It will describe the new heroic life of man, the
now unbelieved possibility of simple living and of clean and noble
relations with men. Religion will bind again these that were
sometime frivolous, customary, enemies, skeptics, self-seekers, into
a joyful reverence for the circumambient Whole, and that which was
ecstasy shall become daily bread.
_New Poetry_
The tendencies of the times are so democratical, that we shall
soon have not so much as a pulpit or raised platform in any church or
townhouse, but each person, who is moved to address any public
assembly, will speak from the floor. The like revolution in
literature is now giving importance to the portfolio over the book.
Only one man in the thousand may print a book, but one in ten or one
in five may inscribe his thoughts, or at least with short commentary
his favorite readings in a private journal. The philosophy of the
day has long since broached a more liberal doctrine of the poetic
faculty than our fathers held, and reckons poetry the right and power
of every man to whose culture justice is done.
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