Thursday, July 14, 2011

instinct = prejudice

Babbalanja the wandering philosopher in Herman Melville's Mardi: And a Voyage Thither (1849):
"Our very instincts are prejudices," saith Alla Mallolla....



"Scenes Beyond the Western Border" in the Southern Literary Messenger Volume 18, July 1852, page 415; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army (1857 and 1859) page 341.
... a kind of prejudice or instinct—often the same thing—

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