Monday, October 30, 2006

Incomplete Democracy

"It is to the development, identification, and general prevalence of that fervid comradeship (the adhesive love, at least rivaling the amative love hitherto possessing imaginative literature, if not going beyond it), that I look for the counterbalance and offset of our materialistic and vulgar American democracy, and for the spiritualization thereof. "
-Walt Whitman from Democratic Vistas (1865)
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