In Mardi and A Voyage Thither (1849) Herman Melville's wandering philosopher Babbalanja posits
... a brutality of indiscriminate skepticismas a bad thing. The opposite of that would be
... a blind heroism of credulity!as proposed by the wandering Captain of U. S. Dragoons in the August 1852 installment of Scenes Beyond the Western Border. Revised in Part II of Scenes and Adventures in the Army (1857).
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