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Herman Melville

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Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?
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Ch. 64
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This has often been quoted with modernized American spelling, rendering it "to civilize civilization and christianize Christendom?"

 
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