The Daily Dick: A Study in Leadership
"With the mad secret of his unabated rage bolted up and keyed in him, Ahab had purposely sailed upon the present voyage with the one only and all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale. [ . . . ] The crew, so officered, seemed specially picked and packed by some infernal fatality to help him to his monomaniac revenge. How it was that they so abidingly responded to the old man’s ire—by what evil magic their souls were possessed, that at times his hate seemed almost their
