Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)βScience, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the worldβa sun, mounting, most illuminating, most gloriousβsurely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity. β¨ Walt Whitman (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated), p.1406, Delphi Classics
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- I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out. β¨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.25, NYU Press
- The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. β¨ Walt Whitman (2007). Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition, p.10, Courier Corporation
- There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe. β¨ Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, p.42, Oxford University Press
- Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? β¨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradle β¦ βΆ
- I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: G β¦ βΆ
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