 | James L. Machor - 1987 - 292 pagine
...a part of Emerson's ideas about urbanization. Just as central are affirmations like the following: I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning...wealth piled in the massive architecture of cities. . . . [W]hen I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land, and see... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1968 - 156 pagine
...pollutants a year and its 1 billion pounds of garbage. But, as Emerson wrote, "the true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out." We have yet to show that we can blend quality with... | |
 | T. Gregory Garvey - 2001 - 310 pagine
...cultivate character, strength, and compassion in its individual 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" (Atlantic 506; w 7:31). Character and moral direction, not wealth and power, mark the achievements... | |
 | Martin H. Manser - 2001 - 524 pagine
...which is not based on the great principles of Christianity. Tryon Edwards The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out. Ralph Waldo Emerson To seek the society of others and... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pagine
...huts, it is still the greatest city in the world." — Walt Whitman "The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...— no, but the kind of man the country turns out." — "Cities give not the human senses room enough." — "The civilized man has built a coach, but has... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 228 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...of the temperate zone. I see the immense material prosperity,—towns on towns, states on states, and wealth piled in the massive architecture of cities,... | |
 | Dan Chiras - 2005 - 244 pagine
...Brad and Rodd Lancaster. The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, not the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out — Ralph Waldo Emerson 8 ENSURING SUCCESS When my children were quite young, I was determined not... | |
 | Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 pagine
..."Civilization," Emerson wrote, "The true 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." A century earlier, in 1770, Samuel Johnson told James Boswell that "a decent provision for the poor... | |
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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. 
