Excerpt from Democratic Vistas: Washington D. C., 1871

I say that Democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of arts, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been ~produced anywhere in the past, under Opposite in¿uences.

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