• I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

  Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist 1819-1892
  

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1. luxuriantly
2. displacing
3. influences
4. anywhere
5. opposite
6. grows

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. by : Walt Whitman

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