Herman Melville Quote

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.


Battle-pieces and Aspects of the War (ed. 1866)


Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.