With reference to the Polar bear, it might probably be urged by him who would fain go still deeper into this matter, that it isn’t the whiteness, individually regarded, which heightens the insupportable hideousness of that brute; for, analysed, that heightened hideousness, it is perhaps stated, solely rises from the circumstance, that the irresponsible ferociousness of the creature stands invested in the fleece of celestial innocence and love; and therefore, by bringing together two such reverse emotions in our minds, the Polar bear frightens us with so unnatural a contrast. Witness the white bear of the poles, and the white shark of the tropics; what but their clean, flaky whiteness makes them the transcendent horrors they are? But there are other situations the place this whiteness loses all that accessory and strange glory which invests it within the White Steed and Albatross. Aside from those more apparent concerns touching Moby Dick, which could not but often awaken in any man’s soul some alarm, there was another thought, or slightly obscure, nameless horror regarding him, which at occasions by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest; and yet so mystical and effectively nigh ineffable was it, that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form.
Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances magnificence, as if imparting some special virtue of its personal, as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls; and though varied nations have indirectly recognised a certain royal preeminence on this hue; even the barbaric, grand outdated kings of Pegu placing the title “Lord of the White Elephants” above all their different magniloquent ascriptions of dominion; and the trendy kings of Siam unfurling the identical snow-white quadruped within the royal customary; and the Hanoverian flag bearing the one determine of a snow-white charger; and the good Austrian Empire, Cæsarian, heir to overlording Rome, having for the imperial color the identical imperial hue; and though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man best mastership over each dusky tribe; and although, apart from, all this, whiteness has been even made important of gladness, for among the Romans a white stone marked a joyful day; and although in other mortal sympathies and symbolizings, this identical hue is made the emblem of many touching, noble things-the innocence of brides, the benignity of age; although among the Red Men of America the giving of the white belt of wampum was the deepest pledge of honor; though in many climes, whiteness typifies the majesty of Justice within the ermine of the Judge, and contributes to the day by day state of kings and queens drawn by milk-white steeds; although even in the upper mysteries of probably the most august religions it has been made the symbol of the divine spotlessness and energy; by the Persian fire worshippers, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and within the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow-white bull; and though to the noble Iroquois, the midwinter sacrifice of the sacred White Dog was by far the holiest festival of their theology, that spotless, faithful creature being held the purest envoy they may send to the great Spirit with the annual tidings of their own fidelity; and though directly from the Latin word for white, all Christian priests derive the identify of 1 part of their sacred vesture, the alb or tunic, worn beneath the cassock; and although among the many holy pomps of the Romish religion, white is specifically employed in the celebration of the eagerness of our Lord; though within the Vision of St. John, white robes are given to the redeemed, and the 4-and-twenty elders stand clothed in white earlier than the nice white throne, and the Holy One which sitteth there white like wool; yet for all these accumulated associations, with whatever is candy, and honorable, and sublime, there yet lurks an elusive something in the innermost concept of this hue, which strikes extra of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood.
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Goney! never had heard that identify earlier than; is it conceivable that this glorious thing is completely unknown to males ashore! Ultimately the Captain made a postman of it; tying a lettered, leathern tally round its neck, with the ship’s time and place; after which letting it escape. I cannot inform, can solely trace, the things that darted by me then. But how can I hope to explain myself right here; and but, in some dim, random method, explain myself I have to, else all these chapters is likely to be naught. What skiff in tow of a seventy-4 can stand still? A 2012 police report claimed that forty suicide deaths were directly related to abuse by Catholic clergy in the state of Victoria. It repeated the rule that any Catholic who failed for over a month to denounce a priest who had made such advances in reference to confession was robotically excommunicated and could be absolved solely after truly denouncing the priest to the Ordinary of the place or to the Holy Congregation of the Holy Office, or not less than promising critically to do so. At intervals, it arched forth its huge archangel wings, as if to embrace some holy ark. I assert, then, that in the wondrous bodily whiteness of the chicken mainly lurks the secret of the spell; a reality the more evinced in this, that by a solecism of terms there are birds referred to as grey albatrosses; and these I have continuously seen, however by no means with such feelings as after i beheld the Antarctic fowl.