“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.”
Jack London
White Fang (Primary source)
White Fang is a novel by Jack London set in the Yukon and Northwest Territories during the Klondike era. It follows White Fang, a wolf-dog born in the wild to a wolf mother and a partly domesticated father. From an early age, he is shaped by hunger, danger, and the constant competition for survival in the northern wilderness.
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
— Jack London Secondary source“Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.”
— Jack London Primary source“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”
— Jack London Primary source“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
— Jack London Primary source“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
— Thucydides Primary source“Ask advice of him who governs himself well.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary sourceNature Hierarchy Strength Power