Excerpt from Voices of the Morning I have had a dream of an American literature - not one aping the older literatures, but one breathing American life, one filled with the new aspirations of the world. I believe it will come, and that its beginning is close at hand. Near the end of every century has been a great literary awakening. Why not now? The need of this age is originality. We live too much among the pictures of our fathers. Nature is all around us, but we are not satisfied with Nature, and must needs take the imitation someone has made of her. Our creeds, our laws, our customs, our very thoughts, are furnished to us ready-made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.