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
| César Barja - 1924 - 682 páginas
...hu(*) La Voluntad. mana de un Emerson, Cadalso está a dos dedos de pensar lo mismo que él : "Socicty never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other... For every thing that is given, something is taken" (*).' Todas las cosas son buenas por un lado y malas... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 páginas
...Foreworld again. 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. y attention to include the next, and for the following...thirteen weeks, and four courses in a year. And like him amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 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,...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is njt amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. Society ac- men. The harm of the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 páginas
...improvement ot society, and no man improves^ ~~" ""Society never advallOBH: — ft RiOWles as fast 'Oh one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual...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... | |
| Everett Dean Martin - 1926 - 344 páginas
...ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better or for worse. All men preen themselves on the improvement of society and no man...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society is a wave; the wave moves forward, but the water of which it is composed does not. Whoso would... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 páginas
...Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on e improvement of society, and no man improves. Society...never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is irbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized,... | |
| Charles Carpenter Fries, James Holly Hanford, Harrison Ross Steeves - 1926 - 200 páginas
...better securing of his bread to each stockholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. . . . Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts." We must interpret such general statements... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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 - 1983 - 1196 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,...civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientif1c; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken.... | |
| Clarence J. Karier - 1986 - 492 páginas
...meliorism, nor could they look to institutional reform to usher in the golden age. As Emerson said: 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.37 Although Emerson could not help taking... | |
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