By 1968 the majority of secondary polytechnicals and some of the eight-year schools had begun to do so, the figures being to some extent representative of the stage of development of the region concerned.

The new story opens with our hero Perseus (Sam Worthington) as a widower and single father, his curly proto-mullet signaling that he has given up on soldiering and is determined to live as a simple fisherman.

In th' Empyrean Heaven, (the bleſs'd Abode) / The Thrones and the Dominions proſtrate lie, / Not daring to behold their angry God: […]

They set monopoly rates; they regulated ever-changing financial markets; they nurtured a whole cradleful of delicate industries, from ocean shipping to nuclear powered electric generation.