Ameer Carter on Ralph Waldo Emerson In progress and change Learn more about Ameer > The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out. Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude, 1870 Great Ideas at ChiDM, 2018. Photo: Chris Mendoza, Dozaster. #2018: Design Museum, Out of the Container#2022: Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design April 20, 2018