curious, vast a whale see world small eye, hear thunder ear smaller a — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, Whale

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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

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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