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.

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.

– Herman Melville –

Moby-Dick or

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