...be left in the end with none but unimpassioned spectators of their transports. I have shown how the ideas of progression and of the indefinite perfectibility...grows and dilates beyond all measure. Here then is the widest range open to the genius of poets, which allows them to remove their performances to a sufficient...

...be left in the end with none but unimpassioned spectators of their transports. I have shown how the ideas of progression and of the indefinite perfectibility...grows and dilates beyond all measure. Here then is the widest range open to the genius of poets, which allows them to remove their performances to a sufficient...

...be left in the end with none but unimpassioned spectators of their transports. I have shown how the ideas of progression and of the indefinite perfectibility...and dilates beyond all measure. Here, then, is the widest range open to the genius of poets, which allows them to remove their performances to a sufficient...

...direction, their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure. Here, then, is the widest range open to the genius of poets, which allows them...to a sufficient distance from the eye. Democracy, which shuts the past against the poet, opens the future before him. As all the citizens who compose...

...the future of mankind (H,76-77). Unlike aristocracies, which tend to idolize the past, democracies "are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction...imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure" (78). Thus, although the Materialistic and Utilitarian nature of democratic culture inevitably promoted...

...American political and international landscapes. Nearly 150 years ago Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that "Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what can be ; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measures. . . ....

...Whitman, as heir to the sentiments of Crevecoeur, Cooper, Tocqueville ("Democratic nations care yet little for what has been, but they are haunted by...of what will be: in this direction their unbounded HISTORY IN THE BRAIN, THOUGHT IN THE LAND imagination grows and dictates beyond all measure"30), and...

...shearing is apparently pure again. No wonder de Tocqueville concluded in a famous passage that Americans "care but little for what has been, but they are haunted...imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure" (n, 78). Certainly the Scottish philosophical historians tended to be more cautious and pragmatic about...

...sake. Somewhere out in front are the scientists ('it's new— it's scientific') handling the controls. 'Democratic nations care but little for what has been,...but they are haunted by visions of what will be,' said de Tocqueville; 'Copywriters should emphasise the more pleasant side of their proposals; they...

...chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. Democracy in America (1835-1840) 1945:Vol. 1, 443. is Democratic nations care but little for what has been,...imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure. . . Democracy, which shuts the past against the poet, opens the future before him. Democracy in America...