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- p. iii, line 1AMERICA does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other […]
- p. iii, line 2[…] or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the […]
- p. iii, line 3[…] produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness . . . is not […]
- p. iii, line 37[…] be bankrupt while corn grows from the ground or the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish or […]
- p. iii, line 38[…] from the ground or the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish or men beget children upon women […]
- p. iii, line 42[…] genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or […]
- p. iii, line 43[…] its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors . . . but always […]
- p. iii, line 44[…] churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors . . . but always most in the common people. Their manners […]
- p. iii, line 51[…] attachment to freedom—their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean—the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state […]
- p. iii, line 66The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity […]
- p. iii, line 80[…] the sum of the profitable uses of individuals or states and of present action and grandeur and of the […]
- p. iii, line 89[…] less than the small theatre of the antique or the aimless sleepwalking of the middle ages! The pride of […]
- p. iv, line 2[…] victory to enjoy the breed of fullsized men or one fullsized man unconquerable and simple […]
- p. iv, line 27[…] stretches longer he easily stretches with them north or south. He spans between them also from east to west […]
- p. iv, line 34[…] persimmon . . . . and tangles as tangled as any canebrake or swamp . . . . and forests coated with transparent ice and icicles hanging […]
- p. iv, line 38[…] mountains . . . . and pasturage sweet and free as savannah or upland or prairie . . . . with flights and songs and screams that […]
- p. iv, line 39[…] pasturage sweet and free as savannah or upland or prairie . . . . with flights and songs and screams that answer those […]
- p. iv, line 52[…] red aborigines—the weatherbeaten vessels entering new ports or making landings on rocky coasts—the first settlements north or […]
- p. iv, line 53[…] landings on rocky coasts—the first settlements north or south—the rapid stature and muscle—the haughty defiance of […]
- p. iv, line 79[…] it which shall never cease till it ceases or the speaking of tongues and the moving of lips cease […]
- p. iv, line 83[…] It is to be indirect and not direct or descriptive or epic. Its quality goes through these to much more. Let […]
- p. iv, line 100[…] him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. Nothing out of its place is […]
- p. iv, line 102[…] place is bad. He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is […]
- p. iv, line 111[…] study of man, the soul, immortality—federal, state or municipal government,marriage, health, freetrade, intertravel by land and sea […]
- p. v, line 9[…] blood. Whatever stagnates in the flat of custom or obedience or legislation he never stagnates. Obedience does not master […]
- p. v, line 10[…] stagnates in the flat of custom or obedience or legislation he never stagnates. Obedience does not master him, he […]
- p. v, line 28[…] does not see men and women as dreams or dots. Faith is the antiseptic of the soul . . . it pervades […]
- p. v, line 38[…] as the greatest artist. . . . . . The power to destroy or remould is freely used by him but never the power […]
- p. v, line 43[…] presence of the greatest poet conquers . . . not parleying or struggling or any prepared attempts. Now he has passed that way see […]
- p. v, line 45[…] there is not left any vestige of despair or misanthropy or cunning or exclusiveness or the ignominy of a […]
- p. v, line 46[…] not left any vestige of despair or misanthropy or cunning or exclusiveness or the ignominy of a nativity or color or delusion of […]
- p. v, line 47[…] or exclusiveness or the ignominy of a nativity or color or delusion of hell or the necessity of hell . . . . . and no man thenceforward shall be […]
- p. v, line 49[…] no man thenceforward shall be degraded for ignorance or weakness or sin […]
- p. v, line 50[…] thenceforward shall be degraded for ignorance or weakness or sin […]
- p. v, line 51The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before […]
- p. v, line 68[…] is marvellous? what is unlikely? what is impossible or baseless or vague? after you have once just opened the space of […]
- p. v, line 73[…] with electric swiftness softly and duly without confusion or jostling or jam […]
- p. v, line 93[…] The poetic quality is not marshalled in rhyme or uniformity or abstract addresses to things nor in melancholy complaints or good […]
- p. v, line 94[…] abstract addresses to things nor in melancholy complaints or good precepts, but is the life of these and much […]
- p. v, line 102[…] from them as unerringly and loosely as lilacs or roses on a bush, and take shapes as compact as […]
- p. v, line 106[…] The fluency and ornaments of the finest poems or music or orations or recitations are not independent but dependent. All beauty comes from […]
- p. v, line 111[…] the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough . . . . the fact will prevail through the […]
- p. v, line 117[…] not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. This is what youshall do: Love the […]
- p. vi, line 7[…] people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and […]
- p. vi, line 12[…] examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and […]
- p. vi, line 28[…] chance happens and which possible contingency of fortune or misfortune and persuades daily and hourly his delicious pay. What […]
- p. vi, line 30[…] daily and hourly his delicious pay. What balks or breaks others is fuel for his burning progress to contact […]
- p. vi, line 34[…] nothing to his proportions. All expected from heaven or from the highest he is rapport with in the sight […]
- p. vi, line 35[…] rapport with in the sight of the daybreak or a scene of the winter woods or the presence of […]
- p. vi, line 36[…] daybreak or a scene of the winter woods or the presence of children playing or with his arm round the neck of a man or […]
- p. vi, line 37[…] his arm round the neck of a man or woman. His love above all love has leisure and expanse […]
