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 - Стр. 1001848Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - Страниц: 168
...spirit of society. All men plume themselves on tlie improvement of society, and no man improves. 45. Society never advances. It recedes as fast 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - Страниц: 396
...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,...recedes as fast 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - Страниц: 324
...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,...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... | |
| 1842 - Страниц: 740
...however, he docs. He censures the world for what it has never done, and then does the thing he censures. ' Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gain? on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of ;i treadmill. It undergoes continual... | |
| 1848 - Страниц: 614
...ourselves (albeit little given to the too sanguine mood), we have more hope here than our author has expressed. We by no means subscribe to the following...it 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... | |
| 1851 - Страниц: 650
...instance of this backward and forward, this saying and unsaying propensity. " Society," he says, " never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a tread-mill." " For everything that is given something... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - Страниц: 354
...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... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - Страниц: 610
...ourselves (albeit little given to the'too sanguine mood), we have more hope here than our author has expressed. We by no means subscribe to the following...it 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - Страниц: 400
...Fore-world again. IV. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes F continual changes: it... | |
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