FEINBERG/WHITMAN      LITERARY FILE     Prose  "Let Us Not Lose Our Faith" (undated) A.MS. draft.
Box 36  Folder 32140
Let Us Not Lose Our Faith:  prose. A.MS. (2p. 12½ x 20½
 cm.) 

Written on a lined sheet from a notebook in ink on one side (with cancelations in pencil) and 
on the other side in pencil (with a vertical line in blue pencil 
the length of the page), about 180 words: 'The inquir[y]ies [is a] 
[are] are terrible & tremendous one. & And Amid all our verbal facility 
and intellection--amid all our brag, and the plausible way 
of putting forward certain vulgar and material & rote-educational 
achievements of the New World--what student of the old incomparable 
poems of Asia or the science of Europe--what acute and candid 
mind, can admit, as yet, for the New World, any answer, [or] to such 
questions, in the affirmative--or even approximation to the affirmative?
But let us not lose our faith. [Indeed there is ground]
[enough for hope, ground already for enthusiasm.] We bide our time. 
Long, long is the process of the development of a people. Only to
the spiritual vision, [is] does the seen become the prophecy of the 
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unseen. / The [improve] (?) re-adjustment of every thing to [The] 
those two greatest formulations of modern scientism, [Evolution,]
[and] that of the Universal Forces, [and leave] (amid all its infinite 
& varied apparent changes, [death, or disappea eessa or-temporary] 
transfreences or cessations,) as branches of [ess] eternal and essentially 
One Eter Force, [essentially]    The [inquiry] inquiries [is a] are terrible
& tremendous ones. And Amid all
our verbal facility -- and intellection
-- amid all our brag, and the 
plausible way of putting forward certain
vulgar and material & rote educational
achievements of the New World --
what acute and candid mind
-- what student of the old incomparative poems of Asia or the science of Europe
can admit, as yet, for the New World any answer
[as] to such questions, in the
affirmative -- or even approximation
to the affirmative?
    But let us not lose our
faith. Indeed there is ground
enough for hope, ground already
for enthusiasm. We bide our
time.. Long, long is the process
of the developement of a people.
Only to the spiritual vision [is] does the
seen become the prophecy of the unseen.
The [improve] re-adjustment of
every thing and to those
[The] two greatest 
formulations of
modern scientism,
[Evolution and] that of the 
Universal Forces, [and Laws] (amid
all its infinite varied &
apparent changes, [deaths]
[or disappea] [cesa]
[or tempories] transferences
or cessations) as branches of
[bra] eternal and 
essentially [o]One Elem
Force, [essentially]