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the strangest thing on that strange ship was the fact that
there was such a course. Many theories were offered about
this, none quite satisfactory; but it was understood that the
ship was to be steered due north. The best and bravest and
wisest of the crew would dare the most terrible dangers, even
from their comrades, to keep her on her course. Putting
these things together, and noting that the ship was obviously
framed and equipped for the voyage, I could not help feeling
that there was a port somewhere, though I doubted the wisdom
of those who professed to know all about it. I resolved to do
my duty, in the hope that it would turn out to have been my
duty, and I then felt that there was something bracing in the
mystery by which we were surrounded, and that, at all events,
ignorance honestly admitted and courageously faced, and
rough duty vigorously done, was far better than the sham
knowledge and the bitter quarrels of the sickly cabin and
glaring lamplight from which I had escaped.

Was there ever a nobler parable more nobly expressed?
It may well end the last page of the last chapter of The
Adventure of Living.

-496-

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Adventure of Living: A Subjective Autobiography (1860-1922). Contributors: John Loe Strachey - author. Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1922. Page Number: 496.
    
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