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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. "
The American Scholar in Professional Life - Page 39
by George Gluyas Mercer - 1889
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Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 316 pages
...for such joy as they give 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. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning...
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Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 286 pages
...for such joy as they give 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. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning...
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Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 304 pages
...such harm as they do. These are traits, and measures, and modes ; and the true test of civilisation is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning...
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Protestant and Catholic Civilization Compared: The Future of Catholic Peoples

Prosper de Haulleville - 1878 - 350 pages
...wealthy and powerful nation from savages, or barbarians." "The true test of civilization," says Emerson, "is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out. " "The superstition/' says Herbert Spencer, "that...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 pages
...for such joy as they give 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. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning...
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A Practical Reader: With Exercises in Vocal Culture

Caroline Bigelow Le Row - 1882 - 222 pages
...those interests which the divinities honor and promote, justice, love, freedom, knowledge and utility. 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 AST. A study of admirable works of art sharpens our...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Society and solitude

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 328 pages
...high for such joy as they give 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. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning...
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...for such joy as they give 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. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning...
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 328 pages
...high for such joy as they give 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. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning...
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Specimen Days & Collect

Walt Whitman - 1882 - 412 pages
...form of oath among the 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. The whole wide ether is the eagle's...
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