- p. vi, line 39[…] room ahead of himself. He is no irresolute or suspicious lover . . . he is sure . . . he scorns intervals. His experience […]
- p. vi, line 46[…] The sea is not surer of the shore or the shore of the sea than he is of the […]
- p. vi, line 49[…] fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss . . . it is inevitable as life . . . . it is exact and […]
- p. vi, line 62[…] there is not a minute of the light or dark nor an acre of the earth or sea without it—nor any direction of the sky nor […]
- p. vi, line 63[…] any direction of the sky nor any trade or employment nor any turn of events. This is the reason […]
- p. vi, line 74[…] the greatest poet brings the spirit of any or all events and passions and scenes and persons some more […]
- p. vi, line 76[…] bear on your individual character as you hear or read. To do this well is to compete with the […]
- p. vi, line 95[…] no man can tell what they are for or what is beyond . . . . he glows a moment on the extremest […]
- p. vi, line 97[…] is most wonderful in his last half-hidden smile or frown . . . by that flash of the moment of parting the […]
- p. vi, line 99[…] the one that sees it shall be encouraged or terrified afterward for many years. The greatest poet does not […]
- p. vi, line 101[…] many years. The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals . . . he knows the soul. The soul […]
- p. vi, line 114[…] than simplicity . . . . nothing ca make up for excess or for the lack of definitenessTo carry on the heave of […]
- p. vii, line 12[…] the flight of the graygull over the bay or the mettlesome action of the blood horse or the tall […]
- p. vii, line 13[…] or the mettlesome action of the blood horse or the tall leaning of sunflowers on their stalk or the […]
- p. vii, line 14[…] the tall leaning of sunflowers on their stalk or the appearance of the sun journeying through heaven or the […]
- p. vii, line 15[…] the appearance of the sun journeying through heaven or the appearance of the moon afterward with any more satisfaction […]
- p. vii, line 20[…] the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears […]
- p. vii, line 23[…] will not have in my writing any elegance or effect or originality to hang in the way between me and the […]
- p. vii, line 27[…] precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or sooth I will have purposes as health or heat or […]
- p. vii, line 28[…] or sooth I will have purposes as health or heat or snow has and be as regardless of observation. What I […]
- p. vii, line 29[…] be as regardless of observation. What I experience or portray shall go from my composition without a shred of […]
- p. vii, line 38[…] his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not. Of the traits of the […]
- p. vii, line 45[…] craft of art, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, or any craft, he is greatest forever and forever who contributes […]
- p. vii, line 58[…] countervails another . . and that men can be good or grand only of the consciousness of their supremacy within them […]
- p. vii, line 72[…] encouraging competitors . . They shall be kosmos . . without monopoly or secresy . . glad to pass any thing to any one . . hungry […]
- p. vii, line 81[…] shall delineate no class of persons nor one or two out of the strata of interests nor love most […]
- p. vii, line 85[…] for the eastern states more than the western or the northern states more than the southern […]
- p. vii, line 100[…] of every perfect poem. No matter what rises or is uttered they sent the seed of the conception of […]
- p. vii, line 120[…] supernatural and all that was twined with it or educed out of it departs as a dream.What has […]
- p. viii, line 2[…] has ever happened . . . . what happens and whatever may or shall happen, the vital laws enclose all . . . . they are sufficient […]
- p. viii, line 4[…] and for all cases . . . none to be hurried or retarded . . . . any miracle of affairs or persons inadmissible in the […]
- p. viii, line 5[…] be hurried or retarded . . . . any miracle of affairs or persons inadmissible in the vast clear scheme where every motion […]
- p. viii, line 25[…] the laws of light and of astronomical motion . . . or less than the laws that follow the thief the liar […]
- p. viii, line 28[…] the drunkard through this life and doubtless afterward . . . . . . or less than vast stretches of time or the slow formation […]
- p. viii, line 29[…] afterward . . . . . . or less than vast stretches of time or the slow formation of density or the patient upheaving of […]
- p. viii, line 30[…] of time or the slow formation of density or the patient upheaving of strata—is of no account. Whatever […]
- p. viii, line 31[…] account. Whatever would put God in a poem or system of philosophy as contending against some being or influence […]
- p. viii, line 32[…] system of philosophy as contending against some being or influence is also of no account. Sanity and ensemble characterise […]
- p. viii, line 45[…] be is just as great as to perceive or tell […]
- p. viii, line 49[…] and women exist . . . . but never takes any adherence or welcome from the rest more than from poets. They are […]
- p. viii, line 54[…] has precedence of it and nothing can warp or degrade it. The attitude of great poets is to cheer […]
- p. viii, line 59[…] nigh them awhile and though they neither speak or advise you shall learn the faithful American lesson. Liberty is […]
- p. viii, line 62[…] whose good intent is quelled from one failure or two failures or any number of failures, or from the casual indifference or […]
- p. viii, line 63[…] or two failures or any number of failures, or from the casual indifference or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp show of […]
- p. viii, line 64[…] the casual indifference or ingratitude of the people, or from the sharp show of the tushes of power, or […]
- p. viii, line 65[…] the sharp show of the tushes of power, or the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one […]
- p. viii, line 79[…] not the first to go nor the second or third to go . . it waits for all the rest to […]
- p. viii, line 100[…] innocent person into the gripe of the gripers or into any cruel inferiority . . . . when those in all parts of […]
- p. viii, line 106[…] involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or the judiciary or congress or the presidency […]
- p. viii, line 107[…] own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or the judiciary or congress or the presidency, obtain a response of love and natural deference […]
