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  • Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.

    Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.373, Cosimo, Inc.