 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1911 - 462 pages
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 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 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 is... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...one aide 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 everything that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What... | |
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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. 
