 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 - 100 psl.1848Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 psl.
...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 - 396 psl.
...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 - 324 psl.
...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 - 740 psl.
...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 - 614 psl.
...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 - 650 psl.
...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 - 354 psl.
...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 - 610 psl.
...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 - 400 psl.
...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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