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You who celebrate bygones: / Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races -- the life that has / exhibited itself; / Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers, / and priests. / I, habitué of the Alleghanies, treating man as he is in himself, in his own / rights, / Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, the great / pride of man in himself; / Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be; / I project the history of the future.