The Past! the dark, unfathom'd retrospect!
The teeming gulf! the sleepers and the shadows!
The past! the infinite greatness of the past!
For what is the present, after all, but a growth out of the past?
Walt Whitman. 1900. Passage to India, in Leaves of Grass.
Walt Whitman on the Infinite Greatness of the Past
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