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" I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States. "
Walt Whitman - Page 23
by William Clarke - 1892 - 132 pages
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Specimen Days and Collect

Walt Whitman - 1883 - 390 pages
...the verteber to State or man, seems to me either entirely lacking, or seriously enfeebled or ungrown. I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly...underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in, (for all this hectic glow, and these melo-dramatic screamings,) nor is humanity itself...
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Specimen Days & Collect

Walt Whitman - 1882 - 412 pages
...the verteber to State or man, seems to me either entirely lacking, or seriously enfeebled or ungrown. I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly...underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in, (for all this hectic glow, and these melo-dramatic screamings,) nor is humanity itself...
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Democratic Vistas: And Other Papers

Walt Whitman - 1888 - 212 pages
...the verteber to State or man, seems to me either entirely lacking, or seriously enfeebled or ungrown. I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly...diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, triflr/* hnllnwnesg at hfarLthgn at ' / present, and here in the United States. Genuine belief _^F...
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Complete Prose Works: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Good ...

Walt Whitman - 1901 - 566 pages
...the verteber to State or man, seems to me either entirely lacking, or seriously enfeebled or ungrown. I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly...underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in, (for all this hectic glow, and these melo-dramatic screamings,) nor is humanity itself...
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Whitman's Ideal Democracy: And Other Writings

Helena Born - 1902 - 136 pages
...among the blemishes revealed by the moral microscope with which he examines American civilization. " Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart...nor is humanity itself believed in. What penetrating s eye does not everywhere see through the mask ? The spectacle is appalling. We live in an atmosphere...
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Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass: An Introduction

W. H. Trimble - 1905 - 116 pages
...Democratic Vistas Whitman gives a grim illustration of the corrupt condition of modern society : — I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly...disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness of heart than at present, and here in the United States genuine belief seems to have left us. The underlying...
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Whitman's Leaves of Grass: Style and Subject Matter with Special Reference ...

Thomas Kile Smith - 1914 - 84 pages
...by science, must be restored, brought back by the same power that caused her departure" ... (p. 76.) "Genuine belief seems to have left us. The underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in ... nor is humanity itself believ'd in. What penetrating eye does not everywhere see through...
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Leaves of Grass and Democratic Vistas

Walt Whitman - 1916 - 388 pages
...the verteber to State or man, seems to me either entirely lacking, or seriously enfeebled or ungrown. I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing-^ome deep disease. Never ': was there, perhaps, morelfhonoSnessIat heart than at present,...
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Essays in Freedom and Rebellion

Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1921 - 232 pages
...far from it. In one of his prose books (too little read) he says of his country: — Never was there more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States. ... A scornful superciliousness rules in literature. The aim of all the litterateurs is to find something...
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The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States, Volume III ...

Erik Barnouw - 1970 - 426 pages
...The messages wirelessed ten years ago have not reached some of the nearest stars. GUGUELMO MAHCONI I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face. WALT WHITMAN RECKONING The three volumes of this study, telling of an electronic tube and the fabulous...
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