YOU who celebrate bygones! <br /> Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races--the life <br /> that has exhibited itself; <br /> Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, <br /> rulers and priests; <br /> I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself, <br /> in his own rights, <br /> Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the <br /> great pride of man in himself;) <br /> Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, <br /> I project the history of the future.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-a-historian/
