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, 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.

What a really beautiful and chaste-looking mouth! From floor to ceiling, lined, or rather papered with a