Alphabetarion # Nepotism | Herman Melville, 1850

Cody Hudson, The Way Things Seem to Us, 2023

“Whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.”

Herman Melville, White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, 1850

Also:
Book//mark – Bartleby, the Scrivener | Herman Melville, 1853
The March To The Sea | A poem by Herman Melville, 1864