Robert Fuller is the author of Somebodies & Nobodies, the book that identified the malady of
rankism and All Rise, which describes a dignitarian society committed to overcoming it.
Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.
Herman Melville (1819-1891), from his masterpiece, Moby Dick
