Douglass Scott on Ralph Waldo Emerson – Great Ideas of Humanity — Design Museum of Chicago

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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.

Douglass Scott
Society and Solitude, 1870

Great Ideas at ChiDM, 2018. Photo: Chris Mendoza, Dozaster.

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2018: Design Museum, Out of the Container 2019: Anderson University 2019: Judson University 2022: Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design