Excerpted from Christopher Morley’s A Book of Days: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure
NOVEMBER 14, SATURDAY 1931
What America imports from Europe is useless to her. It is torn from its roots; and it is idle to replant it; it will not grow. There must be a native growth, not so muc of America as of the modern era. That growth America must will. She has her prophet of it, Walt Whitman. In the coming centuries it is her work to make his vision real.
— G. LOWES DICKINSON, Appearances (1914)
