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But
I
omit
them
as
altogether
obsolete
;
and
can
hardly
help
suspecting
them
for
mere
sounds
,
full
of
Leviathanism
,
but
signifying
nothing
.
Finally
:
It
was
stated
at
the
outset
,
that
this
system
would
not
be
here
,
and
at
once
,
perfected
.
You
can
not
but
plainly
see
that
I
have
kept
my
word
.
But
I
now
leave
my
cetological
System
standing
thus
unfinished
,
even
as
the
great
Cathedral
of
Cologne
was
left
,
with
the
cranes
still
standing
upon
the
top
of
the
uncompleted
tower
.
For
small
erections
may
be
finished
by
their
first
architects
;
grand
ones
,
true
ones
,
ever
leave
the
copestone
to
posterity
.
God
keep
me
from
ever
completing
anything
.
This
whole
book
is
but
a
draught
--
nay
,
but
the
draught
of
a
draught
.
Oh
,
Time
,
Strength
,
Cash
,
and
Patience
!
Concerning
the
officers
of
the
whale-craft
,
this
seems
as
good
a
place
as
any
to
set
down
a
little
domestic
peculiarity
on
ship-board
,
arising
from
the
existence
of
the
harpooneer
class
of
officers
,
a
class
unknown
of
course
in
any
other
marine
than
the
whale-fleet
.
The
large
importance
attached
to
the
harpooneer
's
vocation
is
evinced
by
the
fact
,
that
originally
in
the
old
Dutch
Fishery
,
two
centuries
and
more
ago
,
the
command
of
a
whale-ship
was
not
wholly
lodged
in
the
person
now
called
the
captain
,
but
was
divided
between
him
and
an
officer
called
the
Specksynder
.
Literally
this
word
means
Fat-Cutter
;
usage
,
however
,
in
time
made
it
equivalent
to
Chief
Harpooneer
.
In
those
days
,
the
captain
's
authority
was
restricted
to
the
navigation
and
general
management
of
the
vessel
;
while
over
the
whale-hunting
department
and
all
its
concerns
,
the
Specksynder
or
Chief
Harpooneer
reigned
supreme
.
In
the
British
Greenland
Fishery
,
under
the
corrupted
title
of
Specksioneer
,
this
old
Dutch
official
is
still
retained
,
but
his
former
dignity
is
sadly
abridged
.
At
present
he
ranks
simply
as
senior
Harpooneer
;
and
as
such
,
is
but
one
of
the
captain
's
more
inferior
subalterns
.
Nevertheless
,
as
upon
the
good
conduct
of
the
harpooneers
the
success
of
a
whaling
voyage
largely
depends
,
and
since
in
the
American
Fishery
he
is
not
only
an
important
officer
in
the
boat
,
but
under
certain
circumstances
(
night
watches
on
a
whaling
ground
)
the
command
of
the
ship
's
deck
is
also
his
;
therefore
the
grand
political
maxim
of
the
sea
demands
,
that
he
should
nominally
live
apart
from
the
men
before
the
mast
,
and
be
in
some
way
distinguished
as
their
professional
superior
;
though
always
,
by
them
,
familiarly
regarded
as
their
social
equal
.
Now
,
the
grand
distinction
between
officer
and
man
at
sea
,
is
this
--
the
first
lives
aft
,
the
last
forward
.
Hence
,
in
whale-ships
and
merchantmen
alike
,
the
mates
have
their
quarters
with
the
captain
;
and
so
,
too
,
in
most
of
the
American
whalers
the
harpooneers
are
lodged
in
the
after
part
of
the
ship
.
That
is
to
say
,
they
take
their
meals
in
the
captain
's
cabin
,
and
sleep
in
a
place
indirectly
communicating
with
it
.
