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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)

CHAPTER XCVII
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Faith And Knowledge A thing incredible is about to be related; but a thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

And many infidels but disbelieve the least incredible things; and many bigots reject the most obvious.

But let us hold fast to all we have; and stop all leaks in our faith; lest an opening, but of a hand's breadth, should sink our seventy-fours.

The wide Atlantic can rush in at one port-hole; and if we surrender a plank, we surrender the fleet.

Panoplied in all the armor of St.Paul, morion, hauberk, and greaves, let us fight the Turks inch by inch, and yield them naught but our corpse.
But let us not turn round upon friends, confounding them with foes.
For dissenters only assent to more than we.


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