Friday, May 23, 2014

the savor of analogical probability


May 23, 2014
CHAPTER 75 The Right Whale's Head

In the central blinds of bone, as they stand in their natural order, there are certain curious marks, curves, hollows, and ridges, whereby some whalemen calculate the creature's age, as the age of an oak by its circular rings. Though the certainty of this criterion is far from demonstrable, yet it has the savor of analogical probability.

All Excerpts From

Melville, Herman. "Moby-Dick." Harlequin, 2009. iBooks.
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