Squeezing the Sperm Whale

"I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me, and i found myself unwittingly squeezing my co laborers hands in it," he writes. "Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, lovely feeling did this avocation beget." He adds: 'Why should we longer cherish any social aserbities or know the slightest ill humour'