 | New England Society in the City of Brooklyn - 1895 - 418 pagine
...loudness of the call to her scanty banquet. "The true test of civilization," as Emerson has said, " is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man the country produces." Human greatness has always toughened its fibre by wrestling... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 488 pagine
...of the poorest souls that ever went out of it. " The truest test of civilization," says Emerson, " is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...; no, but the kind of man the country turns out." Character is success, and there is no other. The passion for wealth often stifles every noble aspiration.... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 490 pagine
...of the poorest souls that ever went out of it. " The truest test of civilization," says Emerson, " is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...; no, but the kind of man the country turns out." Character is success, and there is no other. The passion for wealth often stifles every noble aspiration.... | |
 | 1897 - 586 pagine
...The real subject of progress is man himself. Emerson has well put it: "The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops ; no, but the kind of men the country turns out. " If there is any lesson writ large upon the page of history, it is this... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 pagine
...overtops all titles." The truest test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, n0i the crops; no, but the kind of man the country turns out. — EVERSON. Hew the block off, and get out the man. — POPE. Eternity alone will reveal to the human... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - 1901 - 730 pagine
...characters of great men are the dowry of a nation. Emerson has said that "the truest test of civilization" is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of men the country turns out. And another writer, in defining character, says "There is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 330 pagine
...and such harm as they do.^v hese are traits and measures and modes ; and e true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...kind of man the country turns out. I see the vast adantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone. I see the immense material prosperity,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 294 pagine
...: they make the earth wholesome. Uses of Great Men January lil'lmi '"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. January surtmt HPALENT alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; Goethe January... | |
 | Joseph Alfred Conwell - 1903 - 332 pagine
...in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Confucius. The truest test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...crops ; no, but the kind of man the country turns out. — Emerson. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pagine
...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...in the massive architecture of cities ; California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York to be replied architecturally alongshore from Canada to Cuba,... | |
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These are traits and measures and modes; and the true test ' of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, — no, but the kind of man the country turns out. 
