 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 páginas
...'jsiiCvssa 'Mjvmpa 'jst<fvJatljot{ytCs(fv si NVWSSOHO CIHVHDIH Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual...Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. :i Yet again Emerson finds a way to redefine poetry and to express his reverence for it. Poetry is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 páginas
...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... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 páginas
...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.... | |
 | Gerardus van der Leeuw - 1935 - 344 páginas
...on the other. lt undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilised, it is christianised, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not...Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk. No greater... | |
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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. 
