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Far
back
on
the
side
of
the
head
,
and
low
down
,
near
the
angle
of
either
whale
's
jaw
,
if
you
narrowly
search
,
you
will
at
last
see
a
lashless
eye
,
which
you
would
fancy
to
be
a
young
colt
's
eye
;
so
out
of
all
proportion
is
it
to
the
magnitude
of
the
head
.
Now
,
from
this
peculiar
sideway
position
of
the
whale
's
eyes
,
it
is
plain
that
he
can
never
see
an
object
which
is
exactly
ahead
,
no
more
than
he
can
one
exactly
astern
.
In
a
word
,
the
position
of
the
whale
's
eyes
corresponds
to
that
of
a
man
's
ears
;
and
you
may
fancy
,
for
yourself
,
how
it
would
fare
with
you
,
did
you
sideways
survey
objects
through
your
ears
.
You
would
find
that
you
could
only
command
some
thirty
degrees
of
vision
in
advance
of
the
straight
side-line
of
sight
;
and
about
thirty
more
behind
it
.
If
your
bitterest
foe
were
walking
straight
towards
you
,
with
dagger
uplifted
in
broad
day
,
you
would
not
be
able
to
see
him
,
any
more
than
if
he
were
stealing
upon
you
from
behind
.
In
a
word
,
you
would
have
two
backs
,
so
to
speak
;
but
,
at
the
same
time
,
also
,
two
fronts
(
side
fronts
)
:
for
what
is
it
that
makes
the
front
of
a
man
--
what
,
indeed
,
but
his
eyes
?
Moreover
,
while
in
most
other
animals
that
I
can
now
think
of
,
the
eyes
are
so
planted
as
imperceptibly
to
blend
their
visual
power
,
so
as
to
produce
one
picture
and
not
two
to
the
brain
;
the
peculiar
position
of
the
whale
's
eyes
,
effectually
divided
as
they
are
by
many
cubic
feet
of
solid
head
,
which
towers
between
them
like
a
great
mountain
separating
two
lakes
in
valleys
;
this
,
of
course
,
must
wholly
separate
the
impressions
which
each
independent
organ
imparts
.
The
whale
,
therefore
,
must
see
one
distinct
picture
on
this
side
,
and
another
distinct
picture
on
that
side
;
while
all
between
must
be
profound
darkness
and
nothingness
to
him
.
Man
may
,
in
effect
,
be
said
to
look
out
on
the
world
from
a
sentry-box
with
two
joined
sashes
for
his
window
.
But
with
the
whale
,
these
two
sashes
are
separately
inserted
,
making
two
distinct
windows
,
but
sadly
impairing
the
view
.
This
peculiarity
of
the
whale
's
eyes
is
a
thing
always
to
be
borne
in
mind
in
the
fishery
;
and
to
be
remembered
by
the
reader
in
some
subsequent
scenes
.
A
curious
and
most
puzzling
question
might
be
started
concerning
this
visual
matter
as
touching
the
Leviathan
.
But
I
must
be
content
with
a
hint
.
So
long
as
a
man
's
eyes
are
open
in
the
light
,
the
act
of
seeing
is
involuntary
;
that
is
,
he
can
not
then
help
mechanically
seeing
whatever
objects
are
before
him
.
Nevertheless
,
any
one
's
experience
will
teach
him
,
that
though
he
can
take
in
an
undiscriminating
sweep
of
things
at
one
glance
,
it
is
quite
impossible
for
him
,
attentively
,
and
completely
,
to
examine
any
two
things
--
however
large
or
however
small
--
at
one
and
the
same
instant
of
time
;
never
mind
if
they
lie
side
by
side
and
touch
each
other
.
But
if
you
now
come
to
separate
these
two
objects
,
and
surround
each
by
a
circle
of
profound
darkness
;
then
,
in
order
to
see
one
of
them
,
in
such
a
manner
as
to
bring
your
mind
to
bear
on
it
,
the
other
will
be
utterly
excluded
from
your
contemporary
consciousness
.
How
is
it
,
then
,
with
the
whale
?
True
,
both
his
eyes
,
in
themselves
,
must
simultaneously
act
;
but
is
his
brain
so
much
more
comprehensive
,
combining
,
and
subtle
than
man
's
,
that
he
can
at
the
same
moment
of
time
attentively
examine
two
distinct
prospects
,
one
on
one
side
of
him
,
and
the
other
in
an
exactly
opposite
direction
?
If
he
can
,
then
is
it
as
marvellous
a
thing
in
him
,
as
if
a
man
were
able
simultaneously
to
go
through
the
demonstrations
of
two
distinct
problems
in
Euclid
.
Nor
,
strictly
investigated
,
is
there
any
incongruity
in
this
comparison
.
It
may
be
but
an
idle
whim
,
but
it
has
always
seemed
to
me
,
that
the
extraordinary
vacillations
of
movement
displayed
by
some
whales
when
beset
by
three
or
four
boats
;
the
timidity
and
liability
to
queer
frights
,
so
common
to
such
whales
;
I
think
that
all
this
indirectly
proceeds
from
the
helpless
perplexity
of
volition
,
in
which
their
divided
and
diametrically
opposite
powers
of
vision
must
involve
them
.
But
the
ear
of
the
whale
is
full
as
curious
as
the
eye
.
If
you
are
an
entire
stranger
to
their
race
,
you
might
hunt
over
these
two
heads
for
hours
,
and
never
discover
that
organ
.
The
ear
has
no
external
leaf
whatever
;
and
into
the
hole
itself
you
can
hardly
insert
a
quill
,
so
wondrously
minute
is
it
.
It
is
lodged
a
little
behind
the
eye
.
With
respect
to
their
ears
,
this
important
difference
is
to
be
observed
between
the
sperm
whale
and
the
right
.
While
the
ears
of
the
former
has
an
external
opening
,
that
of
the
latter
is
entirely
and
evenly
covered
over
with
a
membrane
,
so
as
to
be
quite
imperceptible
from
without
.
Is
it
not
curious
,
that
so
vast
a
being
as
the
whale
should
see
the
world
through
so
small
an
eye
,
and
hear
the
thunder
through
an
ear
which
is
smaller
than
a
hare
's
?
But
if
his
eyes
were
broad
as
the
lens
of
Herschel
's
great
telescope
;
and
his
ears
capacious
as
the
porches
of
cathedrals
;
would
that
make
him
any
longer
of
sight
,
or
sharper
of
hearing
?
Not
at
all
.
--
Why
then
do
you
try
to
"
enlarge
"
your
mind
?
Subtilize
it
.
Let
us
now
with
whatever
levers
and
steam-engines
we
have
at
hand
,
cant
over
the
sperm
whale
's
head
,
so
,
that
it
may
lie
bottom
up
;
then
,
ascending
by
a
ladder
to
the
summit
,
have
a
peep
down
the
mouth
;
and
were
it
not
that
the
body
is
now
completely
separated
from
it
,
with
a
lantern
we
might
descend
into
the
great
Kentucky
Mammoth
Cave
of
his
stomach
.
But
let
us
hold
on
here
by
this
tooth
,
and
look
about
us
where
we
are
.
