Which excerpt from Chapter I BEST shows that
the narrator
others?
believes his book is beneficial for
*And when l think of the number of unhappy ones
to whom I offer never failing resource for weary
moments, and balm for the ills they suffer, my
heart filled with inexpressible satisfaction.*
The pleasure to be found in travelling round one's
room is sheltered from the restless jealousy of men,
and is independent of Fortune.*
"No longer will I keep my book in obscurity. Behold
it, . .. read it! I have undertaken and performed
forty-two days' journey round my room.
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.'