I asked myself whether there was not in his soul some deep-rooted instinct of creation, which the circumstances of his life had obscured, but which grew relentlessly,
as a cancer may grow in the living tissues, till at last it took possession of his whole being and forced him irresistibly to action.
1)为什么会出现whether there was not...? 这里的not是否多余?我们通常说whether...(or not 可省略),没见过whether...not这种句型。
2)最后的force sb to action, action是名词,词典标注into, 而不是to, 有force sb to sth这种结构吗?
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