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Chants Democratic.
:We are powerful and tremendous in ourselves,
- We are executive in ourselves—We are sufficient in the variety of ourselves,
- We are the most beautiful to ourselves, and in ourselves,
- Nothing is sinful to us outside of ourselves,
- Whatever appears, whatever does not appear, we are beautiful or sinful in ourselves only.
3. Have you thought there could be but a single Supreme?
- There can be any number of Supremes—One does not countervail another, any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.
4. All is eligible to all,
- All is for individuals—All is for you,
- No condition is prohibited, not God's or any,
- If one is lost, you are inevitably lost.
5. All comes by the body—only health puts you rapport with the universe.
6. Produce great persons, the rest follows.
7. How dare a sick man, or an obedient man, write poems for These States?
- Which is the theory or book that, for our purposes, is not diseased?
8. Piety and conformity to them that like!
- Peace, obesity, allegiance, to them that like!
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