Part I: The Cult of Sameness

“We are not a Christian civilization; democracy is not a Christian invention.” — Freda Kirchwey in The Nation, November 3, 1940.

“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced in the past, under opposite influences.” — Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas.