“Mr. Melville is evidently trying to ascertain how far the public will consent to be imposed upon. He is gauging, at once, our gullibilty and our patience. Having written one or two passable extravagancies, he has considered himself privileged to produce as many more as he pleases, increasingly exaggerated and increasingly dull…. In bombast, in caricature, in rhetorical artifice —… — John L. O'Sullivan Copy Share
“We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?” — John L. O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
