...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...

...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...

...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,...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new...

...however, he does. 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 gains on the other. Its progress is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes ; it...

...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...

...truth it expresses — and so well expresses — bears but a small proportion to the whole truth. " All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...christianized, it is rich it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new...

...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...

...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,...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new...

...truth it expresses — and so well expresses — bears but a small proportion to the whole truth. " All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...christianized, it is rich it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new...

...truth it expresses — and so well expresses — bears but a small proportion to the whole truth. " All men plume themselves on the improvement of society,...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not ameliomum. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts...