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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

Properties of optical instruments increased by electricity-- CONCENTRATED LIGHT--The illuminated worm--Light attracted by the enticer-machine--Concentrated light in Music--Human voice and musical instruments--Union between the soul and perishable portions of man--Concentrated light within us--Similarity of terms applied to the brain and to vision--Strength to the intellectual powers--EXPERIMENT ON LIVING MAN--Electrical currents in brain--How agitated--Rarity of the experiments--Serious consequences to patient--Conditions imposed, and advantages secured, to him--Not allowed to marry

High rank of Physicians--Former and present duties--Periodical visitations--Microscopes--Perspiration indicating disease--Exact nature of disease not shown--Example--Ordinary appearance of perspiration--Lung disease and consumption--Lung dew--"The Scraper"--The breath

Insects contain valuable electricities--Whole crops destroyed by them--Mode of capturing, &c.--Impurities removed by insects--The DEATH SOLACE

Subjects of some of the pictures in the Narrator's "Internal World" Palace

Tendency of her education--Happy and contented--Marked difference in education of the two sexes--Beauty aided by early care--Former practices and consequences--Ravages of time--Women now lovely in age as in youth--Beauty regarded as a precious gift from Heaven--Cosmetics for its "preservation"--Wrinkles--Skin and complexion--Hands and feet--CHOOSING BY HAND--How effected--CHOOSING BY FOOT--Expedients used when hand or foot inclined to coarseness--GIRL'S DORMITORIES--Cleanliness--Separate sleeping-rooms--Reasons--Communication with night-watchers--Precautions--Mode adopted to ensure early rising-- Prayer not till after repast--Reason why old custom changed--Careful discipline until marriage--Luxurious habits permitted to married ladies--Instance of the elastic "frame" cushion--The self-acting fan

Means taken to secure congenial husband--Marriage councils--Choice of husband, how arranged--Maiden's right to nominate--The thirty-one evenings--The girl, how distinguished--Gentlemen who wish their pretensions to be favourably viewed--The unwilling--Efforts of pretenders--Agitation on the thirty-first evening--How the maiden proclaims her choice--The presentation of flowers--Subsequent meeting of the parties--Betrothal--Consequence of maiden failing to declare preference--Second meeting--Third meeting rare

Trust reposed in marriage councils never abused--The dress of shame--Rich costumes of married ladies--Brilliant colours imparted by the sun--The silver-green silk--Sun silk--Women instructed in the ART OF PLEASING--Former habits of married women--Example on children--Deceit

LADY'S COSTUME--The waistcoat--Tunic--Trousers--Anklets--Trimmings-- Colours--Sandals--HEAD ORNAMENTS--Soles to protect the feet--The fan--Precious stones--Turbans--Canopy--Long veils--Distinctive feature for the unmarried--Elaborate costumes allowed after marriage--GENTLEMAN'S COSTUME

The civil marriage--Purification of the bride--The hair--The tree-comb--Marriage costume--Marriage ceremony repeated after birth of each child--Religious ceremony--Suspended in case of dissensions--Efforts for reconciliation--Contingencies provided for--An instance

Very beautiful--Their names given to Stars and to Women--Flower language: long conversations carried on by means of Flowers--Instances of Flower Language--Displeasure expressed through the medium of Flowers--Instances of Flowers with meanings attached

Mode in which nature operates--Vitality of seed--Consequence of injury--Production of leaves--Of colour--United electricities form gatherings--Important discovery--Sap, the reservoir of electricity--PROCESS FOR CHANGING FORM--PROCESS FOR CHANGING COLOUR--For giving fragrance--THE LUANIA--SUN-FORCING

The Spangled Mountain--The reviled beauty--Slander and its promulgators--The Legend of Zacosta--Fall of her Tormentors--Happiness of the higher order of Spirits--Slander regarded with horror--Motives of the Slanderers--The King of the Air--The loving little animal--The ingenious instrument for discovering diamonds--The pet animal--The Meleeta--The Turvee Insect--Shooting Stars--Whale Electricity--The Martolooti--The Flower of Grace--The Chilarti--The Allmanyuka--The perfume of the everlasting gulf--The Hippopotamus hide--Fat of the Serpent's head--The Mestua Mountain--Wet thy feet--Stainers' fount-- Water--The Mountain Supporter

Madness not formerly recognised until violence shown--The GIRL AFFECTED WITH MONOMANIA.

