I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and…

Herman Melville
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I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling. ✨ Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). Correspondence, p.212, Northwestern University Press
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