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Excerpt: Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville.

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...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong....

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Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey.

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