 | Donald Capps - 1993 - 198 pages
...particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal" (SR, 49). Moreover, "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. For everything that is given, some is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts" (SR,... | |
 | 1861 - 792 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,... | |
 | Jan Cooper - 1996 - 130 pages
...will always look on me as his protege." "And a difficult one," teased Emerson. "You see, Goldstein, society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other." "Are you saying that growth must happen on a personal level? And peace?" It was the spirit of Vivekananda... | |
 | Garry J. Moes - 1998 - 340 pages
...worldview and attitude of each of the authors. Write your conclusions on the lines below each paragraph. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance In every country... | |
 | 1888 - 536 pages
...intellect of man is expanded, the bodily powers should decline. Society never advances, says Emerson; it recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What... | |
 | S.E. Hobfoll - 2004 - 316 pages
...began to reveal a hostility toward society. Wrote Emerson in his famous essay SelJ Relianre (1841). 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... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - 1999 - 1020 pages
...formuliert: der Fortschritt auf einem Gebiet ist Ursache des Rückschritts auf einem anderen Gebiet. "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other", so schrieb Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841) in seinem essay "Selfreliance". "For everything that is given,... | |
 | Susan Harris Smith, Melanie Dawson - 2000 - 488 pages
...right balance between the barbarism behind it and the sophistication into which it is soon to fall. "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."... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...influences between a person and his or her responsibilities offers no possible gain for either side: "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...For every thing that is given something is taken" (E, 279). Thus "no man improves" when the improvement of everyone is the aim of men. Conformity is... | |
 | Bernd Herzogenrath - 2001 - 446 pages
...Again, the kind of perspicacity which Peckinpah articulates through images, Emerson conveys in writing: "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent ... It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized,... | |
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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. 
