a miscellaneous and Pantheistic whole

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“He did not see that there is no such thing as a standard for the creative spirit; that no one great book must ever be separately regarded, and permitted to domineer with its own uniqueness upon the creative mind; but that all existing great works must be federated into the fancy; and so regarded as a miscellaneous and Pantheistic whole. . . .

—Herman Melville, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, 1852.

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