...in despair. "A slumbering woman and child convince as an university course can never convince : " " Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul." Whitman becomes lyrical in presence of the imagination attempting for itself an interpretation of the...

...theological dissertations on the difference between tweedledee and tweedledum he had nothing but contempt : "Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul." And yet of his faith he writes : "My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths. Enclosing...

...some point on which they radically differed, I have often been reminded of that passage in his book, Logic and sermons never convince ; The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. .While admitting and appreciating the force of reason and logic, yet if they were in conflict with...

...equal selfhood. She, too, is out on the open road. He detects a similar equality in things and events. A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. External objects furnish their part towards eternity. " And I will show that whatever happens to anybody...

...consummations, alike in the visible and invisible. The Cosmos is not immoral for him. He writes : " I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the star ; And the pismire perfect ; and a grain of sand ; and the egg of the wren ; And the tree toad...

...nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch ?) Logic...The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. (Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so, Only what nobody denies is so.) _1 A minute...

...the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch ?) Ixigic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. (Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so, Only what nobody denies is so.) A minute and...

...resist it ; They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon j The insignificant is as big to me as any ; (What is less or more than a touch?) • Logic and sermons never convince ; . / 650 The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul./ Only what proves itself to every man and...

...resist it ; They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon ; The insignificant is as big to me as any ; (What is less or more than a touch ?) Logic and sermons never convince ; 650 The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. Only what proves itself to every man and woman...

...boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific, And until every one shall delight us, and we them. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, 660 And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad...