The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-11-04

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presenee q sincerity. OF truth, they cast
oown tneir Syee ano enoeavor % feel I'M.
mooeek re mem the most ceautitui
thing = nypocnsy adornea with bush.
They 40 mos WAX the etreets OF the CITY
Of hfe-they explore the sewers: they
stand 10 the cutters and cry "Unclean! T.
They prclenq mat beauty y snare; mat
love - Uelaan: toes tne highway OF JOY
e the broad rood. lined with lowers and
filled With perfume. leading to the city Of
eternal eorroW.
6tuce me year l1o0 me American people
nave deveiopeo; they are somewhat ac-
1snssa ~ ~. sne Iset 8 q tne world.
they have Witnessed sne most tremendous
OF Ievoiuuons nos only upon the nelds Of
oasue. out "a the world q thought. me
american ois11en has concluded that It u
hardly worth while being . sovereign un-
iess A. hae TIE rigns % think Tor himself.
And now nom TINS height with the van
toRo around Of today. pEopoDo 70 EXAM
inc this book and 70 state, IN : general
Ways What Walt Whitman has done, what
he has accomplished, and the place he has
won y tie world Of thought.
wait whitman stood, when he published
n1s book Whero al stand toutght-On the
perpetually moving line whore history
euds and prophecy be&ina He knew some
thing Of song and story. Of philosophy and
art--much Of the her0ic dead. Of brave
habits q the people-rich - we'll - poor
familiar with labor, friend OF wind and
wave. touched BY love and friendship.
Walt Whitman announced the gospel of
the body. He confronted the people. He
denied the deprauty Of man. He insisted
that love 10 not : crime; that men and
women should b proudly natural; that
they need not grovel on the earth and
cover their faces for shame. He taught
the dignity and glore Of the father and
mother; the sacredness Of maternity.
Maternity, tender and pure ~ the tear Of
pity, holy - su6ering-the crown. the
flower. the ecstasy Of love-
People had been taught from Bibles and
from cfeeds that maternity was q kind Of
crime; that the woman should b purified
by some ceremony IN some temple built in
honor OF some rod. The barbarisnism va
attacked by his Leaves of Grass"
The glory Of eimple life was sung: = dec.
laration OF Independence vas made for
each and ali. And vet this appeaI 10 man.
hood and to womanhood va misunder.
stood. 1t was denounced simply because
it was in harmony with the erest trend of
nature. To me. the most ohscene vord -