Well, we seem to have established it at once.
It promises not to cost us a penny of investment.
Now, the magazines need new topics.

They have all threshed over old straw for many years.

There is _one_ new subject, to my thinking worth all the old ones: the new impulse in American life, the new feeling of nationality, our coming to realize ourselves.

To my mind there is greater promise in democracy than men of any preceding period ever dared dream of--aggressive democracy--growth by action.
Our writers (the few we have) are yet in the pre-democratic era.
When men's imaginations lay hold on the things that already begin to appear above the horizon, we shall have something worth reading.
At present I can do no more than bawl out, "See! here are new subjects." One of these days somebody will come along who can write about them.

I have started out without a writer.