Friday, March 27, 2015

Still rings true.............................................

     Society never advances.  It recedes as fast on one side as it grows 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.  For every thing that is given, something is taken.  Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his essay Self-Reliance

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