For everything...acquires - new arts - and - loses - old - instincts. The civilized - man - has built - a coach, - but - has lost - the use - of his feet. He is supported... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich,...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 - 1849 - 270 pages
...only apparenl, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it is barbarous, il is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...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,...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...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,...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1852 - 274 pages
...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,...Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He has a fine Geneva watch,... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...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,...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
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