Feinberg/Whitman Notes and Notebooks Notes--Literary Undated What Is Religion? 
Box 40 Folder 52176 What Is Religion?: notes. A.MS. (lp. 8 x 19 cm. on 24 x 15 1/2 cm.)
Written in pencil on a slip of paper torn from the top of a larger 
sheet, and pasted on a flyleaf (decorated on verso) torn from a 
book (on flyleaf, in Traubel's hand: "A specimen slip of Whitman's 
handwriting--Horace Traubel: 1909"), 54 words:
He too sought to answer, after the light that was in him, that
question or questions all races, all times
What is Religion? What is this strange elusive
tantalizing something--this Eidolon--this phantasmic-breath, itself
a nothing, non-real, yet more than all the realities an the
so-called realities of the world?We sought to answer, after the light that was in [[??]] that question or questions all races, all times
What is Religion? What is this strange elusive tantalizing something - this [[Erdolon?]] - this [[phantasmus?]] breath itself a nothing yet more than all the [realities] objectives of the world?[*09-83.405.8*] a specimen of slop of Whitman's
handwriting
_____________________ ________________________: 1909
06-83-405 B