English

Cristina Ramsey

8 January, 09:09

Which line from Moby-D by Herman Melville presents a harsh criticism of religion?

From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favourable winds.

But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

For the present other matters press, and the best we can do now for the head, is to pray heaven the tackles may hold.

This elusive quality it is, which causes the thought of whiteness, when divorced from more kindly associations, and coupled with any object terrible in itself, to heighten that terror to the furthest bounds.