The Captain, with a half-guilty secret to confess, and with the prospect of a painful and stormy interview before him, entered Mr. Osborne's offices with a most dismal countenance and abashed gait, and, passing through the outer room where Mr. Chopper presided, was greeted by that functionary from his desk with a waggish air which farther discomfited him.

From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical, […]

What holds all these disparate forces together, along with such latter-day utopographers as [Burrhus Frederic] Skinner and Aldous Huxley (in Island, not in his earlier satire of the positive utopia, Brave New World), is faith.

Man does vvith dangerous Curioſity / Theſe unfathom'd VVonders try: / VVith fancy'd Rules and Arbitrary Lavvs / Matter and Motion he reſtrains, / And ſtudy'd Lines and fictious Circles dravvs; […]