It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted.

Walt Whitman

Democratic Vistas

On democracy.

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Democracy

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

Democratic Vistas

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United States

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Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas. Washington D.C.: J. S. Redfield, 1871.

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas, edited by Ed Folsom. University Of Iowa Press, 2009.

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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself

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Song of Myself Leaves of Grass
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Language
English
Time
1855 1850s 19th century
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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 51.

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What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy.

Francis Fukuyama

The End of History?

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Francis Fukuyama
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The End of History?
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Essay
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Bad predictions Prophecies and predictions
Language
English
Time
1989 1980s 20th century
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Fukuyama, Francis. "The End of History?" National Interest, summer 1989.