...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...

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...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 changes;...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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