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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1	5	1	Browse	Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore)	2	2	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson	2	0	Browse	Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	2	0	Browse	Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource]	2	0	Browse	Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Americanism in literature. (search)

plies attitudinizing and constraint, but by simply accepting our own life. It is not desirable to go out of one's way to be original, but it is to be hoped that it may lie in one's way. Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes. If you want to astonish the whole world, said Rahel, tell the simple truth. It is easier to excuse a thousand defects in the literary man who proceeds on this faith, than to forgive the one great defect of imitation in the purist who seeks only to be English. As Wasson has said, The Englishman is undoubtedly a wholesome figure to the mental eye; but will not twenty million copies of him do, for the present? We must pardon something to the spirit of liberty. We must run some risks, as all immature creatures do, in the effort to use our own limbs. Professor Edward Channing used to say that it was a bad sign for a college boy to write too well; there should be exuberances and inequalities. A nation which has but just begun to create a literature must sow

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