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Caption: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907)
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R |,|,. even an important | t In t: » w -»'. I and DI tliuinsliip of intellect, ut tin g)< • i,->. Architecture rem a i m , doubtl< «S ith -acit r and ft r nl future. Then music tli'- con ing more spirit mil, nothing more M M a> "Lye" completely human, ad van pre -. boldi big & place: supplying in certain ant and quarters • uu nothing el e could supply, yet in th civilisat • day it is undeniable that, over all tie- arts, literature dominates, serves beyond all—shapes th el tractor f church and school—or, at any rate, is capable of doing so. Including the literature of science, its sc p < indeed unparall'd. There is more evident in these passag s than a belief that literature shall be a dominant farter in shaping democracy, there is a hint in the direction of what democracy means. A good many people will say of Whitman that he preaches a system that will reduce all to the same level, and that by tin creed he celebrates the tramp or the debauch is as admirable a character as the man of prudence and virtue. No so. The "good gray poet" looked about him and saw that the sacredness of the individual soul was often unheeded, and that the humbl p< son was sorely in need of a powerful ehai :.. I: is in this spirit he celebrates " t h e divin iv< a^ He does not believe that equality means equality attainment, but equality of start. I> nu.crac) sii nines the removal of arbitrary handicaps i r Q e , runner in the race of life. But men, thou 5> politically equal, are not born mentally ual ai just as there must be leaders in the polith .u' | cial spheres, so the spheres of though! and art „ raise up their captains. One caste Whn l t l willing should exist, and be aoknowledg, ,' as
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