...fountain in the unapparent. How can this one small heart beat, breathes Ahab, imploring the darkness, and this one small brain think thoughts, unless God does...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I ? For God is in all and beneath all and over all the thoughts and deeds of the "Pequod", and slowly...

...fountain in the unapparent. How can this one small heart beat, breathes Ahab, imploring the darkness, and this one small brain think thoughts, unless God does...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I ? For God is in all and beneath all and over all the thoughts and deeds of the " Pequod ",' and slowly...

...inscrutable, unearthly thing is it, — Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts the arm?... By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this...like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike". The Pequod is not long on its way when Ahab discloses his purpose to the officers and men. In five...

...natural lovings and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time ... By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this...like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.' " (Chapter CXXXII.) This is no answer, and if the hero speaks in puzzlement of himself in the third...

...Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself . . . how then can this one small heart beat; this one small...round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate " Some discussion of the subject can be found in the present writer's "Herman Melville's Metaphysics...

...for his acts, he may reasonably ask in what sense he has any identity at all. His later statement — "how then can this one small heart beat; this one...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I"(545. 14-16) — would seem to be a development of the question as worded in A. Furthermore, the...

...his acts, he may reasonably ask in what sense he has any identity at all. His later statement—"how then can this one small heart beat; this one small...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I"(545.14-16)—would seem to be a development of the question as worded in A. Furthermore, the repetition...

...fatalistic attitude relieves him of any responsibility for his actions. "By heaven, man," he says, "we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike" (p. 445). If the end is inevitable, the means are immaterial or, in Ahab's case, immoral. Ahab refuses...

...— he insists — is in control. "But if the great sun move not of himself . . . nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power, how then...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not 1" (p. 445). Since he cannot discover the final cause, Ahab concludes that all is fated. The man whose...

...arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then...beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not L ... And all the time, lo! that smiling sky, and this unsounded sea! Look! see yon Albicore! who put...