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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and index
"Brotherhood among the atoms" / Edgar Allan Poe and the poetics of Constitution -- "A religion which is not religion" / Walt Whitman and the writing of a new American bible -- "But aren't it all a sham?" / Herman Melville and the critique of unity -- "Necessarily short of sight" / William James and the dilemma of variety