Chants Democratic and Native American 19

Part of the cluster CHANTS DEMOCRATIC AND NATIVE AMERICAN.

19.

I WAS looking a long while for the history of the
past for myself, and for these Chants—and now
I have found it, It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them
I neither accept nor reject,) It is no more in the legends than in all else, It is in the present—it is this earth to-day, It is in Democracy—in this America—the old world
also, It is the life of one man or one woman to-day, the
average man of to-day; It is languages, social customs, literatures, arts, It is the broad show of artificial things, ships, ma-
chinery, politics, creeds, modern improvements,
and the interchanges of nations, All for the average man of to-day.

Part of the cluster CHANTS DEMOCRATIC AND NATIVE AMERICAN.