Which excerpt from Chapter I BEST shows that
the narrator believes his book is beneficial for
others?
*The pleasure to be found in travelling round one's
room is sheltered from the restless jealousy of men,
and is independent of Fortune."
*And when I think of the number of unhappy ones
to whom I offer a never failing resource for weary
moments, and a balm for the ills they suffer, my
heart is filled with inexpressible satisfaction.*
What more glorious than to open for one's self a
new career,-to appear suddenly before the
learned world with a book of discoveries in one's
hand, like an unlooked-for comet."
"No longer will I keep my book in obscurity. Behold
it,...read it!
have undertaken and performed a
forty-two days' journey round my room.