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ground below a paying yield ; when whaling 

 stops till the whales breed back. But soon 

 they won't breed back at all. Modern steam 

 whaling spares no kind of whale in any 

 kind of sea. It has one good point. It 

 is more humane, as a rule. But the odds 

 against the whale are simply annihilating. 

 And the extermination of whales, those 

 magnificent leviathans of the mighty deep, 

 would be a loss from every point of view. 

 Their own commercial value counts for a 

 good deal. Their value to the fisherman 

 by driving bait inshore counts for a good deal 

 more. And their admirable place in nature 

 counts for most of all. Like elephants, lions, 

 and deer, like birds of paradise and eagles, 

 the whales are among those noblest forms of 

 life, without whose glorious strength and 

 beauty this world would be a poorer, tamer, 

 meaner place for proper men to live in. 



