 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 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 - 1876 - 302 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 - 1876 - 302 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 - 1876 - 300 pages
...improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one Hide as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes...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 - 1883 - 648 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost....line, The younger Golden Lips or mines, Taylor, the everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 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.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 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...on the other. It undergoes continual changes ; it ia barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 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 - 1893 - 168 pages
...good. January Seventeenth. v January Eighteenth. Insist on yourself; never imitate. January Nineteenth. 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. January... | |
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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. 
