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. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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