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| 39a8607 | What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. | poem song life homage walt-whitman reflection | Walt Whitman | |
| 031875e | Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim--one upon whose head has been poured the divine petroleum of authority. . Compare with Queen Victoria. The Queen is clothed in garments given her by blind fortune and unreasoning chance, while . The world is beginning to pay homage to intellect, to genius, to heart. We have advanced. . | heroic bravery sacrifice heart king-william benefit ernst-haeckel haeckel homage eliot glory george-eliot queen-victoria chance genius sublime intellect colossus | Robert G. Ingersoll |