caption: Escape and Secret Life
content: **Reclusive Life**: After 1800, Faria chose to live in seclusion on a small island, continuing his academic research and beginning to write a monumental work on human intelligence and history. He lived a simple life on the island, but his intellectual world was exceedingly rich. Despite his reclusion, Faria maintained contact with the outside world through secret couriers, conveying his thoughts and research findings, and gradually established a mysterious and esteemed position in the intellectual community.