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Page 20 of Whitman’s “Earliest Notebook”

There is the being of whom I am the inferior? It is the .. of the sly or shallow to divide men like the metals into those more precious and others less precious intrinsically. I never yet knew what I was to feel how it felt to stood in the presence of my superior. I could now abase myself if God is the presence of if God were made visible immediately before me, I could not abuse myself. How if I know but I shall myself. I will not be the cart, nor the load on the cart, nor the horses that draw the cart, but will be the pair of little hands that guide the cart.
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