Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one...

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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