Lawrence and the chain of the Great Lakes. We both thought that this translucid purity would have deep influence upon the art and the ethical natures of the peoples who are to dwell along the St. Lawrence River, which eh had seen during the past summer. Whitman dwelt enthusiastically on the remarkable perennial purity of the great St. (Walt Whitman's syntax is always much broken in conversation, until he warms up to this theme.) He said, "The Greeks tested everything by the open air." I can't tell how it was, but the large personality of the man so vivified the few words he spoke that all the majesty of Greece-especially her sculpturesque art-idea-seemed to loom up before me as never before in my life, although the study of Greek literature had been a specialty of my collegiate and post-collegiate years. But I never knew anyone show profounder insight into the Greek al fresco spirit than he in the course of a few broken and hesitating sentences. It appears that he has never dipped into the Greek language said he had not. There is a kind of sweet and pathetic resignation in the tones of his voice he seems patient and pain-chastened has a proud but kindly, native-aristocratic temper and carriage. A delightful call on Walt Whitman last night.
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