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Leaves of Grass (1881-82)
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TESTS.
ALL submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable
to analysis in the soul,
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Not traditions, not the outer authorities are the judges, |
They are the judges of outer authorities and of all traditions, |
They corroborate as they go only whatever corroborates them-
selves, and touches themselves;
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For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far
and near without one exception.
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