"So long as a man's eyes are open in the light, the act of seeing is involuntary; that is, he cannot then help mechanically seeing...

"Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters." Musing: The title of this...

"But why say more? All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the...

"Almost forgetting for the moment all thoughts of Moby Dick, we now gazed at the most wondrous phenomenon which the secret seas have...

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously...

"But not only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien to it, but it is also a fiend to its own off-spring; [ . . . ] . Like a savage...

"The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a...

"We know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one...

"Indeed, in other respects, you can hardly regard any creatures of the deep with the same feeling that you do those of the shore. For...

"Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called...