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...out or put in, quite solely with reference to America and to-day. Modern science and democracy seem'd to be throwing out their challenge to poetry to put...challenge and made an attempt at such statements — which 1 certainly would not assume to do now, knowing more clearly what it means. For grounds for Leaves...

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