ALL submit to them, where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis, in the
Soul;
Not traditionsnot the outer authorities are the judgesthey are the judges of
outer
authorities, and of all traditions;
They corroborate as they go, only whatever corroborates themselves, and touches
themselves;
For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far and near, without one
exception.
Tests.
written byWalt Whitman
© Walt Whitman