By The TOQ Classics Corner 5

The American System vs. the White Race:
D. H. Lawrence on Moby Dick

“What then is Moby Dick? He is the deepest blood-being of the white race; he is our deepest blood-nature.“And he is hunted, hunted, hunted by the maniacal fanaticism of our white mental consciousness. We want to hunt him down. To subject him to our will. And in this maniacal conscious hunt of ourselves we get dark races and pale to help us, red, yellow, and black,...