Physiognomical View of the Sperm Whale

Physionomically regarded, the sperm whale is an anomalous creature. Has no proper 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 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 jolly boat,. Your noble conceptions of him are never insulted by the reflection that he has a nose to be