| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 312 pages
...such harm as they do. These are traits, and measures, and modes ; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...— no, but the kind of man the country turns out. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone. I see the immense... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 316 pages
...such harm as they do. These are traits, and measures, and modes ; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...— no, but the kind of man the country turns out. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone. I see the immense... | |
| Prosper de Haulleville - 1878 - 350 pages
...improvement only which distinguishes a wealthy and powerful nation from savages, or barbarians." "The true test of civilization," says Emerson, "is not the census,...— no, but the kind of man the country turns out. " "The superstition/' says Herbert Spencer, "that good behavior is to be forthwith produced by lessons... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 pages
...such harm as they do. These are traits, and measures, and modes ; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...— no, but the kind of man the country turns out. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone. I see the immense... | |
| Caroline Bigelow Le Row - 1882 - 222 pages
...divinities honor and promote, justice, love, freedom, knowledge and utility. The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...— no, but the kind of man the country turns out AST. A study of admirable works of art sharpens our perceptions of the beauties of Nature; a certain... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...such harm as they do. These are traits, and measures, and modes ; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...— no, but the kind of man the country turns out. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone. I see the immense... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 328 pages
...and such harm as they do. These are traits and measures and modes ; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...— no, but the kind of man the country turns out. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone. I see the immense... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 328 pages
...and such harm as they do. These are traits and measures and modes ; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...— no, but the kind of man the country turns out. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone. I see the immense... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1882 - 412 pages
...Shoshone Indians is, " The earth hears me. The sun hears me. Shall I lie ?" The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of a man the country turns out. — Emerson. The whole wide ether is the eagle's sway : The whole earth... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 558 pages
...such harm as they do. These are traits, and measures, and modes; and the true test of civilisation is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, — no, but tho kind of man tho country turns out I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth... | |
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