lux light a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Lauren Grewe Nicole Gray Ty Alyea Matt Cohen Kevin McMullen Ashlyn Stewart University of Texas at Austin University of Nebraska-Lincoln The National Endowment for the Humanities 2011 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 duk.00195 At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook. Whitman, Walt Miscellaneous Notes, Chiefly Literary II-5 101 Between 1850 and 1860 Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Transcribed from digital images of the original item. Unknown Religious Beliefs Unknown Regularized Name proofed completed date information, updated image names added schematron declaration, updated schema declaration, changed text type to annotationsTranscribed and encoded. Checked, revised. Updated bibliographical information and handnote/xml:id encodings. Added dimensions to pasteons, checked cbs, footnotes. Proofed. "Lecture" "law" "lex" "lux" light? Alcoran, signifies law Lecture (lectio Latin—to read Originally laws were promulged by word of mouth to the people. RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.

—The proportion of the world's population who are Pagans is nearly 1 in 2; MahommedansMuslims, about 1 in 7; Catholics, nearly one in 8; Protestants, about 1 in 15; Greek Church, 1 in 18; Jews, about 1 in 100 of the whole population.

 (Bunsen) Abrahamic movement 28th or 29th Century before Christ. Buddhism was the State religion of India from the 3d century before to the 6th century after Christ. "Tien" "Tin" the ?a Chinese name for the Divinity Tien