...ble outgrowth of the American environment, the more readily shall we come into full use of it: such use as has in other lands produced out of just such material the plays of Shakespeare, the epics of Homer , the operas of Wagner, the fables of Aesop, the hymns of David, the tales of Andersen, and the Arabian Nights. Perhaps the nearest and best use we can make of it is the mere contemplation of its ...