- p. viii, line 110[…] from the people whether they get the offices or no . . . . when it is better to be a bound booby […]
- p. viii, line 113[…] a high salary than the poorest free mechanic or farmer with his hat unmoved from his head and firm […]
- p. viii, line 116[…] and generous heart . . . . and when servility by town or state or the federal government or any oppression on a largescale or […]
- p. viii, line 117[…] by town or state or the federal government or any oppression on a largescale or small scale can be […]
- p. ix, line 1[…] federal government or any oppression on a largescale or small scale can be tried on without its own punishment […]
- p. ix, line 3[…] exact proportion against the smallest chance of escape . . . . or rather when all life and all the souls of men […]
- p. ix, line 15[…] sun goes deeper many fold. Each precise object or condition or combination or process exhibits a beauty . . . . the multiplication table its […]
- p. ix, line 16[…] fold. Each precise object or condition or combination or process exhibits a beauty . . . . the multiplication table its—old age […]
- p. ix, line 19[…] hugehulled cleanshaped New-York clipper at sea under steam or full sail gleams with unmatched beauty . . . . the American circles and […]
- p. ix, line 28[…] You large proprietor they say shall not realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner of the […]
- p. ix, line 40[…] models and must not permit them. In paintings or mouldings or carvings in mineral or wood, or in the illustrations of books or newspapers, or […]
- p. ix, line 41[…] or mouldings or carvings in mineral or wood, or in the illustrations of books or newspapers, or in any comic or tragic prints, or in […]
- p. ix, line 42[…] or in the illustrations of books or newspapers, or in any comic or tragic prints, or in the patterns of woven stuffs or any thing to […]
- p. ix, line 43[…] prints, or in the patterns of woven stuffs or any thing to beautify rooms or furniture or costumes, or to put upon cornices or monuments […]
- p. ix, line 44[…] or any thing to beautify rooms or furniture or costumes, or to put upon cornices or monuments or on the prows or sterns of ships, or […]
- p. ix, line 45[…] costumes, or to put upon cornices or monuments or on the prows or sterns of ships, or to put anywhere before the human eye indoors or out […]
- p. ix, line 46[…] to put anywhere before the human eye indoors or out, that which distorts honest shapes or which creates unearthly […]
- p. ix, line 47[…] indoors or out, that which distorts honest shapes or which creates unearthly beings or places or contingencies is a […]
- p. ix, line 48[…] distorts honest shapes or which creates unearthly beings or places or contingencies is a nuisance and revolt. Of the human form […]
- p. ix, line 75[…] earth gathered itself in a mass have deceit or subterfuge or prevarication attracted its smallest particle or the faintest tinge of […]
- p. ix, line 76[…] or subterfuge or prevarication attracted its smallest particle or the faintest tinge of a shade—and that through the […]
- p. ix, line 78[…] the enveloping wealth and rank of a state or the whole republic of states a sneak or sly person […]
- p. ix, line 79[…] or the whole republic of states a sneak or sly person shall be discovered and despised . . . . and that the […]
- p. ix, line 84[…] continents of the globe nor upon any planet or satellite or star, nor upon the asteroids, nor in any […]
- p. ix, line 85[…] the globe nor upon any planet or satellite or star, nor upon the asteroids, nor in any part of […]
- p. ix, line 91[…] term death, nor in any stretch of abeyance or action afterward of vitality, nor in any process of formation […]
- p. ix, line 92[…] of vitality, nor in any process of formation or reformation anywhere, a being whose instinct hated the truth […]
- p. ix, line 94Extreme caution or prudence, the soundest organic health, large hope and comparison and […]
- p. ix, line 109[…] family and completed a lawful life without debt or crime. The greatest poet sees and admits these economies as […]
- p. x, line 3[…] of life are not the hospitality of it or the ripeness and harvest of it. Beyond the independence of […]
- p. x, line 12[…] and all their stifling deceits and underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless stuffing while others starve . . and […]
- p. x, line 13[…] deceits and underhanded dodgings, or infinitessimals of parlors, or shameless stuffing while others starve . . and all the loss of […]
- p. x, line 16[…] taste of the women and men you pass or have to do with in youth or middle age, and […]
- p. x, line 17[…] pass or have to do with in youth or middle age, and the issuing sickness and desperate revolt at […]
- p. x, line 19[…] at the close of a life without elevation or naivete, and the ghastly chatter of a death without serenity […]
- p. x, line 20[…] the ghastly chatter of a death without serenity or majesty, is the great fraud upon modern civilization and forethought […]
- p. x, line 32[…] wisdom that fills the thinness of a year or seventy or eighty years to wisdom spaced out by ages and coming […]
- p. x, line 39[…] to what ensues. All that a person does or thinks is of consequence. Not a move can a man […]
- p. x, line 40[…] of consequence. Not a move can a man or woman make that affects him or her in a day or a month or any part […]
- p. x, line 41[…] that affects him or her in a day or a month or any part of the direct lifetime or the hour of death but the same affects him or […]
- p. x, line 42[…] hour of death but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is […]
- p. x, line 46[…] to the body. Not one name of word or deed . . not of venereal sores or discolorations . . not the privacy […]
- p. x, line 47[…] of word or deed . . not of venereal sores or discolorations . . not the privacy of the onanist . . not of the […]
- p. x, line 49[…] onanist . . not of the putrid veins of gluttons or rumdrinkers . . . not peculation or cunning or betrayal or murder . . no serpentine poison of those that seduce […]
- p. x, line 50[…] or rumdrinkers . . . not peculation or cunning or betrayal or murder . . no serpentine poison of those that seduce women . . not […]
- p. x, line 55[…] appetite . . not any harshness of officers to men or judges to prisoners or fathers to sons or sons to […]
