"Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilize civilisation and christianize Christendom?"
— Herman Melville

January 1, 1970

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This has often been quoted with modernized American spelling, rendering it "to civilize civilization and christianize Christendom?"