-RA DI OGRA PH Y-

volume of medical fair'y tales (Medicinische l\<fa:rchen)." One

of the stories, entitled "Electra" it is said, .. tells of a young
doctor coming into possession of.a mysterious box, the contents of
which made organisms of every kind transparent." The date of
Dr. Hopf's book is not mentioned, but as it is said to be .. some
little time ago," it may be presumed to be recent.
The following quotation, however, will show that the discovery
was foreshadowed more than twentv vears alZO bv the late Dr.

centuries, is a remarkable tribute to the inventive ingenuity of the

age in which we live. The passage referred to will be found at
page 105 of Vol. III, and is as follows:-
•• I perceived the Secundines could not only make glass and
stones and all inorganic substances malleable, but possessed a
power undreamed of by man of making them transparent
When I expressed my surprise at the power of robbing minerals
of their opacity, they at once took steps to reinforce my amazed·

case, showing beneath the working of the muscles; in others the

skin and muscles were pellucid, showing the circulatory system;
in others all was perspicuous, save the bones, with the view of their
being subservient to the study of osteology; while in others still,
the whole body was vitreous."
Dr. Blair wa~ a man of original genius, constantly making ex·
periments in chemistry, and the allied sciences, and it is not im·
probable ~e may in some of his experiments have stumbled on
 If the contenIB pr- thM, and be //If' thll _. IIIf'JlO8t 1M ""'" of 1M moon
/If' whom Uwu wilt to be the authofo. BARTON.
 ANNALS OF THE

TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY;
OR,

~it ~ntabiagrnpill .at tgt Irtsibtnf .at

~tirlg t~t !

• .ar~- Jtpttblit. .

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. 1

1Lonbon~

SAMUEL TINSLEY,
1~ SOUTHAMPTON STREE~ STRANn
1874.
[The right of tratUlat10n u ru_ea.]
OBANOICllY LANIC, 111.0.
 CONTENTS OF VOL. I .
•
CHAP. PAGB
I. INFANCY 1

MODERN RISE • • 38
VL CALORIC DEPOTS - THE WORLD'S FACTORY
AND FOUNDRY • 50
VIL THE GEOGRAPHICAL REFORMATION 60
RElIIovAL OF THE MOUNTAINS 68
"

XII. THE WORLD'S RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLy-GEO-

GRAPHICAL REFORM.A.TION • 132
XIII. THE EARTH'S PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT AND
ITS NEWSPAPER • • 140
XIV. MOUNTAIN TORPEDO EXPERIMENTS • 144
 L.ll.'.lU .l\UU.lI.1:\ .1;1'

XIX. My RETURN A.S A. Mmrmn OF THE WORLD'S

PA.RLlA.HENT 213
Xx. ASSEMBLAGE OF THE WHOLE HUMAN FAMILY
-THE WORLD'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. 222
 TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.
---
rnT A nm-p"[) T

O.u.a..u;;-Ua.UCll" .l:'G~ll GO GU~u/J~UC~a..I:'llJ' ~J ~ll-

clination surrenders to duty. Providence

having made me president of this sman star
in His boundless domains,-an office so insigni-
ficant in His eves, but vet so important to the

Our Lord, July 4th, 2776. Of my lineage, it

is enough that it can be· traced to our common
parentless parents, in the year of the world one.
Of the hundreds of links between them and
-". I' "
2 'T'HF. 'T'WF.N'T'V- NTW'T'H r.F.N'1'Tmv_

out, oy tracmg hIS pealgree mto the <larK, pre-

millennial ages, would find, in the history of his
forefathers," the stains of every enormity and
criminality; and that, for one of whom he
urnnlcJ lunT." t>QnQ'" fn ",,,,,nlt>'" fl.",...." urnnlt1 ht>

- -
the soundest education, his works alone betray
his worth. My mother, whose wisdom first
directed my steps towards good, was the
daughter of Parry Franklin, the ex-Governor

CiUJ.Vll, wt::n; UllCllCq ut::J.-t::u u y UllY pt::CUJ.J.i:I.J."J.L y.

