"The most poisonous reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so, equally with every felicity, all miserable events do naturally beget their like."
Musing:
Since my BFF Julie Moore-Felux implied I should muse more on this blog, muse I will. It's not hard to look at today's quote in light of our current political environment. Melville likes to point out, in many ways, that what we put into an act/action is often what we get in return.