"…the ship’s library was stocked with wholesome books, including…A Lecture to Young Men on Chastity by Sylvester Graham, inventor of the cracker that still bears his name and that was promoted in the nineteenth century for its anti-aphrodisiac properties."
— From Andrew Delbanco’s biography of Melville, writing about a whaleship Melville was aboard in his twenties.
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Used Delbanco’s biography of Melville pretty heavily as a source for a paper written about Melville’s Benito Cereno and...
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