Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. 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. Essays: First Series - Página 72por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 páginas
...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 barbarous,...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 páginas
...a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilised, it is christianised, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 páginas
...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 barbarous,...For everything that is given something is taken.' — Essay ii., p. 85. ' Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed... | |
| 1842 - 740 páginas
...one side as it gain? on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of ;i treadmill. It undergoes continual changes ; it is barbarous,...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is n»t amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken.' — Essay ii., p. 85. ' Society... | |
| 1848 - 614 páginas
...improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes...and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his... | |
| 1851 - 650 páginas
...side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a tread-mill." " For everything that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts." " The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported on crutches,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 páginas
...improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes;...scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 páginas
...improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes...and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his... | |
| 1848 - 636 páginas
...improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes...is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not ameliomum. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 páginas
...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 barbarous,...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What... | |
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