 | Bernd Herzogenrath - 2001 - 442 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 gams on the other. Its progress is only apparent ... It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous,... | |
 | George Kateb - 2002 - 278 pages
...the Individual. (Early Lectures, 2, p. 176) He puts his point more mildly later in "Self-Reliance": Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other, (p. 279) But his real passion is in the first statement. It is consoling that in a few societies the... | |
 | Priscilla Faith Rhodes - 2002 - 390 pages
...on selfreliance, he says that men set themselves to improve society, yet no man improves. He writes: Society never advances. It 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... | |
 | Vlad Dimitrov - 2003 - 218 pages
...surrender their individualities - the most valuable gifts they are endowed with. Emerson once wrote: "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...is scientific; but this change is not amelioration" (quoted from Emerson's essay "Self-reliance" written in 1841 and available through the world wide web... | |
 | Vlad Dimitrov - 2003 - 218 pages
...surrender their individualities - the most valuable gifts they are endowed with. Emerson once wrote: "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...is scientific; but this change is not amelioration" (quoted from Emerson's essay "Self-reliance" written in 1841 and available through the world wide web... | |
 | Lee Klancher - 148 pages
...— F. Scmt Fitzgerald, This Siifc of Paradise Black Hills, South Dakota Black Hills, South Dakota "Society never advances, It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.' — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sel/-Reliance Central Wisconsin Somerset, Wisconsin On a warm summer evening,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...Suipvaj svi( OiIm. ^ifst^qni} januofpuv 'jsiiCvssa 'Mjvmpa 'jst<fvJatljot{ytCs(fv si NVWSSOHO CIHVHDIH 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. :i... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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... | |
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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. 
