Herman Melville

• see also Moby-Dick

• "Genius all over the world stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole world round."
  • Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)

• "Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilize civilization and christianize Christendom?"
  • White Jacket (1850)