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. For everything that is given something is taken. Essays, First Series - Page 82by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1907 - 656 pages
...of the educational public? Will it be as Ralph Waldo Emerson says in his essay on Self-reliance : " Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other." Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a tread-mill. For everything that is given something... | |
| 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. everything that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. The... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...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 - 772 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
...all who think with him. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...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... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1909 - 478 pages
...all who think with him. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast 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... | |
| 1909 - 540 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. 45. Society never advances. It recedes, as fast on one...gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes ; 20 it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. s Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For e\erything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses 10 old instincts.... | |
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