worship? thought I. suppose now, Ishmael, magnanimous God heaven earth — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, Whale

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But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth—pagans and all included—can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?—to do the will of God—that is worship. And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me—that is the will of God.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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