"Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)— Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world— a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious— surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity."

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Walt Whitman was an American poet and essayist best known for Leaves of Grass. His free-verse style and expansive voice reshaped modern poetry in English.

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