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
| 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... | |
| 1907 - 656 pages
...is only apparent, like the workers of a tread-mill. For everything that is given something is taken. What a contrast between the wellclad, reading, writing,...and a bill of exchange in his pocket and the naked Xew Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual 15 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 - 1908 - 324 pages
...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...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... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...mighty tribe», the bores and bored. — Byron. Society undergoes continual changes ; it is barbarous, resent.— Tryon Edwards. The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet ; he has a fine Geneva watch,... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 pages
...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...Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the uso of hi* feet ; he has a fine Geneva watch,... | |
| 1909 - 540 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 - 1909 - 512 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1909 - 478 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 is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and... | |
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