Herman Melville Quote

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.


Mardi: And a Voyage Thither (ed. 1855)


Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.