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254 I see the menials of the earth, laboring, I see the prisoners in the prisons, I see the defective human bodies of the earth, I see the blind, the deaf and dumb, idiots, hunchbacks,
 * lunatics,

I see the pirates, thieves, betrayers, murderers, slave-makers
 * of the earth,

I see the helpless infants, and the helpless old men
 * and women.

I see male and female everywhere, I see the serene brotherhood of philosophs, I see the constructiveness of my race, I see the results of the perseverance and industry of
 * my race,

I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations—I go
 * among them—I mix indiscriminately,

And I salute all the inhabitants of the earth.

You, where you are! You daughter or son of England! You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you
 * Russ in Russia!

You dim-descended, black, divine-souled African,
 * large, fine-headed, nobly-formed, superbly destined,
 * on equal terms with me!

You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you
 * Prussian!

You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese! You Frenchwoman and Frenchman of France! You Beige! you liberty-lover of the Netherlands! You sturdy Austrian! you Lombard! Hun! Bohemian!
 * farmer of Styria!