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=philosophy=

The same goes for philosophy. It is a post-experiential analysis that people often turn to as a replacement for their own "original relation to the universe" (from [|Emerson], I think). It's what WW refers to at the start of "Song of Myself" when he says "creeds and schools in abeyance." He's not going to deny them their place in the whole scheme of things; he just doesn't want them to become substitutes for actual lived experience.

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