Garden of eden Quote by Herman Melville
![“Billy ... was little more than a sort of upright barbarian ... as Adam presumably might have been [in Eden].” quote by Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5b0/herman-melville-162_garden-of-eden_billy-was-little-more-than-a-sort-of-upr_2548248.jpg)
““Billy ... was little more than a sort of upright barbarian ... as Adam presumably might have been [in Eden].””
““Billy ... was little more than a sort of upright barbarian ... as Adam presumably might have been [in Eden].””
![“[The Christian story] amounts to a refusal to affirm life. In the biblical tradition we have inherited, life is corrupt, and every natural impulse is sinful unless it has been circumcised or baptized. The serpent was the one who brought sin into the wold. And the woman was the one who handed the…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/82b/joseph-campbell-300_adam-and-eve_the-christian-story-amounts-to-a-refusal_170106.jpg)