I was going to punt and say that without Melville there'd have been no Conrad...
This gives me the idea for a slight alteration to my 'who would you kick out of the political theory canon?' parlor game.
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"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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