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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. Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters - Pagina 26 di Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 300 pagine Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
...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...