He was wise enough to know that giving others the same rights that he claims for himself could not harm him, and he was great enough to say: "As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same." He felt as all should feel, that the liberty of no man is safe unless the liberty of each is safe. There is in our country a little of the old servile spirit, a little of the bowing and cringing to others. Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people. Nothing is so demoralizing as the worship of place. Whitman has reminded the people of this country that they are supreme, and he has said to them: The President is there in the White House for you, it is not you who are here for him, The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you, not you here for them. Doctrines, politics and civilization exurge from you, Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in you. He describes the ideal American citizen--the one who Says indifferently and alike "How are you, friend?" to the President at his levee, And he says "Good-day, my brother," to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field. Long ago, when the politicians were wrong, when the judges were subservient, when the pulpit was a coward, Walt Whitman shouted: Man shall not hold property in man. The least developed person on earth is just as important and sacred to himself or herself as the most develop'd person is to himself or herself. This is the very soul of true democracy. Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty. Walt Whitman utters the elemental truths and is the poet of democracy. He is also the poet of individuality. V. INDIVIDUALITY. In order to protect the liberties of a nation, we must protect the individual. A democracy is a nation of free individuals. The individuals are not to be sacrificed to the nation. The nation exists only for the purpose of guarding and protecting the individuality of men and women. Walt Whitman has told us that: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual--namely to You." And he has also told us that the greatest city--the greatest nation--is "where the citizen is always the head and ideal." And that A great city is that which has the greatest men and women, If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world. By this test maybe the greatest city on the continent to-night is Camden. This poet has asked of us this question: What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior? The man who asks this question has left no impress of his lips in the dust, and has no dirt upon his knees. He was great enough to say: