...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, it is civilized, it is christianized, RALPH WALDO EMERSON 323 it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything...

...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 It undergoes continual...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...

...need we copy the contrast between the well-clad, readin.tr. Doric or the Gothic model ? Beauty, con- writing, thinking American, with a watch. a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid pocket, and the naked New Zealander, series of celestial...

...some day seem no less imperative and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden. 19. Society undergoes continual changes — it is barbarous, it...is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but these changes do not necessarily produce improvement. 20. She cherished no petty resentments; she never...

...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,...American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange [January, in his pocket, and the naked Ncw-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and...

...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. It undergoes continual...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...

...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. It undergoes continual...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....

...institutional reform to usher in the golden age. As Emerson said: Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual...amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken.37 Although Emerson could not help taking sides on certain pressing issues of his day, such as...

...Write your conclusions on the lines below each paragraph. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual...amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance In every country large numbers of people are suffering privations...

...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 barbarous, it...is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not an amelioration, (p. 80) Moreover, Emerson associated creativity and nonconformity with isolationism....