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shall have a glimpse at a state of things worth more than a national metropolis.
The collective judgment of a series of smaller tribunals like this will ultimately be worth more to an author, or to a literature, than that of London or Paris.
History gives us, in the Greek states, the Italian Republics, the German university towns, some examples of such a concurrent intellectual jurisdiction; but they missed the element of size, the element of democratic freedom, the element of an indefinite future.
All these are ours.
Boston, Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1892.
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