Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Some Laggards Yet ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
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GIORDANO BRUNO


   As America's mental courage (the thought comes to me to-day) is so indebted, above all current lands and peoples, to the noble army of Old-World martyrs past, how incumbent on us that we clear those martyrs' lives and names, and hold them up for reverent admiration, as well as beacons. And typical of this, and standing for it and all perhaps, Giordano Bruno may well be put, to-day and to come, in our New World's thankfulest heart and memory. W. W. February 24th, 1890. Camden, N. J.