![]() ![]() Here are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes. Here is action untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars and details magnificently moving in vast masses. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. ![]() and that he shall be fittest for his days. that its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches. perceives that it waits a little while in the door. ![]() perceives that the corpse is slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house. is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms. America does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions. ![]()
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