"This is my own, my native land!"--
as palliation, if not justification, for the "simple, homely, and
comprehensive adjuration, 'Own Your Own Home.'" We acknowledge the
homeliness and comprehensiveness, but we deny the value of poetic
testimony. Said Dr. Johnson:
"Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind from China to Peru,"
which, De Quincey or Tennyson declared, should have run: "Let
observation with extended observation observe mankind extensively."
Poets and tautology go walking like the Walrus and the Carpenter.
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