- p. x, line 56[…] of officers to men or judges to prisoners or fathers to sons or sons to fathers or of husbands to wives or bosses to their boys . . not […]
- p. x, line 57[…] sons to fathers or of husbands to wives or bosses to their boys . . not of greedy looks or malignant […]
- p. x, line 58[…] bosses to their boys . . not of greedy looks or malignant wishes . . . nor any of the wiles practised by people […]
- p. x, line 60[…] wiles practised by people upon themselves . . . ever is or ever can be stamped on the programme but it is […]
- p. x, line 63[…] returned again. Nor can the push of charity or personal force ever be any thing else than the profoundest […]
- p. x, line 65[…] profoundest reason, whether it bring arguments to hand or no. No specification is necessary . . to add or subtract or […]
- p. x, line 66[…] or no. No specification is necessary . . to add or subtract or divide is in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned […]
- p. x, line 67[…] or subtract or divide is in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first […]
- p. x, line 68[…] big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe to the […]
- p. x, line 70[…] expiration out of it, all that a male or female does that is vigorous and benevolent and clean is […]
- p. x, line 72[…] clean is so much sure profit to him or her in the unshakable order of the universe and through […]
- p. x, line 74[…] whole scope of it forever. If the savage or felon is wise it is well . . . . if the greatest poet or savan is wise it is simply the same . . if the […]
- p. x, line 76[…] it is simply the same . . if the President or chief justice is wise it is the same . . . if the […]
- p. x, line 77[…] it is the same . . . if the young mechanic or farmer is wise it is no more or less . . if the prostitute is wise it is no more […]
- p. x, line 88[…] seats of the boats . . . all offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a friend's sake or opinion's sake . . . all pains of […]
- p. x, line 89[…] good old cause, or for a friend's sake or opinion's sake . . . all pains of enthusiasts scoffed at by their […]
- p. x, line 92[…] mothers . . . all honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded . . . . all the grandeur and good of the few ancient […]
- p. x, line 98[…] more ancient nations unknown to us by name or date or location . . . . all that was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded […]
- p. x, line 100[…] that was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded or no . . . . all that has at any time been well suggested […]
- p. x, line 102[…] suggested out of the divine heart of man or by the divinity of his mouth or by the shaping of his great hands . . and all that […]
- p. x, line 103[…] great hands . . and all that is well thought or done this day on any part of the surface of […]
- p. x, line 105[…] any part of the surface of the globe . . or on any of the wandering stars or fixed stars by those there as we are here . . or […]
- p. x, line 106[…] stars by those there as we are here . . or that is henceforth to be well thought or done by […]
- p. x, line 107[…] or that is henceforth to be well thought or done by you whoever you are, or by any one—these singly and wholly inured at their […]
- p. x, line 111[…] always to the identities from which they sprung or shall spring . . . Did you guess any of them lived only […]
- p. xi, line 2[…] world does not so exist . . no parts palpable or impalpable so exist . . . no result exists now without being from […]
- p. xi, line 11[…] nothing, permits no let-up for its own case or any case, has no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not […]
- p. xi, line 12[…] case or any case, has no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the living from the dead or the […]
- p. xi, line 13[…] judgment-day, divides not the living from the dead or the righteous from the unrighteous, is satisfied with the present […]
- p. xi, line 15[…] is satisfied with the present, matches every thought or act by its correlative, knows no possible forgiveness or deputed […]
- p. xi, line 16[…] act by its correlative, knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement . . knows that the young man who composedly periled […]
- p. xi, line 25[…] indirect assuredly following the direct, and what evil or good he does leaping onward and waiting to meet him […]
- p. xi, line 28[…] his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or avoids death […]
- p. xi, line 48[…] his developement. . . . . . . . Still the final test of poems or any character or work remains. The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and […]
- p. xi, line 50[…] poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer or performance after the changes of time. Does it live through […]
- p. xi, line 54[…] satisfactory now? Has no new discovery in science or arrival at superior planes of thought and judgment and behaviour […]
- p. xi, line 56[…] of thought and judgment and behaviour fixed him or his so that either can be looked down upon? Have […]
- p. xi, line 71[…] great poem is no finish to a man or woman but rather a beginning. Has any one fancied he […]
- p. xi, line 76[…] the greatest poet bring . . . he brings neither cessation or sheltered fatness and ease. The touch of him tells in […]
- p. xi, line 94[…] done. They may wait awhile . . perhaps a generation or two . . dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take […]
- p. xi, line 105[…] future . . . . They shall not deign to defend immortality or God or the perfection of things or liberty or the exquisite beauty […]
- p. xi, line 106[…] immortality or God or the perfection of things or liberty or the exquisite beauty and reality of the soul. They shall […]
- p. xii, line 12[…] great literature nor any like style of behaviour or oratory or social intercourse or household arrangements or public institutions or the treatment by bosses […]
- p. xii, line 13[…] or oratory or social intercourse or household arrangements or public institutions or the treatment by bosses of employed people, nor executive detail […]
- p. xii, line 14[…] by bosses of employed people, nor executive detail or detail of the army or navy, nor spirit of legislation […]
- p. xii, line 15[…] nor executive detail or detail of the army or navy, nor spirit of legislation or courts or police or tuition or architecture or songs or […]
- p. xii, line 16[…] or navy, nor spirit of legislation or courts or police or tuition or architecture or songs or amusements or the costumes of young men, can long elude […]
- p. xii, line 17[…] or tuition or architecture or songs or amusements or the costumes of young men, can long elude the jealous […]
- p. xii, line 19[…] jealous and passionate instinct of American standards. Whether or no the sign appears from the mouths of the people […]
- p. xii, line 22[…] and freewoman's heart after that which passes by or this built to remain. Is it uniform with my country […]
- p. xii, line 28[…] it something grown fresh out of the fields or drawn from the sea for use to me today here […]
- p. xii, line 30[…] me an American must answer for any individual or nation that serves for a part of my materials. Does […]
- p. xii, line 31[…] a part of my materials. Does this answer? or is it without reference to universal needs? or sprung of […]
- p. xii, line 32[…] or is it without reference to universal needs? or sprung of the needs of the less developed society of […]
- p. xii, line 34[…] of the less developed society of special ranks? or old needs of pleasure overlaid by modern science and forms […]
- p. 13, line 20The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hillsides,
- p. 14, line 6You shall no longer take things at second or third hand . . . . nor look through the eyes of the dead . . . . nor feed on the spectres in books,
- p. 14, line 10But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
- p. 14, line 12Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
- p. 14, line 14Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
- p. 15, line 11The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
- p. 15, line 12The sickness of one of my folks—or of myself . . . . or ill-doing . . . . or loss or lack of money . . . . or depressions or exaltations,
- p. 15, line 21I have no mockings or arguments . . . . I witness and wait.
- p. 15, line 25Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best,
- p. 16, line 4And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
- p. 16, line 10Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
- p. 16, line 13Or I guess the grass is itself a child . . . . the produced babe of the vegetation.
- p. 16, line 14Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
- p. 17, line 10I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
- p. 17, line 25I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
- p. 18, line 10What groans of overfed or half-starved who fall on the flags sunstruck or in fits,
- p. 18, line 14I mind them or the resonance of them . . . . I come again and again.
- p. 18, line 29My eyes settle the land . . . . I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
- p. 20, line 3The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,
- p. 20, line 20Oxen that rattle the yoke or halt in the shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
- p. 21, line 11Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
- p. 22, line 5The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee,
- p. 22, line 17The cleanhaired Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,
- p. 23, line 11The flatboatmen make fast toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees,
- p. 23, line 12The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river, or through those drained by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,
- p. 23, line 13The torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahoochee or Altamahaw;
- p. 23, line 20And such as it is to be of these more or less I am.
- p. 23, line 29A boatman over the lakes or bays or along coasts . . . . a Hoosier, a Badger, a Buckeye,
- p. 23, line 30A Louisianian or Georgian, a poke-easy from sandhills and pines,
- p. 23, line 31At home on Canadian snowshoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
- p. 23, line 33At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine or the Texan ranch,
- p. 24, line 5Not merely of the New World but of Africa Europe or Asia . . . . a wandering savage,
- p. 24, line 6A farmer, mechanic, or artist . . . . a gentleman, sailor, lover or quaker,
- p. 24, line 7A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician or priest.
- p. 24, line 15If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing or next to nothing,
- p. 25, line 6I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
- p. 25, line 16Does the daylight astonish? or the early redstart twittering through the woods?
- p. 25, line 29I cock my hat as I please indoors or out.
- p. 26, line 4And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
- p. 26, line 12I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
- p. 26, line 19And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
- p. 26, line 20I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
- p. 26, line 31I chant a new chant of dilation or pride,
- p. 28, line 4My gait is no faultfinder's or rejecter's gait,
- p. 28, line 14What behaved well in the past or behaves well today is not such a wonder,
- p. 28, line 15The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
- p. 28, line 19One time as good as another time . . . . here or henceforward it is all the same to me.
- p. 28, line 23This is the lexicographer or chemist . . . . this made a grammar of the old cartouches,
- p. 28, line 28I am less the reminder of property or qualities, and more the reminder of life,
- p. 29, line 5No sentimentalist . . . . no stander above men and women or apart from them . . . . no more modest than immodest.
- p. 29, line 8Whoever degrades another degrades me . . . . and whatever is done or said returns at last to me,
- p. 29, line 9And whatever I do or say I also return.
- p. 29, line 30Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from;
- p. 29, line 32This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds.
- p. 31, line 14Happiness . . . . which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.
- p. 32, line 5I hear the violincello or man's heart's complaint,
- p. 32, line 6And hear the keyed cornet or else the echo of sunset.
- p. 32, line 22I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
- p. 33, line 3No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
- p. 33, line 24What is less or more than a touch?
- p. 33, line 31And a compend of compends is the meat of a man or woman,
- p. 34, line 13In vain the speeding or shyness,
- p. 34, line 30Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.
- p. 35, line 11And myself as I stand or sit pass faster than you.
- p. 35, line 18By the city's quadrangular houses . . . . in log-huts, or camping with lumbermen,
- p. 35, line 26Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey . . . . where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-tail;
- p. 36, line 25Upon the race-course, or enjoying pic-nics or jigs or a good game of base-ball,
- p. 37, line 13Through the salt-lick or orange glade . . . . or under conical furs;
- p. 37, line 14Through the gymnasium . . . . through the curtained saloon . . . . through the office or public hall;
- p. 37, line 19Pleased with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, or any preacher . . . . looking seriously at the camp-meeting;
- p. 37, line 24Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the moccasin print;
- p. 38, line 13My messengers continually cruise away or bring their returns to me.
- p. 38, line 21Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruined city . . . . the blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.
- p. 39, line 14All these I feel or am.
- p. 40, line 2They show as the dial or move as the hands of me . . . . and I am the clock myself.
- p. 40, line 23Matchless with a horse, a rifle, a song, a supper or a courtship,
- p. 40, line 31A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart . . . . the living and dead lay together,
- p. 41, line 3These were dispatched with bayonets or battered with the blunts of muskets;
- p. 41, line 12His was the English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
- p. 42, line 17The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
- p. 43, line 1I become any presence or truth of humanity here,
- p. 43, line 22The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it . . . . or to any graves,
- p. 44, line 7Is he waiting for civilization or past it and mastering it?
- p. 44, line 9Is he from the Mississippi country? or from Iowa, Oregon or California? or from the mountains? or prairie life or bush-life? or from the sea?
- p. 44, line 15They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath . . . . they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
- p. 44, line 20Man or woman! I might tell how I like you, but cannot,
- p. 44, line 23Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity,
- p. 45, line 3To a drudge of the cottonfields or emptier of privies I lean . . . . on his right cheek I put the family kiss,
- p. 46, line 3Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,
- p. 46, line 5Not objecting to special revelations . . . . considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand as curious as any revelation;
- p. 46, line 18Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print;
- p. 47, line 11Tickets buying or taking or selling, but in to the feast never once going;
- p. 47, line 18They who piddle and patter here in collars and tailed coats . . . . I am aware who they are . . . . and that they are not worms or fleas,
- p. 48, line 1The well-taken photographs . . . . but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
- p. 48, line 4The sky up there . . . . yet here or next door or across the way?
- p. 48, line 12Making a fetish of the first rock or stump . . . . powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,
- p. 48, line 13Helping the lama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,
- p. 49, line 14Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
- p. 49, line 28Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you my brother or my sister?
- p. 50, line 1I am sorry for you . . . . they are not murderous or jealous upon me;
- p. 50, line 30Calling my name from flowerbeds or vines or tangled underbrush,
- p. 50, line 31Or while I swim in the bath . . . . or drink from the pump at the corner . . . . or the curtain is down at the opera . . . . or I glimpse at a woman's face in the railroad car;
- p. 51, line 15If I and you and the worlds and all beneath or upon their surfaces, and all the palpable life, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
- p. 51, line 18A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient,
- p. 51, line 28I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,
- p. 53, line 2Wicked, rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear,
- p. 53, line 4Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than a wound cuts,
- p. 53, line 5First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,
- p. 53, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;
- p. 53, line 13I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house,
- p. 53, line 14And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
- p. 53, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,
- p. 53, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation and a drop or the motion of waves a key,
- p. 53, line 18No shuttered room or school can commune with me,
- p. 54, line 1And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
- p. 54, line 2And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
- p. 54, line 3And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
- p. 54, line 5And any man or woman shall stand cool and supercilious before a million universes.
- p. 55, line 3And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
- p. 55, line 8It is not in any dictionary or utterance or symbol.
- p. 55, line 13It is not chaos or death . . . . it is form and union and plan . . . . it is eternal life . . . . it is happiness.
- p. 56, line 7You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
- p. 57, line 9Were I as the head teacher or charitable proprietor or wise statesman, what would it amount to?
- p. 57, line 16If you are a workman or workwoman I stand as nigh as the nighest that works in the same shop,
- p. 57, line 17If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend, I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
- p. 57, line 18If your lover or husband or wife is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome;
- p. 58, line 1If you have become degraded or ill, then I will become so for your sake;
- p. 58, line 4If you meet some stranger in the street and love him or her, do I not often meet strangers in the street and love them?
- p. 58, line 8Is it you that thought the President greater than you? or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?
- p. 58, line 9Because you are greasy or pimpled—or that you was once drunk, or a thief, or diseased, or rheumatic, or a prostitute—or are so now—or from frivolity or impotence—or that you are no scholar, and never saw your name in print . . . . do you give in that you are any less immortal?
- p. 58, line 11It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no;
- p. 58, line 14I see not merely that you are polite or whitefaced . . . . married or single . . . . citizens of old states or citizens of new states . . . . eminent in some profession . . . . a lady or gentleman in a parlor . . . . or dressed in the jail uniform . . . . or pulpit uniform,
- p. 58, line 15Not only the free Utahan, Kansian, or Arkansian . . . . not only the free Cuban . . . not merely the slave . . . . not Mexican native, or Flatfoot, or negro from Africa,
- p. 58, line 16Iroquois eating the warflesh—fishtearer in his lair of rocks and sand . . . . Esquimaux in the dark cold snowhouse . . . . Chinese with his transverse eyes . . . . Bedowee—or wandering nomad—or tabounschik at the head of his droves,
- p. 58, line 17Grown, half-grown, and babe—of this country and every country, indoors and outdoors I see . . . . and all else is behind or through them.
