CIVILIZATION

France says it is art.

England says it is conquest.

America says it is energy.

Italy says it is song.

Russia says it is work.

Japan says it is imitation.

Satan says it is his private "movie."

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.—Mazzini.

The truest test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops; no, but the kind of man the country turns out.—Emerson.