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Edward Grier notes that this scrap contains ideas similar to those found in what would become section 4 of the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself." But Grier also indicates that the manuscript could be notes for a lecture that Whitman was planning (
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 6:2047). In either case, the manuscript likely dates to the 1850s.
