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Only
one
sweeter
end
can
readily
be
recalled
--
the
delicious
death
of
an
Ohio
honey-hunter
,
who
seeking
honey
in
the
crotch
of
a
hollow
tree
,
found
such
exceeding
store
of
it
,
that
leaning
too
far
over
,
it
sucked
him
in
,
so
that
he
died
embalmed
.
How
many
,
think
ye
,
have
likewise
fallen
into
Plato
's
honey
head
,
and
sweetly
perished
there
?
To
scan
the
lines
of
his
face
,
or
feel
the
bumps
on
the
head
of
this
Leviathan
;
this
is
a
thing
which
no
Physiognomist
or
Phrenologist
has
as
yet
undertaken
.
Such
an
enterprise
would
seem
almost
as
hopeful
as
for
Lavater
to
have
scrutinized
the
wrinkles
on
the
Rock
of
Gibraltar
,
or
for
Gall
to
have
mounted
a
ladder
and
manipulated
the
dome
of
the
Pantheon
.
Still
,
in
that
famous
work
of
his
,
Lavater
not
only
treats
of
the
various
faces
of
men
,
but
also
attentively
studies
the
faces
of
horses
,
birds
,
serpents
,
and
fish
;
and
dwells
in
detail
upon
the
modifications
of
expression
discernible
therein
.
Nor
have
Gall
and
his
disciple
Spurzheim
failed
to
throw
out
some
hints
touching
the
phrenological
characteristics
of
other
beings
than
man
.
Therefore
,
though
I
am
but
ill
qualified
for
a
pioneer
,
in
the
application
of
these
two
semi-sciences
to
the
whale
,
I
will
do
my
endeavor
.
I
try
all
things
;
I
achieve
what
I
can
.
Physiognomically
regarded
,
the
Sperm
Whale
is
an
anomalous
creature
.
He
has
no
proper
nose
.
And
since
the
nose
is
the
central
and
most
conspicuous
of
the
features
;
and
since
it
perhaps
most
modifies
and
finally
controls
their
combined
expression
;
hence
it
would
seem
that
its
entire
absence
,
as
an
external
appendage
,
must
very
largely
affect
the
countenance
of
the
whale
.
For
as
in
landscape
gardening
,
a
spire
,
cupola
,
monument
,
or
tower
of
some
sort
,
is
deemed
almost
indispensable
to
the
completion
of
the
scene
;
so
no
face
can
be
physiognomically
in
keeping
without
the
elevated
open-work
belfry
of
the
nose
.
Dash
the
nose
from
Phidias
's
marble
Jove
,
and
what
a
sorry
remainder
!
Nevertheless
,
Leviathan
is
of
so
mighty
a
magnitude
,
all
his
proportions
are
so
stately
,
that
the
same
deficiency
which
in
the
sculptured
Jove
were
hideous
,
in
him
is
no
blemish
at
all
.
Nay
,
it
is
an
added
grandeur
.
A
nose
to
the
whale
would
have
been
impertinent
.
As
on
your
physiognomical
voyage
you
sail
round
his
vast
head
in
your
jollyboat
,
your
noble
conceptions
of
him
are
never
insulted
by
the
reflection
that
he
has
a
nose
to
be
pulled
.
A
pestilent
conceit
,
which
so
often
will
insist
upon
obtruding
even
when
beholding
the
mightiest
royal
beadle
on
his
throne
.
In
some
particulars
,
perhaps
the
most
imposing
physiognomical
view
to
be
had
of
the
Sperm
Whale
,
is
that
of
the
full
front
of
his
head
.
This
aspect
is
sublime
.
In
thought
,
a
fine
human
brow
is
like
the
East
when
troubled
with
the
morning
.
In
the
repose
of
the
pasture
,
the
curled
brow
of
the
bull
has
a
touch
of
the
grand
in
it
.
