"Many humans feel something special for whales, even when they have never seen a whale.
What in whales stirs our conscience is hard to tell. We know that some animals can
generate strong feelings of sympathy and compassion. But whales don't have fur; and also
they cannot be cuddled, so what makes them so special? Could it be their genius? Let me
again quote from Herman Melville's epic Moby Dick: "Genius in the Sperm whale? Has
the Sperm whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in
his doing nothing to prove it"."
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