Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
“For those who believe in God the matter is simpler still and clearly than anything else: because those who believe in God believe that God is the Creator of the whole Universe and there is nothing that does not come from Him.”
“It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.”