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Yr's of 9th just come;—Whittier's poetry stands for morality (not its ensemble or in any true philosophic or Hegelian sense but)—as filter'd through the positive Puritanical & Quaker filters—is very valuable as a genuine utterance & very fine one—with many capital local & yankee & genre bits—all unmistakably hued with zealous partizan anti-slavery coloring. Then all the genre contributions are precious—all help. Whittier is rather a grand figure—pretty lean & ascetic—no Greek—also not composite & universal enough, (don't wish to be, don't try to be) for ideal Americanism—Ideal Americanism would probably take the Greek spirit & law for all the globe, all history, all rank, the 19/20ths called evil just as well as the 1/20th called good (or moral)—

The sense of Mannahatta means the place around which the hurried (or feverish) waters are continually coming or whence they are going

Walt Whitman