The Brain of the Sperm Whale

The brain is at least 20 feet from his apparent forehead, hidden away behind its vast outworks. Some whalemen deny that the sperm whale has any other brain than that palpable semblance of one formed by cubic yards of as sperm magazine. If you unload his skull of its spermy heaps, and then take a rear view of its rear end, which is the high end, you will be struck by its resemblance to the human skull. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul. I rejoice in my spine.