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HOLLOWNESS_AT_HEART

                                             December 30, 2010

    Walt Whitman, "Democratic Vistas"
    from around 1871:

        "Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at
        heart than at present, and here in the United
        States. Genuine belief seems to have left
        us. The underlying principles of the States are
        not honestly believ'd in, (for all this hectic
        glow, and these melodramatic screamings,) nor is
        humanity itself believ'd in. What penetrating
        eye does not everywhere see through the mask?"

   http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/Whitman/vistas/vistas.html





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