We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to …

Herman Melville
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We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us. ✨ Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). Redburn: Works of Herman Melville Volume Four, p.293, Northwestern University Press
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