Word: right
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Whitman's philosophy. He said that the great fault to be found in Whitman is his lack of distinction between good and evil. Indeed Whitman affirmed that there was no such thing as evil in nature. Everything which appears evil is really good when looked at from the right standpoint. While we recognize immorality as something to be shunned, Whitman thought it should be commemorated. The lecturer said that some of his poems are nothing short of scandals in the eyes of all rightminded...
...Whitman realized that nature is not perfect, and that right is the only really strong thing in the world...
...underscorings and marginal lines, and even by marginal comments, which become in some cases little controversies between unknown critics. Aside from the distracting effect of these marks on the reader, causing him involuntarily to emphasize portions usually least important, the practice is morally wrong. No man has any right whatever to injure and deface property not his own. And no man would mark up a book borrowed from an individual if he expected ever to borrow another from the same person. It is the doing of a comparatively small number of men who are thoughtless, or careless of the rights...
...XVII, 409.- (2) In Kansas, the elections result less wisely than before women had the suffrage: Nat. Vol. 44, p. 310.- (c) The better class of women would not go to the polls.- (d) The lower classes, under the influence of their husbands and vile politicians, would use their right freely: Nat.vol. 44, p. 310.- (e) The uncounted army of women in brothels and slums would vote under the influence of money.- (f) In New Jersey, woman suffrage was abolished with the concurrence of both sexes, because her corrupt voting rendered the elections of that state a mere farce...
Whitman's idea, when it takes political form, becomes democracy. His word to Americans is "Resist much; obey little." The great city is to him one where the populace rises in revolt to right abuses...