Ignorance is the parent of fear. Herman Melville (1819 – 1891)
Herman Melville Quote – “As a man-of-war that sails through the sea…”
As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing, never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the ship-wright… Thus sailing with sealed orders, we ourselves are the repositories of the secret packet, whose mysterious contents we long to learn. There are no mysteries out of ourselves. […]