 | César Barja - 1924 - 682 pages
...hu(*) La Voluntad. mana de un Emerson, Cadalso está a dos dedos de pensar lo mismo que él : "Socicty never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other... For every thing that is given, something is taken" (*).' Todas las cosas son buenas por un lado y malas... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. lear of spots. Proceeding thus to the last, I could...thirteen weeks, and four courses in a year. And like him everything that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 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...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is njt amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. Society ac- men. The harm of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...improvement ot society, and no man improves^ ~~" ""Society never advallOBH: — ft RiOWles as fast 'Oh one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What... | |
 | Charles Carpenter Fries, James Holly Hanford, Harrison Ross Steeves - 1926 - 200 pages
...better securing of his bread to each stockholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. . . . Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts." We must interpret such general statements... | |
 | Everett Dean Martin - 1926 - 344 pages
...for better or for worse. All men preen 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. Society is a wave; the wave moves forward, but the water of which it is composed does not. Whoso would... | |
 | 1861 - 884 pages
...purchased by a corresponding physical decay. This alarm has had its best statement from Emerson. " Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. ... What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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...civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientif1c; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken.... | |
 | Clarence J. Karier - 1986 - 492 pages
...meliorism, nor could they look to institutional reform to usher in the golden age. As Emerson said: Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken.37 Although Emerson could not help taking sides on certain... | |
 | W. M. Verhoeven - 1992 - 292 pages
...heard about the wooden nutmegs and bass-wood pumpkin seeds of Connecticut" (125). 5 Emerson writes: "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...scientific; but this change is not amelioration." "Self-Reliance" may have been the source not only of Melville's skeptical view of progress but also... | |
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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. 
