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  • Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.

    Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). “Mardi and a Voyage Thither: Volulme Three, Scholarly Edition”, p.527, Northwestern University Press