That Calvinistic sense of Innate Depravity and Original Sin, from whose visitations, in some shape or other, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free.

Herman Melville

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Topic

Original sin Human nature

Author

Herman Melville

Source

Hawthorne and His Mosses The Literary World

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Melville, Herman. "Hawthorne and His Mosses." The Literary World. New York: Osgood and Company, 1850.

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Melville, Herman. "Hawthorne and His Mosses." Tales, Poems, and Other Writings. Modern Library, 2002.

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