Excerpt from Walt Whitman (the Camden Sage) As Religious and Moral TeacherIt may seem a questionable expedient to print in the Appendix extracts from an insolent critique. Still, the extracts when hos tile, are so ferocious as to condemn themselves. They will, how ever serve to prove that the writer of this essay went through the usual phases of amazement, horror, indignation, fury, exaspera tion, disapproval, qualified dislike, qualified liking, till at length he is forced by common honesty to confess himself an ardent lover of much that our great American champion of Democracy, political and spiritual, has written.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.