Though
the
long
period
of
a
Southern
whaling
voyage
(
by
far
the
longest
of
all
voyages
now
or
ever
made
by
man
)
,
the
peculiar
perils
of
it
,
and
the
community
of
interest
prevailing
among
a
company
,
all
of
whom
,
high
or
low
,
depend
for
their
profits
,
not
upon
fixed
wages
,
but
upon
their
common
luck
,
together
with
their
common
vigilance
,
intrepidity
,
and
hard
work
;
though
all
these
things
do
in
some
cases
tend
to
beget
a
less
rigorous
discipline
than
in
merchantmen
generally
;
yet
,
never
mind
how
much
like
an
old
Mesopotamian
family
these
whalemen
may
,
in
some
primitive
instances
,
live
together
;
for
all
that
,
the
punctilious
externals
,
at
least
,
of
the
quarter-deck
are
seldom
materially
relaxed
,
and
in
no
instance
done
away
.
Indeed
,
many
are
the
Nantucket
ships
in
which
you
will
see
the
skipper
parading
his
quarter-deck
with
an
elated
grandeur
not
surpassed
in
any
military
navy
;
nay
,
extorting
almost
as
much
outward
homage
as
if
he
wore
the
imperial
purple
,
and
not
the
shabbiest
of
pilot-cloth
.
And
though
of
all
men
the
moody
captain
of
the
Pequod
was
the
least
given
to
that
sort
of
shallowest
assumption
;
and
though
the
only
homage
he
ever
exacted
,
was
implicit
,
instantaneous
obedience
;
though
he
required
no
man
to
remove
the
shoes
from
his
feet
ere
stepping
upon
the
quarter-deck
;
and
though
there
were
times
when
,
owing
to
peculiar
circumstances
connected
with
events
hereafter
to
be
detailed
,
he
addressed
them
in
unusual
terms
,
whether
of
condescension
or
in
terrorem
,
or
otherwise
;
yet
even
Captain
Ahab
was
by
no
means
unobservant
of
the
paramount
forms
and
usages
of
the
sea
.
Nor
,
perhaps
,
will
it
fail
to
be
eventually
perceived
,
that
behind
those
forms
and
usages
,
as
it
were
,
he
sometimes
masked
himself
;
incidentally
making
use
of
them
for
other
and
more
private
ends
than
they
were
legitimately
intended
to
subserve
.
That
certain
sultanism
of
his
brain
,
which
had
otherwise
in
a
good
degree
remained
unmanifested
;
through
those
forms
that
same
sultanism
became
incarnate
in
an
irresistible
dictatorship
.
For
be
a
man
's
intellectual
superiority
what
it
will
,
it
can
never
assume
the
practical
,
available
supremacy
over
other
men
,
without
the
aid
of
some
sort
of
external
arts
and
entrenchments
,
always
,
in
themselves
,
more
or
less
paltry
and
base
.
This
it
is
,
that
for
ever
keeps
God
's
true
princes
of
the
Empire
from
the
world
's
hustings
;
and
leaves
the
highest
honors
that
this
air
can
give
,
to
those
men
who
become
famous
more
through
their
infinite
inferiority
to
the
choice
hidden
handful
of
the
Divine
Inert
,
than
through
their
undoubted
superiority
over
the
dead
level
of
the
mass
.
Such
large
virtue
lurks
in
these
small
things
when
extreme
political
superstitions
invest
them
,
that
in
some
royal
instances
even
to
idiot
imbecility
they
have
imparted
potency
.
But
when
,
as
in
the
case
of
Nicholas
the
Czar
,
the
ringed
crown
of
geographical
empire
encircles
an
imperial
brain
;
then
,
the
plebeian
herds
crouch
abased
before
the
tremendous
centralization
.
Nor
,
will
the
tragic
dramatist
who
would
depict
mortal
indomitableness
in
its
fullest
sweep
and
direct
swing
,
ever
forget
a
hint
,
incidentally
so
important
in
his
art
,
as
the
one
now
alluded
to
But
Ahab
,
my
Captain
,
still
moves
before
me
in
all
his
Nantucket
grimness
and
shagginess
;
and
in
this
episode
touching
Emperors
and
Kings
,
I
must
not
conceal
that
I
have
only
to
do
with
a
poor
old
whale-hunter
like
him
;
and
,
therefore
,
all
outward
majestical
trappings
and
housings
are
denied
me
.
Oh
,
Ahab
!
what
shall
be
grand
in
thee
,
it
must
needs
be
plucked
at
from
the
skies
,
and
dived
for
in
the
deep
,
and
featured
in
the
unbodied
air
!
