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Part Second — epigraph
The overture to Part Second, whose musical name means all voices, freely: Browning on a People as “the attempt of many / To rise to the completer life of one,” and George Eliot's Felix Holt on every man's claim to a freeman's share — the register shifts from woman's part to the whole chorus of race and nation.
From solo to full chorusBrowning epigraphA freeman's sharePart Second's theme: race and nation