. and then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If. - Quote by Herman Melville)
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There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause: – through infancy’s unconscious spell, boyhood’s thoughtless faith, adolescence’ doubt (the common doom). and then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood’s pondering repose of If.
