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142 Voluptuous, inhabitive, combative, conscientious,
 * alimentive, intuitive, of copious friendship,
 * sublimity, firmness, self-esteem, comparison,
 * individuality, form, locality, eventuality,

Avowing by life, manners, works, to contribute illustrations
 * of results of The States,

Teacher of the unquenchable creed, namely, egotism, Inviter of others continually henceforth to try their
 * strength against his.

The main shapes arise! Shapes of Democracy, final—result of centuries, Shapes of those that do not joke with life, but are
 * in earnest with life,

Shapes, ever projecting other shapes, Shapes of a hundred Free States, begetting another
 * hundred north and south,

Shapes of turbulent manly cities, Shapes of an untamed breed of young men, and
 * natural persons,

Shapes of the women fit for These States, Shapes of the composition of all the varieties of the
 * earth,

Shapes of the friends and home-givers of the whole
 * earth,

Shapes bracing the whole earth, and braced with the
 * whole earth.