- p. 59, line 7I bring not money or amours or dress or eating . . . . but I bring as good;
- p. 59, line 8And send no agent or medium . . . . and offer no representative of value—but offer the value itself.
- p. 59, line 10It is not what is printed or preached or discussed . . . . it eludes discussion and print,
- p. 59, line 16Nothing in the reports from the state department or treasury department . . . . or in the daily papers, or the weekly papers,
- p. 59, line 17Or in the census returns or assessors' returns or prices current or any accounts of stock.
- p. 59, line 20And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation, or bon-mot or reconnoissance,
- p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?
- p. 60, line 3Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
- p. 60, line 4Or the attraction of gravity and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air as subjects for the savans?
- p. 60, line 5Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
- p. 60, line 6Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
- p. 60, line 7Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables or agriculture itself?
- p. 60, line 18Leaves are not more shed from the trees or trees from the earth than they are shed out of you.
- p. 61, line 2Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?
- p. 61, line 7Can each see the signs of the best by a look in the lookingglass? Is there nothing greater or more?
- p. 61, line 11The pulses of your brain waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight;
- p. 61, line 13What is called right and what is called wrong . . . . what you behold or touch . . . . what causes your anger or wonder,
- p. 61, line 15What is seen or learned in the street, or intuitively learned,
- p. 61, line 19The usual routine . . . . the workshop, factory, yard, office, store, or desk;
- p. 61, line 20The jaunt of hunting or fishing, or the life of hunting or fishing,
- p. 62, line 1The plumbob and trowel and level . . the wall-scaffold, and the work of walls and ceilings . . or any mason-work:
- p. 62, line 2The ship's compass . . the sailor's tarpaulin . . the stays and lanyards, and the ground-tackle for anchoring or mooring,
- p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;
- p. 62, line 6Everyday objects . . . . the housechairs, the carpet, the bed and the counterpane of the bed, and him or her sleeping at night, and the wind blowing, and the indefinite noises:
- p. 62, line 7The snowstorm or rainstorm . . . . the tow-trowsers . . . . the lodge-hut in the woods, and the still-hunt:
- p. 62, line 9The message of the governor, mayor, or chief of police . . . . the dishes of breakfast or dinner or supper;
- p. 62, line 10The bunkroom, the fire-engine, the string-team, and the car or truck behind;
- p. 62, line 11The paper I write on or you write on . . and every word we write . . and every cross and twirl of the pen . . and the curious way we write what we think . . . . yet very faintly;
- p. 62, line 12The directory, the detector, the ledger . . . . the books in ranks or the bookshelves . . . . the clock attached to the wall,
- p. 62, line 13The ring on your finger . . the lady's wristlet . . the hammers of stonebreakers or coppersmiths . . the druggist's vials and jars;
- p. 62, line 14The etui of surgical instruments, and the etui of oculist's or aurist's instruments, or dentist's instruments;
- p. 62, line 18Ironworks or whiteleadworks . . the sugarhouse . . steam-saws, and the great mills and factories;
- p. 62, line 21The implements for daguerreotyping . . . . the tools of the rigger or grappler or sail-maker or blockmaker,
- p. 62, line 22Goods of guttapercha or papiermache . . . . colors and brushes . . . . glaziers' implements,
- p. 63, line 2The awl and kneestrap . . the pint measure and quart measure . . the counter and stool . . the writingpen of quill or metal;
- p. 63, line 4The designs for wallpapers or oilcloths or carpets . . . . the fancies for goods for women . . . . the bookbinder's stamps;
- p. 63, line 9The bearhunt or coonhunt . . . . the bonfire of shavings in the open lot in the city . . the crowd of children watching;
- p. 63, line 21In them your themes and hints and provokers . . if not, the whole earth has no themes or hints or provokers, and never had.
- p. 63, line 24But I say that none lead to greater or sadder or happier than those lead to.
- p. 63, line 26In things best known to you finding the best or as good as the best,
- p. 64, line 3Man in the first you see or touch . . . . always in your friend or brother or nighest neighbor . . . . Woman in your mother or lover or wife,
- p. 64, line 8When the sacred vessels or the bits of the eucharist, or the lath and plast, procreate as effectually as the young silversmiths or bakers, or the masons in their overalls,
- p. 65, line 10Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without an accouchement;
- p. 65, line 11Not a day passes . . not a minute or second without a corpse.
- p. 66, line 7I see one building the house that serves him a few years . . . . or seventy or eighty years at most;
- p. 66, line 19The earth is swiftly shovelled in . . . . a minute . . no one moves or speaks . . . . it is done,
- p. 66, line 23Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend,
- p. 66, line 27Thumb extended or finger uplifted,
- p. 67, line 1Somebody loafing on you, or you loafing on somebody . . . . headway . . . . man before and man behind,
- p. 67, line 2Good day's work or bad day's work . . . . pet stock or mean stock . . . . first out or last out . . . . turning in at night,
- p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.
- p. 67, line 10Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?
- p. 67, line 11Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?
- p. 67, line 19The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses—they are not phantasms . . they have weight and form and location;
- p. 68, line 4You are thenceforth secure, whatever comes or goes.
