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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
87
This
state
of
things
appeared
to
me
at
first
to
be
beyond
the
limits
of
possibility
in
the
external
world.
My
mind
was
for
some
time
occupied
by
reflecting
upon
the
extraordinary
difference
in
the
natural
condition
of
the
internals
and
externals;
and
I
commenced
a
comparison
of
the
varieties
and
objects
of
industry
in
the
two
worlds,
and
of
those
necessities
and
habits
which
demanded
the
products
of
labour.
This
brought
me
to
a
clear
view
of
the
matter.
I
perceived
that
the
greater
part
of
the
labour
of
the
externals
was
devoted
to
the
production
of
things
useless
or
pernicious;
and
that
of
the
things
produced
or
acquired,
the
distribution,
through
defects
in
our
social
organization,
was
so
unequal,
that
some
few
destroyed,
without
any
increase
of
happiness
to
themselves,
the
products
of
the
toil
of
multitudes.
Instead
of
devoting
our
time
to
useful
purposes,
and
living
temperately
on
the
wholesome
gifts
of
Providence,
like
the
blest
internals,
so
as
to
preserve
our
health
and
strengthen
our
minds,
thousands
of
us
are
employed
in
producing
inebriating
liquors,
by
the
destruction
of
wholesome
articles
of
food,
to
poison
the
bodies,
enervate
the
minds,
and
corrupt
the
hearts,
of
our
fellow
beings.
Other
thousands
waste
their
strength
to
procure
stimulating
weeds
and
narcotic
substances
from
the
extreme
parts
of
the
earth,
for
the
purpose
of
exciting
diseased
appetites,
whereby,
in
the
case
of
those
who
possess
good
things,
the
ability
to
enjoy
them
is
destroyed.
Still
greater
numbers
give
their
industry
and
their
lives
to
the
acquisition
of
mere
matters
of
ornament,
for
the
gratification
of
pride,
an
insatiable
passion,
which
is
only
stimulated
to
increase
its
demands
by
every
new
indulgence.
I
saw
that
the
internals
owed
their
happiness
to
their
rationality,
to
a
conformity
with
the
laws
of
nature
and
religion;
and
that
the
externals
were
miserable,
from
the
indulgence
of
inordinate
passions,
and
subjection
to
vicious
propensities.
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