 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...spirit_gf soci.ety. All men plume themselves on the improvement of societv, and no man improves. Socjetv never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as...is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For^cverv thing that is given something jg__taJ£pn Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and nosoo man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not 505 amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 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 - 1902 - 66 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 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... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 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... | |
 | Maude Radford Warren - 1903 - 408 pages
...necessary to explain the general by means of the particular. " Society never advances," says Emerson. " It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other." He elucidates this general statement by the fol. . . , „ . . • Example. lowing particulars : "... | |
 | John Horne - 1904 - 172 pages
...; what is left is clearly doomed." — WJ A comb. Does Society "Society never advances. Advance? jt 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.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 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 *3* It undergoes continual changes:... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry - 1906 - 252 pages
...with his theory, for i 1 . All Stoics were Stoics. a 1 . In Christendom where is there a Christian ? " 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... | |
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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. 
