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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
104
CHAPTER
X.
Containing
some
account
of
the
strange
rationality
of
the
Symzonians.--Their
simplicity
of
dress.--Manner
of
making
cloth.--Circulating
medium.--Taxes.
The
friendly
reception
which
had
been
given
to
me
by
the
Best
Man,
and
his
commands
that
information
should
be
freely
communicated
to
the
stranger,
were
a
sufficient
introduction
for
me
to
the
notice
and
kind
offices
of
this
benevolent
people.
They
required
no
other
evidence
that
my
rank
was
sufficiently
elevated
to
render
me
a
fit
associate
for
them,
than
the
fact
that
the
Best
Man
had
found
my
conversation
so
interesting
as
to
induce
him
to
pass
several
hours
in
my
company.
I
was
visited
by
all
classes
of
the
community,
and
gave
scope
to
my
eager
desire
to
possess
myself
of
all
the
useful
knowledge
and
science
possessed
by
the
most
intelligent
of
the
people.
I
gave
my
attention
in
the
first
instance
almost
exclusively
to
the
Wise,
in
expectation
of
finding
their
conversation
most
instructive;
but
I
soon
found
that
like
our
philosophers
they
were
more
given
to
abstract
theories
than
to
practical
knowledge,
and
would
contend
for
hours
to
establish
some
fanciful
hypothesis,
to
the
neglect
of
plain
and
practical
subjects
of
inquiry.
I
therefore
turned
my
attention
to
the
Good
and
the
Useful,
who
never
spoke
on
subjects
they
did
not
understand,
and
whose
information,
though
not
so
abstruse
as
that
of
the
Wise,
extended
to
all
matters
of
established
utility.
Moreover
they
could
be
implicitly
relied
on;
for
having
no
favourite
hypotheses
to
maintain,
and
no
selfish
ends
to
answer,
they
explained
every
thing
to
me
frankly
and
in
an
intelligible
manner.
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