| Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 pagine
...wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame. "The truest test of civilization," says Emerson, "is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops; no, but the kind of men the country turns out." Montaigne kept his castle gates unbarred during the wars of the Fronde,... | |
| Walt Whitman - 2007 - 404 pagine
...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. 20 The whole wide ether is the eagle's sway: The whole earth... | |
| 1862 - 830 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 re-piled architecturally along-shore from Canada to... | |
| Mervin James Curl - 1919 - 334 pagine
...individual. The true test of civilization is, not the crops, not the size of cities, not the census, — no, but the kind of man the country turns out. I see...wealth piled in the massive architecture of cities: Calif orniaquartz,mountains dumped down in New York to be repiled architecturally alongshore from Canada... | |
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