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Caption: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907)
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when von hear him r until :IM n a to •, md-r fi .-1 at, B i thin f mental virt .• 1 \ > M ill ne 6 u Il<< it not 01 jier* a Mi if .(>u will turn i w ami th D I the wa chw rd of his creed, I > ini n i the bodvV 101 • ron4; r 1- the mil . In the first |>aj r mi tin- 1 t 1 ti plain t you fa much In* vain I tin- li : to m a k e ra( ires f the past, how much he dielil d the im porta tie f« Otic lit rary ideals into America, and j i is judgment upon his contemporary 1 nint ivuu-i. . I convinced that progn aticathms ,, oh.is pro! ibh* influence upon writers y t to come is vain, and that i will better illustrate the man I want you to see, if I tell you what he hoped would he the fruit ol the future, and the ways he thought must he walked in by those who were to follow his ideals. W h i t m a n ' s deep hopefulness was always Bowing the future with the seed of great things for his native land. Believing t h a t Democracy was to be the means, and the United States the agent for the r rmin and salvation of the world from the destroying complexity of feudal castes and superstitions he believ* 1 t h a t Democracy could not be properly won to t h e earth until it should be properly hymn* 1 in tl 4> writings of some mighty primal hard. I Su\ that. what finally and only is to make our western world a nationality superior to any hith r known and outtopping the past, must be vigorous, vet nn' suspected literatures, perfect personalities ami < j . ologies, original, transeendantal, and t»xpr <in (what, in highest sense, are not yet express',! at all? Democracy and the modern." "Our I'umlumont./i want today in the llniied States, with closest' plest reference to present conditions, and to the •/" 126
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