FEINBERG/WHITMAN  LITERARY FILE Prose "The Theory of Culture"/undated). A.MS. draft.
Box 36 Folder 60173
The Theory of Culture: notes. A.MS. (3p. 20 1/2 x 13 cm, and
11 1/2 x 20 1/2 cm.)
Written in ink, with a few of the corrections in pencil on a
piece of unlined paper (verso lined paper, with Whitman's comments:
--Is enthusiasm--the ? --dead? [Did Were] Could the ignorant 
[midl]ancient & middle ages be roused to great ideas, alone), 93
words on one page, undoubedly Whitman’s: [*1*]

[? Culture]  [is more a speciality for]
 ?The theory of Culture fits the specialities of scholars &
the literary [men] class; Personalism  is for [the]universal use of 
living men in the practical [men]world, with its qualities, fibre,
storms, mixture of good and evil.  The latter of the two has heights 
& flashes [wh] to which the former can never attain. The latter is 
for the Soul, the [for]other for the Intellect, Power, abysmal
truths, heroisms, religious [extesies] flights, go with the first;
grace, logic, [wit]the demonstrable, the esthetic, with the latter 
[*2*]
                                         [over]173A
[3]
On the other sheet (verso, pencil writing which does not seem to
be in Whitman's hand) on lined ledger sheet, cut from the bottom
of a larger page, 70 words in Whitman's hand, but the text does
not appear to be Whitman's prose style:
[Note]
[Ap. E]
.....with the increasing light of culture is ushered in the erm
of Prose, which, like an invading monarch, first takes possession
of the valleys & the plains as a legitimate domain, & then
pushes his conquests into the highlands, whose native queen,
Poesia, retires farther & farther into her constantly diminishing
realm, until at length, nothing remains obedient to her
secptre but the solitude of a Parmassian peak.[Note]
[Ap. E]
.....With the increasing light of culture
is ushered in the era of Prose, which,
like an invading monarch, first takes
possession of the valleys & the plains as
a legitimate domain, & then pushes his
conquests into the highlands, whose native
queen, Poesia, retires farther & farther
into her constantly diminishing realm,
until at length nothing remains obedient
to her sceptre but the solitude of a 
Parmassian peak.is enforced [?]
Statute, and does not extend
to and cannot be exercised in,
cases of maritime captures 
under the law of war adjudicated
under the [?] jurisdiction,
although such captures are or 
might be also [sustainable] sustained as valid seizures under
the statute.
(c) Because if the Secretary of the 
[? Culture]
The theory of
Culture }  [is more a speciality for]
fits the specialties
of scholars &
the literary [men] class; Personalism
is for [the] universal use of
living men, in the practical [men] world, with its qualities, fibre, storms, mixture of good & evil. The
latter of the two has heights & flashes
[wh] to which the former
can never attain. The
latter is for the Soul, the
[for] other for the Intellect.
Power, abysmal truths, heroisms,
religious [ecstasies] flight, go with the
first; grace, logic, [wit] the
demonstrable, the esthetic, with
the latter.-- Is enthusiasim - the
?  --  dead?
[Did] [were] Could the
ignorant [?????] ancient
& middle ages be
roused to great ideas
alone