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)

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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