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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