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. Littell's Living Age - Página 1001848Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 páginas
...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...is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken" (E, 279). Thus "no man improves" when... | |
| Bernd Herzogenrath - 2001 - 446 páginas
...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,... | |
| Bernd Herzogenrath - 2001 - 442 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 páginas
...things are right and wrong together." The Brook Farmers hoped to get "a one end" without "an other end." "All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves." By transferring his effort to something external and material, the reformer neglects the proper field... | |
| Vlad Dimitrov - 2003 - 218 páginas
...surrender their individualities - the most valuable gifts they are endowed with. Emerson once wrote: "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration" (quoted from Emerson's essay "Self-reliance" written in 1841 and available through the... | |
| Vlad Dimitrov - 2003 - 218 páginas
...surrender their individualities - the most valuable gifts they are endowed with. Emerson once wrote: "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration" (quoted from Emerson's essay "Self-reliance" written in 1841 and available through the... | |
| Mark G. Vásquez - 2003 - 424 páginas
...is shared. A later passage mirrors this approach: Society never advances. It recedes as fast on the one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual...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... | |
| Lee Klancher - 148 páginas
...— 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,... | |
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