Worn as distinctive marks--Age entitles woman to privileges--Age regarded as an honour--Orders of the Matterode, and Mountain Supporter--Qualified decoration, &c.--ADVOCATES of the individual and of society--Privilege belonging to every woman

How ideal of beauty formerly obtained--Not equal to the actual living model--Beauty now the rule--Longevity--Beauty in old age--Summary of expedients--Value of the course adopted--Importance of care from earliest infancy--Subject of babies--Importance of little things--Maladies owing to injudicious treatment of children--March of "small" effects--Precautions now taken

Value of minute precautions--Diseases caused by want of healthy exercises--Accidents to the infant--Blows on the head--The inventions of Drahna--The four sets of machines--The TEETH--The eye--The nostrils--The tongue--Air, &c.

An essential part of the boys' education--Formerly same exercises for all--Now adapted to physical organization--Medical man observes effects--The heat of the brain a test--Bathing--Leaping--TREE-EARTH BATHS--Qualities of the earth about various trees--The oak, the weeping-willow, elm, horse-chestnut, &c.

Description--Girls' amusement gallery--Boys--Different natures and characters revealed--The Character-divers

For Children are short--Services adapted to different ages--Evils attendant on former system--Present course--Subjects of Sermons-- Children encouraged in affection to Parents, &c.--Preacher assisted by method of education--Objections to Parrot-like repetitions

Care taken of animals--Change of pasture--Irrigation--Causes of diseases formerly prevalent--Shade--Illness--Great increase of flocks and herds--THE MALE ONLY USED FOR FOOD--Consequences of killing the mother--In slaughtering, all painful process avoided--Mode adopted--Wholesomeness of meat tested by analyzation of blood--PROTECTION OF MEAT FROM INSECTS--Protective Infusion--CRUELTY TO ANIMALS--Punishment

Determination to discover the germ of disease--The people afflicted with a painful malady--Children not attacked--Hypothesis--Stimulating spices--Anatomical examination--Decree forbidding use of favourite condiments--The spices collected--Temporary substitute provided--Meditation and prayer for help--The grafting and the eventual result-- Incomplete--The cream-lemon vegetable--Mode of proceeding--The "Insertion"--The root-oil--The little white bud--The anxious watching--The basket and its contents--The testing--Qualities of the Allmanyuka--The people's praise--The Tootmanyoso's gratitude--Results different from any before obtained--Description

Made from leaves of trees--Peculiarities--Process of manufacture-- Healthful fragrance--Colour--"Natural" paper--GOLDEN COLOURED PAPER--Its connection with the Allmanyuka--The incident which led to its discovery

Consumption--Why generally beyond cure--Erroneous views--The patient--Examination by the doctors--Their mistake--Narrator's belief--Potion administered--Death--Cause discovered--Mode of detecting and curing the disease in its germ--Assemblage of the multitude--Episode of the mother and the child--The sequel

XL.--THE HARP.

The principal musical instrument--Description--Four sets of chords--Strings of electricity--Marvellous variation and depression of the notes--Echoes and responses--Diapason changed to an extraordinary extent--Different characters of sound produced--Examples--Harp language; how taught--Accompaniments--Harp beautiful as a work of sculptural art--Movement of birds, flowers, and foliage, and exhalation of perfume in accord with the music--How idea was suggested

Amusements enjoined--Learned men prone to seclusion--Wisdom of requiring studious men to cultivate social relations questioned--Twenty men selected for the experiment--Result--The works of the "Seclusionists" and of the "Society-Sympathisers"--The MONOMANIAC--His eccentricities and cure--Convert to the Narrator's views

Arenas--Electricity--Why arenas open to the sky--Games exhibited-- Beautiful effects produced--MAN and HORSE--The FLYING CHILDREN--WILL--DEAF AND DUMB CHILD--The MONKEYS--Tragic Drama--Races and public games--Parties for children--Labouring people--The aged--Districts--The middle-aged--INTRODUCTION of strangers--Ceremony observed--ATTRACTING-MACHINE

