FEINBERG/WHITMAN     LITERARY FILE   Prose "Complete Human Identity" (undated).  A.MS.draft.
Box 36 Folder 7[*119*]

Complete Human Identity: notes. A.MS. (3p. 13 1/2 x 16, 15 1/2 x 
14, 21 1/2 x 16 cm.)

Written in ink on graying sheets of paper cut and torn from larger
sheets, about 270 words. Each of the three sheets has a prsentation
note in the corner from Horace Traubel: the first reads, 'A
leaf --bit of Walt Whitmans's Ms for Frank Bain: 1911  Horace Traubel';
the second reads, 'Ms. bit by Walt Whitman sent Dec 1911 to 
Frank Bain by H. T.'; the third reads, 'A piece of Walt Whitmans 
Ms. for Mildred Bain 1911 from H. T.'  Whitman's notes:

[At any rate But] True, I could not [make] construct a poem
which declaredly, [end in entire faith] took, as never before, the 
[whole] complete human identity, [mora] physical, moral, [em] emotional
and intellectual giving precedence [as a] for its model and clue,
giving precedence and [wide] compass in a certain sense of our first
[--and] nor [pretend] fulfil [to] that bona fide candor and entirety of
treatment, [beyond other what has gone before,] which was a part of

[*over*]
[*1199*]

my purpose--without comprehending this section also.    /

[In fact [is] does not however overlaid the like of this conviction
[unconsciously] immortally exist [intuitively] at the centre
of all society --of marriage--and is not ready to]

In fact, however overlaid, or unaware of itself, is its culture
has and much as [its] and evolution [is] does [it] not [this conviction]
[intuitive] the conviction, involved in it, [in the race?] [exist] immortally
exist at the centre of all society, and of the sexes, and
of marriage? Is it not intuitive in the race? [For] [And] For old as 
the world is perhaps the best and earliest and purest intuitions
of the race have [not yet appeared have] yet to be developed.   /

I [He thinks a] [the fact]  A vast share of the impurities, feeblenesses,
[or] that at least half of humanity goes awry, & is distorted
and diseased--is to be found in this [painful] absolute
blinding, [and] [sensealm] repressal, &  [in] from the consignment of the
[gre] subject, and its mention, to the libidinous, to blackguards,
[and] [to] and the dexterous writing of half the verse and novel writers,
who make it their main theme, [in] not in any healthy way, but
a heating and abnormal one.

[*122?*]
*[A leaflet of Walt
Whitmans's ms for Frank
Bain:  1911
 [?]*]

[At any rate But] True I could not
[make] construct a poem which declaredly, [and in entire faith] 
took, as never before, the [whole] complete, human identity,
[?] physical, moral [an] emotional
and intellectual (growing precedence & [as a] for its model and
clue, giving precedence and compass in a certain sense on part – [and] nor [pretend to] that
bona fide candor and entirety
of treatment [beyond other what]
[has gone before,] which was a 
part of my purpose – without
comprehending this section also.[*ms. bit
by Walt
Whitman
sent
Dec 1911
to Frank
Baith by
H. T.*]

[The fact [is] however overlaid does not the like of this 
conviction [unconsciously] immortally exist
[intuitively] at the centre
of all society -- of marriage --
and is not ready to]

In fact, however overlaid or unaware of itself, is its own much as [its] culture has and evolution
[is] does [it] not [this conviction intuitive] the 'conviction involved in it.'
[in the race? exist] immortally 
exist at the centre of all
society, and of the senses, and of marriage? Is it
not intuitive in the race?  [For And] For
old as the world is perhaps the best and
earliest and purest intuitions of the race have 
[not yet appeared – have] yet to be
developed.7
[He thinks] [the fast] A vast share of
the impurities, feeblenesses,
 or that at least half of humanity 
goes awry, & is distorted and discarded
is to be found in this [painful]
absolute blinding [and] [concealing] repressal
& [in] from the consignment of
the [gre] subject, and its mention
to the libidinous, to blackguards,
[and to] and the dexterous writing
of half the verse and novel 
writers, who make if their
main theme [or] not in any healthy way, but a heating 
and abnormal one.

[*a piece of Walt 
Whitman Ms. for 
Mildred Bain
1911 from
H.T.*]