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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
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CHAPTER
XIII.
Recreations
of
the
Symzonians.--Wonderful
provision
of
nature
for
supplying
the
internal
world
with
light.--Character
and
employments
of
the
women
of
Symzonia.
I
visited
the
place
of
recreation,
a
neat
plain
rotunda,
in
the
centre
of
an
extensive
flower
garden,
where
the
young
people,
the
middle
aged,
and
the
old
occasionally
convened,
to
extend
their
knowledge
of
one
another,
interchange
their
thoughts
by
conversation,
listen
to
the
most
exquisite
music,
and
practise
a
variety
of
graceful
and
elegant
exercises.
Being
all
very
fond
of
music,
they
all
join
in
that,
by
turns,
as
in
other
performances.
Sometimes
an
hundred
instruments,
and
many
hundreds
of
the
most
exquisite
voices,
filled
the
whole
place
with
the
most
enchanting
sounds.
The
exquisite
beauty
of
the
women,
the
graceful
dignity
of
the
men,
the
chaste
decorum
and
sincere
politeness
of
all,
charmed
the
mind,
and
delighted
the
heart.
Here
there
were
no
temptations
to
vice
by
offers
of
seducing
cordials,
wines,
agreeable
decoctions,
or
other
intoxicating
drinks,
as
in
our
places
of
resort
for
recreation.
The
enjoyments
of
this
refined
people
were
intellectual
and
pure--not
the
debasing
gratifications
of
animal
passions
and
sensual
appetites.
The
soft
reflected
light
of
the
sun,
which
was
now
no
longer
directly
visible,
gave
a
pleasing
mellowness
to
the
scene,
that
was
inexpressibly
agreeable,
being
about
midway
between
a
bright
moonlight
and
clear
sunshine.
I
had
great
cause
to
admire
the
wonderful
provision
of
nature,
by
which
the
internal
world
enjoyed
almost
perpetual
light,
without
being
subject
at
any
time
to
the
scorching
heats
which
oppress
the
bodies
and
irritate
the
passions
of
the
inhabitants
of
the
external
surface.
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