--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick": > > > "And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to > behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, > mild head overhung by a canopy of vapor, engendered by his > incommunicable contemplations, and that vapor - as you will sometimes > see it - glorified by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal > upon his thoughts. For d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; > they only irradiate vapor. And so, through all the thick mists of the > dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, > enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for > all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with > them, have intuitions. Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions > of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor > infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye." > > > http://tinyurl.com/34vmmz > > (From Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish blog. An emailer > sent the quote to Sullivan, saying he was reminded > of it when reading Sullivan's debate with Sam Harris.) > My goodness. You've shot your daily wad of 5 by 10am today. Later....
