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In reply to the discussion: Can an Atheist Value Faith? [View all]
 

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11. If you have a few minutes, read this chapter from Moby Dick.
Mon Jun 27, 2016, 06:54 PM
Jun 2016
Cutting me a green measuring-rod, I once more dived within the skeleton. From their arrow-slit in the skull, the priests perceived me taking the altitude of the final rib, “How now!” they shouted; “Dar’st thou measure this our god! That’s for us.” “Aye, priests- well, how long do ye make him, then?” But hereupon a fierce contest rose among them, concerning feet and inches; they cracked each other’s sconces with their yard-sticks- the great skull echoed- and seizing that lucky chance, I quickly concluded my own admeasurements.

http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick/783/chapter-102-a-bower-in-the-arsacides/

This has always summed up the matter for me.
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