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Society changes constantly but never actually improves
Drawn from what Ralph Waldo Emerson said
What Ralph Waldo Emerson actually said
- Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist and lecturer (1803 to 1882)
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains 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.
Where this was said
↗Essays, First Series (1841)gutenberg.org
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