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Synopsis
Excerpt from The Modern Odyssey, or Ulysses Up to Date
A heavy burden of responsibility rests upon the Shoulders of the adventurer who, regardless of the trouble and anxiety which his conduct may entail upon future gene rations, sails to unknown seas and lightly discovers a new country. All that watchful care for the interests of posterity, which Should never be absent from the thoughts of the prudent, is banished from his mind. A thrill of selfish joy electrifies his frame as the stem of his boat grates upon the strand. He eagerly leaps down, makes an intaglio of ten toes on a virgin Shore, and gives the name of his sweetheart to the most prominent feature of the scene. He hastily takes for granted that he has con ferred a benefit upon mankind, and returns to his native land full of pride, and bequeaths to the world a legacy that cannot be repudiated.
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