 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
 | Garry J. Moes - 1998 - 340 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,...amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance In every country large numbers of people are suffering privations... | |
 | S.E. Hobfoll - 2004 - 316 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, it is scientific; but this change is not an amelioration, (p. 80) Moreover, Emerson associated creativity and nonconformity with isolationism.... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - 1999 - 1020 pages
...side as it gains on the other", so schrieb Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841) in seinem essay "Selfreliance". "For everything that is given, something is taken....Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts .... The civilised man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet .... The harm of the improved... | |
 | Susan Harris Smith, Melanie Dawson - 2000 - 488 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." [Emerson, in the essay on Self-Reliance.] To be close to nature is, then, to preserve certain primeval... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 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" (E, 279). Thus "no man improves" when the improvement... | |
 | Bernd Herzogenrath - 2001 - 446 pages
...gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent ... It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich,...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For ever.' thing that is given, something is taken" (970). The last sentence is particularly appropriate... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lewis Perry - 2002 - 356 pages
...its lurking opposite."25 He asserted, in some respects, the superiority of the life of the civilized American "with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket" to that of the primitive hunter of New Zealand.26 Yet Plato's philosophy and Plutarch's biographies... | |
 | Mark G. Vásquez - 2003 - 424 pages
...as fast on the 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. What... | |
 | Vlad Dimitrov - 2003 - 218 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,...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... | |
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