 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 474 pagine
...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. 1 I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone. I see the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 498 pagine
...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...crops, — no, but the kind of man the country turns out.1 I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone. I see... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1904 - 312 pagine
...of fate : you will wonder at your own improvement." — Richter. " 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." — Emerson. 76 a la carte' mar'ma lade ta'ble d'hote... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1905 - 112 pagine
...of fate : you will wonder at your own improvement." — Richter. " 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." — Emerson. 76 a la carte' mar'ma lade ta'ble d'hote... | |
 | Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - 1906 - 292 pagine
...good citizenship in the public schools. III. THE MAKING OF CITIZENS.* " 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." — EMERSON. THEEE is, perhaps, no other subject that is of more constant, universal interest to men... | |
 | Webster Perit Huntington - 1906 - 664 pagine
...religious culture?" Says Emerson: "The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of our cities, nor the crops, — no, but the kind of man the country turns out." Whatever of national prosperity we have gained, whatever of social happiness we have enjoyed, and whatever... | |
 | Nixon Waterman - 1906 - 170 pagine
...— ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The truest test of civilization is not the census, not the size of cities, not the crops; no, but the kind of man the country turns out. — EMERSON. Inherited wealth is an unmitigated curse when divorced from culture. — CHARLES WILLIAM... | |
 | James Carmichael Smith - 1908 - 264 pagine
...the Eternal life of Humanity. " The true test of civilisation is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — NO, BUT THE KIND OF MAN THE COUNTRY TURNS OUT." The claims are (1) that Entrepreneurs or Employers and their Employees should participate equally in... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1908 - 314 pagine
...of fate : you will wonder at your own improvement." — Richter. " 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." — Emerson. 76 a la carte' mar'ma lade ta'ble d'hote... | |
 | National Society for the Study of Education - 1908 - 856 pagine
...of the youth of this generation be too erudite? If, as Emerson says, "the true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man the country turns out," then as men and women largely responsible for this civilization,... | |
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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. 
