Thus, with the truth in our heads and love in our hearts; with zeal and public spirit, with a concern for liberty, civil and religious; with industry and economy; with a strict care for the education of youth, and their nature and admonition in the fear of the Lord; this American land shall become a great and glorious empire. Transported at the thought, I am born in future days! I see this new world rising in her glory, and behold period still brightening upon period. Where depths of gloomy wilderness now extend and shut out even beams of day, I behold polished villas and religious domes spreading around."
Don’t Call Me Ishmael
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The opening line of what many consider the Great American Novel, Moby Dick,
by Herman Melville, famously reads, “Call me Ishmael.” It’s a potent
biblical a...
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