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Within this outline, as it stands at the moment, the hippie is seen as the seeker of peace, love, and joy. He is not hung up. Freed from materialism, from the past, from traditions, institutions, inherited customs, values, and restraints, he is open to the flow of experience. Acceptance of the body frees his senses for the apprehension of beauty beauty. He rejects Christianity, my student tells me, but sees some possibilities in Buddhism. Christianity, …

…the Seven Gables, ed. Hyatt H. Waggoner (Boston, 1964), pp. xi-xii. 18 See Howard Mumford Jones's comment: "The American wing of the literary museum was virtually unvisited until rumor went round that Melville and Hawthorne were seen there conversing with the devil." The Bright Medusa (Urbane, 1952), p. 2. 19 F. Matthiessen, American Renaissance (New York, 1941), pp. 234-35. 20 American Notebooks, p. 82. 21 Hawthorne in England, p. 223. 22 Interpretations of American Literature, p. 35 23 Matthiessen, p. 227. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This WebSite Maintained by Edward Fisher Copyright 1996