"heaven and earth"  (p.572)

Note 32:  Know ye, now, Bulkington?  Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?

Source:  Melville, Herman.  Moby Dick. W. W. Norton &Company.  New York, New York:  1967.  (p.97)

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