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Nature Vs. Knowledge

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I have given no small attention to that not unvexed subject, the skin of the whale. I have had controversies about it with experienced whalemen afloat, and learned naturalists ashore. My original opinion remains unchanged; but it is only an opinion.

Chapter 68, The Blanket · verse 1

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