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1The central body of it is hidden in the snowy sparkling mist enveloping it; and how can you certainly tell whether any
2water falls from it, when, always, when you are close enough to a whale to get a close view of his spout, he is in a
3prodigious commotion, the water cascading all around him. And if at such times you should think that you really
4perceived drops of moisture in the spout, how do you know that they are not merely condensed from its vapor; or how do
5you know that they are not those identical drops superficially lodged in the spout-hole fissure, which is countersunk
6into the summit of the whale's head? For even when tranquilly swimming through the mid-day sea in a calm, with his
7elevated hump sun-dried as a dromedary's in the desert; even then, the whale always carries a small basin of water on
8his head, as under a blazing sun you will sometimes see a cavity in a rock filled up with rain. Nor is it at all prudent
9for the hunter to be over curious touching the precise nature of the whale spout. It will not do for him to be peering
10into it, and putting his face in it. You cannot go with your pitcher to this fountain and fill it, and bring it away.
11For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapory shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin
12will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it. And I know one, who coming into still closer
13contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view, or otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off
14from his cheek and arm. Wherefore, among whalemen, the spout is deemed poisonous; they try to evade it. Another thing; I
15have heard it said, and I do not much doubt it, that if the jet is fairly spouted into your eyes, it will blind you. The
16wisest thing the investigator can do then, it seems to me, is to let this deadly spout alone. Still, we can hypothesize,
17even if we cannot prove and establish. My hypothesis is this: that the spout is nothing but mist. And besides other
18reasons, to this conclusion I am impelled, by considerations touching the great inherent dignity and sublimity of the
19Sperm Whale; I account him no common, shallow being, inasmuch as it is an undisputed fact that he is never found on
20soundings, or near shores; all other whales sometimes are. He is both ponderous and profound. And I am convinced that
21from the heads of all ponderous profound beings, such as Plato, Pyrrho, the Devil, Jupiter, Dante, and so on, there
22always goes up a certain semi-visible steam, while in the act of thinking deep thoughts. While composing a little
23treatise on Eternity, I had the curiosity to place a mirror before me; and ere long saw reflected there, a curious
24involved worming and undulation in the atmosphere over my head. The invariable moisture of my hair, while plunged in
25deep thought, after six cups of hot tea in my thin shingled attic, of an August noon; this seems an additional argument
26for the above supposition. And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly
27sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapor, engendered by his incommunicable
28contemplations, and that vapor--as you will sometimes see it--glorified by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its
29seal upon his thoughts. For, d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor. And so, through
30all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a
31heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have
32intuitions. Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither
33believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.
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