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Epilogue From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman G A great city is that which has the greatest men and women, If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world. The place where a great city stands is not the stretch’d wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely . . . Nor the place of tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth. Nor the place of the best libraries and schools, nor the place where money is plentiest, Nor the place of the most numerous population . . . Where the slave ceases, and the master of slaves ceases, Where the populace rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons . . . Where women walk in public processions in the streets the same as the men, Where they enter the public assembly and take place the same as the men . . . There the great city stands. 135 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...

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