Great moment of escape

Dotted with beautiful engravings, the adventures of some northerners thrown on an island lost in the Pacific in Richmond after escaping the breakaway ball where they were held captive. As always with Jules Verne, is the description of an extraordinarily civilized microcosm to which the technique opens Paths of Glory, under the friendly eye of God. Cyrus Smith was the engineer, the high priest of scientism that illuminates the lives of his companions by his miracles. Beginning humbly by making fire with watch glasses, he finally transform the island into a large farm that settlers heading from their eyrie - accessible by elevator only, please - and it lacks soon a currency that "civilization" is fully transposed this ark which no human had set foot until then, or at least that's what we believe. The modern reader will certainly not appreciate this story as his great-grandfather. To set a target to destroy all the predators on the island, divert a lake, domesticate animals that can be and relentlessly hunt the others, in a word fight against nature rather than trying to reconnect with her one hypothetical primitive bond, that's no longer up to date for sure. Science has done too much harm since, and we learned to consider each of its progress in the light of the precautionary principle. Yet we still can not be transported by the technical exploits of the heroes whose productions remain within the environmentally respectable. In those days, there was no plutonium or plastic; a man could disappear from the face of Earth without burdening future generations of its waste, and this is the good old days and not to our future than reading "The Mysterious Island" makes us dream now.