Skip to main content

Walt Whitman on Democracy and Optimism as a Mighty Form of Resistance | Brain Pickings :: by Maria Popova

Content of: Walt Whitman on Democracy and Optimism as a Mighty Form of Resistance | Brain Pickings :: by Maria Popova

Posted by Between the Lines • Profile • 07/29/18 at 03:03PM • Prose, Pages & Words • See more by Maria Popova

Shortly before his sixtieth birthday and a decade after issuing his immensely prescient admonition that America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without," Whitman writes under the heading “DEMOCRACY IN THE NEW WORLD”:....Click to read more