Pushing
heavy
cannon
up
mountain
defiles
,
the
elephant
's
brow
is
majestic
.
Human
or
animal
,
the
mystical
brow
is
as
that
great
golden
seal
affixed
by
the
German
Emperors
to
their
decrees
.
It
signifies
--
"
God
:
done
this
day
by
my
hand
.
"
But
in
most
creatures
,
nay
in
man
himself
,
very
often
the
brow
is
but
a
mere
strip
of
alpine
land
lying
along
the
snow
line
.
Few
are
the
foreheads
which
like
Shakespeare
's
or
Melancthon
's
rise
so
high
,
and
descend
so
low
,
that
the
eyes
themselves
seem
clear
,
eternal
,
tideless
mountain
lakes
;
and
above
them
in
the
forehead
's
wrinkles
,
you
seem
to
track
the
antlered
thoughts
descending
there
to
drink
,
as
the
Highland
hunters
track
the
snow
prints
of
the
deer
.
But
in
the
great
Sperm
Whale
,
this
high
and
mighty
god-like
dignity
inherent
in
the
brow
is
so
immensely
amplified
,
that
gazing
on
it
,
in
that
full
front
view
,
you
feel
the
Deity
and
the
dread
powers
more
forcibly
than
in
beholding
any
other
object
in
living
nature
.
For
you
see
no
one
point
precisely
;
not
one
distinct
feature
is
revealed
;
no
nose
,
eyes
,
cars
,
or
mouth
;
no
face
;
he
has
none
,
proper
;
nothing
but
that
one
broad
firmament
of
a
forehead
,
pleated
with
riddles
;
dumbly
lowering
with
the
doom
of
boats
,
and
ships
,
and
men
.
Nor
,
in
profile
,
does
this
wondrous
brow
diminish
;
though
that
way
viewed
its
grandeur
does
not
domineer
upon
you
so
.
In
profile
,
you
plainly
perceive
that
horizontal
,
semi-crescentic
depression
in
the
forehead
's
middle
,
which
,
in
a
man
,
is
Lavater
's
mark
of
genius
.
But
how
?
Genius
in
the
Sperm
Whale
?
Has
the
Sperm
Whale
ever
written
a
book
,
spoken
a
speech
?
No
,
his
great
genius
is
declared
in
his
doing
nothing
particular
to
prove
it
.
It
is
moreover
declared
in
his
pyramidical
silence
.
And
this
reminds
me
that
had
the
great
Sperm
Whale
been
known
to
the
young
Orient
World
,
he
would
have
been
deified
by
their
child-magian
thoughts
They
deified
the
crocodile
of
the
Nile
,
because
the
crocodile
is
tongueless
;
and
the
Sperm
Whale
has
no
tongue
,
or
at
least
it
is
so
exceedingly
small
,
as
to
be
incapable
of
protrusion
.
If
hereafter
any
highly
cultured
,
poetical
nation
shall
lure
back
to
their
birth-right
,
the
merry
May-day
gods
of
old
;
and
livingly
enthrone
them
again
in
the
now
egotistical
sky
;
in
the
now
unhaunted
hill
;
then
be
sure
,
exalted
to
Jove
's
high
seat
,
the
great
Sperm
Whale
shall
lord
it
.
Champollion
deciphered
the
wrinkled
granite
hieroglyphics
.
But
there
is
no
Champollion
to
decipher
the
Egypt
of
every
man
's
and
every
being
's
face
.
Physiognomy
,
like
every
other
human
science
,
is
but
a
passing
fable
.
If
then
,
Sir
William
Jones
,
who
read
in
thirty
languages
,
could
not
read
the
simplest
peasant
's
face
in
its
profounder
and
more
subtle
meanings
,
how
may
unlettered
Ishmael
hope
to
read
the
awful
Chaldee
of
the
Sperm
Whale
's
brow
?
I
but
put
that
brow
before
you
.
Read
it
if
you
can
.
