...Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." Democracy was a passion with him: "By God ! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms !" He loved Nature and interpreted her moods with loving understanding : "I believe a leaf of grass...

...have our faces turned towards a new day, and toward heights on which there is room for all. " By God, I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms " is the motto of the great personages, the great souls of to-day. On the same terms, for that is Nature's...

...rights as myself. ' Or again : ' I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God ! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. ' But what are these same terms? Does Whitman believe that all can comply here and now with the terms?...

...the following passage : * I speak the pass,word primeval — I give the sign of democracy ; By God ! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. Thus Democracy implies the absolute equality of heritage possessed by every man and woman in the good...

...his vigorous masculine love, asserting his own personality he has asserted that of all — " By God ! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms." Charging himself in every place with contentment and triumph, he embraces all men, as St. Francis in...

...He has solemnly declared : / I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God II will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. This one declaration covers the entire ground. It is a declaration of independence, and it is also...

...Whitman bases democracy : " I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of I democracy, By God ! I will accept nothing which all cannot have [ their counterpart of on the same terms." When this idea permeates the nature it generates a feeling of brotherhood very different from that...

...through me the current and index. I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God ! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. Through me many long dumb voices, Voices of the interminable generations of prisoners and slaves, Voices...

...the current and index. 500 I speak the pass-word primeval — I give the sign of democracy ; By God ! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. Through me many long dumb voices ; Voices of the interminable generations of slaves ; Voices of prostitutes,...

...have our faces turned towards a new day, and toward heights on which there is room for all. " By God, I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms " is the motto of the great personages, the great souls of to-day. On the same terms, for that is Nature's...