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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
115
Three
or
four
thousand
years
had
now
passed
away,
and
doubts
were
entertained
whether
this
were
matter
of
genuine
history,
or
an
ingenious
allegory,
intended
to
present
to
the
people
a
glowing
picture
of
the
evils
which
might
follow
a
gross
departure
from
purity
of
life
and
rectitude
of
principle.
There
were
very
few
who
could
conceive
it
possible
that
human
nature
had
ever
sank
to
such
extreme
depravity,
and
that
so
great
a
proportion
of
mankind
had
been
enslaved
by
evil
passions,
as
to
render
the
wicked
the
most
numerous.
In
general,
therefore,
it
was
supposed
that
Fultria,
willing
to
exhibit
a
magnificent
specimen
of
his
genius,
and
being
somewhat
under
the
influence
of
vanity,
as
Wise
men
often
are,
fancied
it
possible
for
such
a
deplorable
state
of
corruption
and
violence
to
happen
in
a
long
course
of
ages,
and
stated
an
imaginary
case,
as
an
excuse
for
constructing
his
tremendous
engine.
I
did
not
express
my
opinions
on
this
subject,
for
I
thought
it
most
discreet
to
conceal
the
fact,
that
such
a
state
of
things
actually
existed
in
the
external
world.--My
silence,
however,
did
not
avail;
for,
having
put
my
books,
among
which
were
Ree's
Cyclopediæ,
Shakspeare's
works,
Milton's
Paradise
Lost,
and
many
volumes
of
modern
history,
poetry,
and
novels,
into
the
hands
of
Surui,
I
was
soon
called
upon
for
explanations
as
to
what
was
true,
and
what
fictitious.
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