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 every thing that is given something is taken. The Living Age ... - Página 1001848Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 páginas
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 páginas
...our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on ihe improvement of society, and no man improves. Society...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparenl, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 311 páginas
...once'." " I do" suspect' liim-not' withstand" ing." "ft can"not be done'." EXAMPLES OF THE SIXTH STAUE. Society - never - advances. It recedes - as fast -...- on the other. It undergoes - continual - changes ; but - this change - is not - amelioration. For everything - that is given - something - is taken.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849
...abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no map 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 páginas
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 páginas
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1852 - 256 páginas
...work and its destiny done, and a sublimer system prepared to take its place. Emerson somewhere says, " Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 333 páginas
...loolj abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, nd no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one as it gains on the other. It undergoes continu/al changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 370 páginas
...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,... | |
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