Erewhon Revisited
Erewhon Revisited
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ven his cordial support, was curtly announced as closed
before it had been opened a week; it had met with so little success
that I will not specify the amount eventually handed over, not
without protest, to my father; small, however, as it was, he
narrowly escaped being prosecuted for trying to obtain money under
false pretences.
The Geographical Society, which had for a few days received him with open arms, was among the first to turn upon him--not, so far as I can ascertain, on account of the mystery in which he had enshrouded the exact whereabouts of Erewhon, nor yet by reason of its being persistently alleged that he was subject to frequent attacks of alcoholic poisoning--but through his own want of tact, and a highly-strung nervous state, which led him to attach too much importance to his own discoveries, and not enough to those of other people. This, at least, was my father's version of the matter, as I heard it from his own lips in the later years of his life.
"I was still very young," he said t
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