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Gillespie argues that from the very beginning moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life

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On Providence

Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories george makdisi Gillespie argues that from theBilly Budd, Sailor has been called the best short novel ever written. In his brilliantly condensed prose, Herman Melville fashions a legal parable in which reason and intellect prove incapable of preserving innocence in the face of evil. For all those who feel themselves threatened by a hostile and inflexible environment, there is special significance in this haunting story of a handsome sailor who becomes a victim of mans intransigence. Author: