Hawthorne and His Mosses

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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

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Original Citation

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

Current Citation

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