I dedicate this book to the man who inspired it - to the man who of all men past and present that I have known has the most exalted moral nature - to Walt Whitman. (Richard Maurice Bucke)

I dedicate this book to the man who inspired it - to the man who of all men past and present that I have known has the most exalted moral nature - to Walt Whitman.

Richard Maurice Bucke

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