: The keeper of Red Horse Pass by Tuttle W C Wilbur C - Western stories; Ranch life Fiction

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INTRODUCTION Page xxiii

One of the Star worlds--Strangeness of its customs--The Narrator and his aspirations--Former state of Montalluyah--Wars--Increase of population and decrease of supplies--Can man be brought to seek knowledge as ardently as money?--The Narrator's meditations, labours, and advancement--Faith

The beggar seeks admission to the Palace--The incident which brings him to the Narrator--Some account of Vyora--Appointed Chief of the Character-divers--Reflection

Maturing plans--How received by the Counsellors--Narrator's resolution--Prepares for death--His triumph--Subjects of Legislation

Secret powers in Nature--Effectually wielded by the Good only--False Prophets--Narrator carries out his plans without bloodshed--Great feature of the System--Mighty consequences--Evils forced to contribute to Good--Examples--Insects--Hippopotami--The Fever Wind--Lightning--The Sun--Seasons of Darkness--Fears of the People--Darkness changed to Light--The City radiant--Music and rejoicing

Grave duties entrusted to them--Stronghold of evils to be eradicated--Men of Genius following antipathetic occupations--Early eradication of faults and development of qualities--Visits to Schools--Defects--One routine for all characters--Neglecting minor qualities in Boys of Genius--Precept-cramming--Bad habits--Character-divers created--Sole occupation to discover Child's early tendencies--Duties distinct from those of Preceptors or Fathers of Knowledge--Germ of evils destroyed

Remedies employed vary with characteristics--Absence of violent punishment--Children to be raised, not degraded--Animals not corrected by blows--Example--Pupil not corrected by the imposition of tasks--Child encouraged to regard study as a privilege--Correction effected by gentleness--Time, labour, &c., bestowed unsparingly--Even when fault seems eradicated fresh tests applied--Adult offenders--Child of genius watched with reference to superior refinement--Economy of sparing nothing in educating the future man--Lists of faults occupying attention of the Character-divers--Results--Small beginnings lead to incurable vices and disease

Secondary position of Tutors in former times--Now honoured--Aid given by the Character-divers, &c., to Narrator--Young men of special aptitude educated for the office--Their astuteness--Example--Subjects of tesselated pavements--Zolea--Early evidence of artistic talent often deceptive--Narrator's early talent indicating him as a harpist--Guided to other studies

Power of the Sun--Colours and forms in the sky--Situation of Montalluyah--External World Cities--Reasons for uniting them-- Peculiarities--Straight lines--Variety of colour, &c.--Subterranean seas--Great cataract and water-lifts form background of palaces and statues--Hanging bridges--Health studied--Baths--Violet streams-- Trees--Birds--Artificial nests--Perfumes--Harmonious sounds--Chariot wheels and horse's hoofs noiseless--Red light--City full of animation--Recurring change of scene

Elevation of tides immense--The aerial mountain--Electric agencies--Sea carries away the heart of the mountain--Receding waters leave upper part suspended--Mountain arm stretches out through the air over land below and over the sea--THE GREAT CATARACT--Upper City built on Suspended Mountain--The Middle and Lower Cities built on indent and foot of mountain--PAST CATASTROPHES--Threatened dangers--Terrible consequences--Principle of preventing evils--Stupendous work undertaken--The wonder of Montalluyah

Important facts formerly unknown--One electricity only supposed to exist--Not then utilised for locomotion, &c.--Paucity of contrivance for collecting electricities--How the scientific men supported their theory--Like causes produce like effects--Many kinds of electricity--Means of drawing out and concentrating electricities discovered--Man, beasts, birds, &c., possess an electricity of their own--All differ--Huge fish--Docks for extracting electricity from--Electric store-house--Non-conducting pouches--The attracting electricity adapted to each body is well known--MODE OF CATCHING WILD BIRDS

Means formerly employed--Vivisection and surgical operations painless--Nerves of sensation only, affected by the luller--Energy of the functions considered essential--Pain-luller, how discovered--The Nebo bird and the child--The broken limbs and absence of pain--Discovery

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