A Sequel to Don Juan — page 87: what you’re looking at

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78 A SEQUEL TO IX. Man has a very great antipathy To being deemed the next link in creation Unto the monkey-tribe ;—and yet we see The fact borne out beyond all refutation. Thus the superior intellect, which we Possess, springs from a higher sublimation Of matter.—But you’re doubtless wearied out, Kind reader, by the things I prate about. >. I only wish that I could call to aid The Genius of Ubiquity, to lend Her plumage, for I should not feel afraid To traverse all the earth, from end to end, And teach the doctrines I have here displayed, Certain that he alone can be the friend Of weak humanity, who dares confess The truth which millions labour to suppress. XL, Crotona’s sage, ’tis said, was once espied In two towns at the self-same moment ;—yet Balloons had not been at that period tried, Nor on their voyages a€rial set. But now ubiquity is not denied, And in twelve hours a person may be met In London and in Weilburg, by his friends :— Thus have balloons together brought earth’s ends. GComicbookszcom