- p. 68, line 24A zambo or a foreheadless Crowfoot or a Camanche is not nothing,
- p. 68, line 25The infected in the immigrant hospital are not nothing . . . . the murderer or mean person is not nothing,
- p. 69, line 9To show us a good thing or a few good things for a space of time—that is no satisfaction;
- p. 71, line 18Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground or sea.
- p. 71, line 28The stammerer . . . . the wellformed person . . the wasted or feeble person.
- p. 72, line 17And am curious to know where my feet stand . . . . and what is this flooding me, childhood or manhood . . . . and the hunger that crosses the bridge between.
- p. 72, line 29It is dark here underground . . . . it is not evil or pain here . . . . it is blank here, for reasons.
- p. 74, line 21Now Lucifer was not dead . . . . or if he was I am his sorrowful terrible heir;
- p. 74, line 23I will either destroy him, or he shall release me.
- p. 75, line 30The soul is always beautiful . . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . . it comes or lags behind,
- p. 76, line 7The twisted skull waits . . . . the watery or rotten blood waits,
- p. 76, line 8The child of the glutton or venerealee waits long, and the child of the drunkard waits long, and the drunkard himself waits long,
- p. 76, line 16The father holds his grown or ungrown son in his arms with measureless love . . . . and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love,
- p. 77, line 13The expression of the body of man or woman balks account,
- p. 78, line 5The swimmer naked in the swimmingbath . . seen as he swims through the salt transparent greenshine, or lies on his back and rolls silently with the heave of the water;
- p. 78, line 6Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel,
- p. 78, line 10The female soothing a child . . . . the farmer's daughter in the garden or cowyard,
- p. 79, line 4When he went with his five sons and many grandsons to hunt or fish you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
- p. 79, line 9To pass among them . . to touch any one . . . . to rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment . . . . what is this then?
- p. 79, line 17Books, art, religion, time . . the visible and solid earth . . the atmosphere and the fringed clouds . . what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed,
- p. 80, line 17Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the welloff . . . . just as much as you,
- p. 80, line 18Each has his or her place in the procession.
- p. 80, line 21Do you know so much that you call the slave or the dullface ignorant?
- p. 80, line 22Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight . . . and he or she has no right to a sight?
- p. 81, line 3For him the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
- p. 81, line 7Examine these limbs, red black or white . . . . they are very cunning in tendon and nerve;
- p. 81, line 23Her daughters or their daughters' daughters . . who knows who shall mate with them?
- p. 82, line 5And in man or woman a clean strong firmfibred body is beautiful as the most beautiful face.
- p. 82, line 6Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
- p. 82, line 8Who degrades or defiles the living human body is cursed,
- p. 82, line 9Who degrades or defiles the body of the dead is not more cursed.
- p. 82, line 10SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country byroad here then are faces,
- p. 82, line 16The welcome ugly face of some beautiful soul . . . . the handsome detested or despised face,
- p. 83, line 6Sauntering the pavement or crossing the ceaseless ferry, here then are faces;
- p. 83, line 17And more of the drugshelf . . laudanum, caoutchouc, or hog's lard.
- p. 84, line 1Splay and twist as you like . . . . poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,
- p. 84, line 7And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,
- p. 84, line 18These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake,
- p. 84, line 20Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific,
- p. 84, line 22Spots or cracks at the windows do not disturb me,
- p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
- p. 86, line 17His welcome is universal . . . . the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,
- p. 86, line 18The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
- p. 87, line 6No matter what the work is, that he is one to follow it or has followed it,
- p. 87, line 11The Italian or Frenchman is sure, and the German is sure, and the Spaniard is sure . . . . and the island Cuban is sure.
- p. 87, line 12The engineer, the deckhand on the great lakes or on the Mississippi or St Lawrence or Sacramento or Hudson or Delaware claims him.
- p. 87, line 18But what are verses beyond the flowing character you could have? . . . . or beyond beautiful manners and behaviour?
- p. 87, line 19Or beyond one manly or affectionate deed of an apprenticeboy? . . or old woman? . . or man that has been in prison or is likely to be in prison?
- p. 88, line 6Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike of personal revenge . . or the heads of the nobles fall;
- p. 90, line 14And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,
- p. 90, line 15And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day . . . . or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
- p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.
- p. 91, line 13Whether that which appears so is so . . . . Or is it all flashes and specks?
- p. 91, line 18Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,
- p. 91, line 24And these become of him or her that peruses them now.
- p. 92, line 13It is no little matter, this round and delicious globe, moving so exactly in its orbit forever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second;
- p. 92, line 16I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
- p. 92, line 17Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
- p. 92, line 18Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me or any one else.
- p. 93, line 10Yours is the muscle of life or death . . . . yours is the perfect science . . . . in you I have absolute faith.
- p. 93, line 17We are just as good and bad as the oldest and youngest or any,
- p. 94, line 3Expression of speech . . in what is written or said forget not that silence is also expressive,
- p. 94, line 14If there be any soul there is truth . . . . if there be man or woman there is truth . . . . If there be physical or moral there is truth,
- p. 94, line 15If there be equilibrium or volition there is truth . . . . if there be things at all upon the earth there is truth.
- p. 94, line 17Sound your voice! I scale mountains or dive in the sea after you.
- p. 94, line 20It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music.
- p. 95, line 4It cannot be varied by statutes any more than love or pride or the attraction of gravity can,
- p. 95, line 5It is immutable . . it does not depend on majorities . . . . majorities or what not come at last before the same passionless and exact tribunal.