WALT WHITMAN: WHAT A GREAT CITY REQUIRES

The  following excerpts from "Song of the Broad Axe by Walt Whitman  speaks of what a "great city" requires:

"Where the men and women think lightly of the laws... / Where the populace rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons,/ Where outside authority enters always after the precedence of inside authority,/ Where the citizen is the head and ideal, and President, Mayor, Governor, are agents for pay, / Where women walk in public processions in the streets the same as the men, / Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men,... / There the great city stands."