“ Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles (1841). copy citation
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|---|---|
| Source | Circles |
| Topic | age disease |
| Date | 1841 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | in "Essays: First Series" |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays:_First_Series/Circles |
Context
“for that which is made instructs how to make a better.
Thus there is no sleep, no pause, no preservation, but all things renew, germinate, and spring. Why should we import rags and relics into the new hour? Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one. We call it by many names, — fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity, and crime; they are all forms of old age; they are rest, conservatism, appropriation, inertia, not newness, not the way onward.”
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