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lm\ want . bi'fnro doparttn ( hi-ur »|>ecial t k nion\ t o f t v c n I l«\ Q and i |uisite< A» < an M |)(>tn« u- in its myriad i rsonsJitn in w rksho] . it<ii- iilict tl iu h the << lie •treeti and hou.M • f i ti< and all their main old pin ti .itt 1 life lUSl cit IHT I lil'i . \ ita I. I regular c it t with oul door tight and air ami ths, farm seem animals, field , ti , bird . sun-warmth ami free ski< or it will oertainlj dwindlo and pal We I inn t haw : rand ra s f mechanic . work people, and the >mmonaJty, (tl nl\ specilic purpose of America i on any h term I ivih >ive of no flourishing and hei i td ments f democracy in the United States, or of dem< maintaining itself al all, w ithout tin* Nature element forming a main part- to be its health-element and beauty-elem \\t— to really underlie the whole | !itics, s nity, religion and art of the new w ild. Finally the morality: "Yirtuo, ' lid Mar as Aurelius, "what is it, only a living and enthusiastic sympathy with Nature?" IVrhaps, indeed, the ef forts of the true poets, founders, religi n litera tares, all a^os, have boon, ami ever will 1 , ur time and times to come, essentially the —t bring people hack from their persi tent stravin and Bickly abstractions, to the i tlo \« i:;< 5 tli\ iiii mi inal roncrote Nation !itv I-:I mark of real litoratui .a,Ii'iu to Whitman. II.' admired Shakos] u 's his torical |'la.\ rnoi than the r< mcea I m saw in them a .'It ••!• a,||, ,u to thill I nglisl lit *»>d< I Americans to mak no nllusi tl r I '«'"• to feudalism an.I antiquity. but i Hi i thou 1111,1 '»'» • uffloienl in tho myraid In. H„> | : i l t i Stales. Mu has h admin I Old W .Id t .

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