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"His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have thus adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels." Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

More: https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/interventions/logging-ships-log-medium-0

Logging-In: The Ship's Log as Medium | Stanford Humanities Center

Attention to the material cultures of the eighteenth-century log-book and journal reveal that media of navigation, through which to imagine distant, and not proximal, relations, might not be as remote as we would like to think.