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This dream is, of course, unrealized and unreal- izable, in America as elsewhere. Undeniably there are in America many suggestions of such a societj^ and such a national character. But the growing complexity _aiid fixity_jaf-. Institutions . Necessarily tends to obscure these traits of ^ primitive and crude deniocfacy. What Whitman seized upon as the promise of the future was in reality the sur- vival of the past. He sings the song of pioneers, but it is in the nature of the pioneer that the gr...eater his success the quicker must be his trans- formation into something different. When Whit- man made the initial and amorphous phase of society his ideal, he became the prophet of a lost cause. That cause was lost, not merely when wealth and intelligence began to take shape in the American Commonwealth, but it was lost at the very foundation of the world, when those laws of evolution were established which Whitman, like Bousseau, failed to understand. If we may trust Mr. Herbert Spencer, these laws involve a passage from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, and* a constant progress at once in differentiation and .
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