Peculiar form and construction--Former shape--Effective model sought--"Swan Ships"--Dangers of navigation--Ship sometimes submerged--Sufferings of the passengers for want of air--Remedy--The swan's head--Captain's quarters--Vessels propelled by electric power--Machinery--Steering and stoppage of the vessel--TIMBER FOR SHIPS--How seasoned--How protected against insects in every part--The COMPASS--The ANCHOR--Peculiarity of its formation: how let out and hauled in--The Bison ropes

Interesting discoveries--Microscopic pictures transmitted from a distance--Picture made of a landscape and persons afar off--Picture of swan-vessels and passengers--How effected--Bottom of the sea rendered visible

Invaluable--Antipathy to human beings--Hippopotamus' hide--Impervious to water--Resistance to destroying forces--All parts of the animal utilised--Parts subservient to the beautiful--Hippopotamus' land--Numerous herds--Their keepers--How attired--The herb antipathetic to hippopotami--How discovered--Experiment with the young beast--Antipathetic solution keeps animals away from cities--They love fresh-water rivers--The Aoe waters prejudicial to man--Mode of rearing Hippopotami--Precautions adopted--Why they have not been able to rear animal in Western Europe--Recommendations--Habits of the animal--The hippopotami--dance--How the young one is separated from the mother--How a hippopotamus is removed from the herd--The food of the hippopotamus in general

The Serpent--The Boa--Professors to examine medicinal and other properties--Modes of capturing wild beasts--Huntsmen--The iron-work net--The watch-hut--The bait--Dead animals not allowed in the city--Habits of the tiger--THE TIGER AND THE CHILD--THE UNICORN

The palace--Communication with auxiliary tower--Observatory--STAR INSTRUMENT constructed--Secrets revealed--Inhabitants and atmospheres of the stars differ--Invisible beings--The SUN-OCEAN, Mountains, and Continents--Winds--Attracted by the heat--Brilliancy increased by reflection--Every planet has electricity sympathetic or antipathetic--Different appearance in Montalluyah--Fixed stars--Comets--Overflowings of the waters--Waters in space--Conclusion

INTRODUCTION.

The name of "Montalluyah," which more immediately belongs to the chief city in the planet, is not incorrectly extended so as to include the entire sphere. This new world is not made up of separate countries and mutually independent states like those of the Earth, but, forming one kingdom, is governed by one supreme Ruler, assisted by twelve kings inferior to him in rank and power.

The speaker in the fragments was the son of one of the twelve kings, who by his genius and worth became "Tootmanyoso," or supreme Ruler. In the planet his name is mentioned with even more reverence than, by different peoples, is paid to that of Zoroaster, Solon, Lycurgus, or Alfred; but he has this peculiarity that he does not fade, like many other great legislators, into mythical indistinctness, but is himself the exponent of his own polity.

It must not, however, be supposed that this great legislator was the first to rescue his world from mere barbarism. The founder of civilization in Montalluyah seems to have been a very ancient sage named Elikoia, to whom brief reference is made in the following pages. Prior to the reign of our Tootmanyoso the people had passed through various stages of civilization, under the guidance of many wise and good men. Still the polity was defective, for the country remained subject to crime, misery, and disease.

The proverb that "Prevention is better than cure," to which everybody gives unhesitating assent, but which is often forgotten in practice, lies at the root of most of the reforms, both moral and physical, effected by the Tootmanyoso. The policy of prevention--that is, of destroying maladies of mind and body in the germ, before they had been allowed to spread their poison--was one of his leading principles. Under his influence, the physicians of Montalluyah made it less their duty to cure than to prevent disease, therein differing widely from our practitioners, who are not usually called to exercise their skill until a malady has been developed, and has perhaps assumed large proportions.

Under his influence likewise it was thought better to diminish moral evil by extirpating faults in the child, rather than by punishing crimes in the man.

Another prominent feature in the polity of the great Legislator of Montalluyah is the occupation of every person in the intellectual or physical pursuit for which he has been fitted by natural qualifications, developed and fortified by culture. Nobility, position, and wealth are made to depend on merit alone, ascertained by a mechanism which neither favouritism, ignorance, nor accident can affect. These laws may for an instant seem to partake of a democratic tinge; but it will be clearly perceived that the regulations concerning the institutions of property and marriage are diametrically opposite to those which have rendered the theories of Communists so generally hateful.

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