Melville on Reason’s Capacity to Comfort a Soul in Distress
“For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril; nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.”
--from Pierre or, the Ambiguities
--from Pierre or, the Ambiguities
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