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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true test...
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The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.