 | ...matters in the following passage : — " The true tost of civilization is not the censns, nor the sizo of cities, nor the crops— no, but the kind of men the country turns out. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone. I Eee the immense... | |
 | California. Legislature - California - 1883
...The late Mr. ^Dierson said : " The truest test of civilization is not the census, nor ğue size of cities, nor the crops. No, but the kind of men the country lQrns out." " The kind of men the country turns out " must depend, 1 in this country, largely upon... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1892
...needs of our nature. " The true test of civilization is not the census, not the size of cities, not the crops — no, but the kind of men the country turns out." So Emerson, who never said anything better ; and he said many things excellently well. The real subject... | |
 | Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia - 1898
...member in either house. "The true test of civilzation is not the census, not the size of cities, not the crops; no, but the kind of men the country turns out." — LYMAN J. GAGE, Secretary of the Treasury. "Ideas are arrows, and the body is the bow that sends... | |
 | 1897
...himself. Emerson has well put it: "The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops ; no, but the kind of men the country turns out. " If there is any lesson writ large upon the page of history, it is this : That a society is doomed... | |
 | 1897
...of our own Emerson : ' The true test of civilization is not the census, not the size of cities, not the crops, no, but the kind of men the country turns out.' " Friday, July 30. CATHOLICS AND TEMPERANCE WORK. BY REV. JM CLEAKY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. A large... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1899
...labor. Our American sage, Emerson, has said " The truest test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops ; no, but the kind of men the country turns out." There are several kinds of farmers. First there is the man who lives anywhere and farms the farm in... | |
 | Education - 1899
...sunshine without.— Carlyle. THE true test of-civilization is not the census, not the size of cities, not the crops; no, but the kind of men the country turns out. — Lyman J. Gage. DIVINE IMMANENCE. BY LYMAN ABBOTT. IF I am asked why I believe in this universal... | |
 | Madison Clinton Peters - Marriage - 1905 - 192 pages
...HOW TO MAKE A MAN OF YOUR BOY. EMERSON says: " The truest test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops; no, but the kind of men the country turns out." " Manhood overtops all titles." A man is rich or poor, not according to what he has, but what he is.... | |
 | Marion Catharine Neprud - 1920 - 106 pages
...MEANS ЮН TRAINING THE MEN OP TOMORROW. "The true test of oiTilization is not the census, nor the aize of the cities, nor the crops, - no, but the kind of men the country turns out." Emerson. Because the public school system is a definitely organized system it naturally leads one to... | |
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' is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops; no, but the kind of men the country turns out. 