Plato rejoiced that he lived in the same age
as Socrates. I have had equal cause to be
grateful I belong to the present age. My
feeble ambition would have Dined under that
 INFANCY. ' 3

and not exporters of wisdom. The eye .of

progress must view with glowing delight the
many brilliant leaves over which history has
since turned, and the sight of education from

yore liney enJoyeu line vacalilon. VY nere ury

rules were dispensed we have experiments.
There are diagrams and illustrations in place
of dull type. Instead of imprisoning pupils
. within RtonA walk hinoinp'thAil' hoOlp.R to

science at its- head-quarters, politics in Parlia-

ment, and common-sense everywhere.
Theology and Biblical history forming the
Atlas upon which the other branches of educa-
 HOly Land, and the other .tllollcal arenas.
, With Jerusalem as our head-quarters, book
after book of the sacred volume was assimi-
lated as mental and religious food" under
.....1. i ,,1. ,.,.on;",l ,1;",,;T\l;no t.1.o hll,1" "f nnr

amid the theatres of ancient history. In the

morning we would breakfast at Marathon, at
mid-day dine at Thermopylre, in the afternoQn
follow the route of the devastation expeditions.

UIUUUY lIHf.CK. Ul lll:UIlllUUI, UllU UIlUIl lJl"UCe lIUe-

gory footsteps of Moloch's great ambassadors

-the blood-thirsty Xerxes, Darius, Cyrus,
Pyrrhus, Philip, Scipio, a~d Antiochus, visit-
inQ' in our course the various fields where.
 INFANCY. 5

LllVUl:S/;I,llUI:S VJ. .l1.UI:JJ.I:S, J.ll/;l,I:SI:S/;I,C!"t,:U uy \.J/;I,J.lJ.I:S, ,llU,U

. cried for vengeance.

In these pilgrimages I feasted my mind
upon ancient history with all the zest of a
knowled!!'e-devourin!!' enicure. and. as a dessert

are such studies I In biography we find

practical moral philosophy-the true science
of living and of life. In the study of wit and
humour we are taught to discern their deli-
.,

sports aerial, terrestrial, or aquatic. With

-electric wings I oft soared to the margins of the
atmosphere, with submarine equipments I oft
frolicked in the depths of the ocean. I could •
lives had I possessed so many, and been the
victim of ancient surgery. In addition to
sixteen miscellaneous fractures and disloca-
tions, my ribs were broken eleven times, my
, ".. ,

which heaved my soul over this achievement I

can never forget. Instinct seemed to whisper
to me that my life's mission might perchance
call me to a lofty and sublime sphere of use-

fully united within the compass of a cubic

centimetre, it bears on its face a chronometer
with the unsolved puzzle of former days - a
cycloidal pendulum. Coiling around it are a
1 .,_
"
 would have involved twenty separate instru-
ments large enough to have filled a cart.
The etchings on the tablets of my memory
of the day on which I left my home in Africa for

'-'

and its electrical wings being in full flap, is

soon ploughing on through cloudy seas. Under
'us the country, like a vast panorama, rolls
westward, revealing cities in all directions liko

museo.~, 11 ne saw, as ~ now 0.0, plOugns cuttmg

up one hundred furrows simultaneously, and

doing to perfection in a few minutes what was
once only done imperfectly in we~ks.
T JJl~o ViPUT =it,h, intprp~t. HPriHl p.rHft,~ p.ro~iOI-
 did the inventor of artificial wings think they
'Would be used for love-making, and that wooing
in the clouds would become the most favourite
of all species of courtship.
A •. _ _ l ___ L' . . . ____ l_.L= __ 1. __ =__ .. ___ L1. __ _

--". --- ---0---

of the earth formed a terrestrial firmament;

while around were countless constellations of
electric-lighted' balloons. Agreeable reflections
were elicited by the spectacle. Below us we

saw the stars of heaven gazing down from their

heavenly places, serene and becalmed. Here,
mused I, are the types of things earthly and.
things heavenly. Below, all is transient and
~h~l'j.~_~ A h_~_ ~ 11 ~ft _ _ ~~_.f..1 ~_;t +~~_", .. ~1

-
 " .,
with the breeze for a pillow and clouds for a
bed, I went to sleep ..
 CHAPTER II.
THE WORLD'S METROPOLIS AND ITS UNIVERSAL
UNIVERSITY.

respl~ndence through the reflection of the morn-

ing sun upon its revolving multi-coloured ruby,
diamond, opal, and amethyst .domes, steeples,
and minarets. If former generations gloried

tation ! Architecture has emerged from its

chrysalis state since science has made diamonds
out of charcoal, topazes, emeralds and sap-
phires out of clay, and rendered these precious
1_.1-"'1 __ -J_ f"\
 1 1:

thus enclasped by the arms of lovely Proserpina L

But the metropolis, beautiful in its parts,
how peerless is its whole! Such an elaboration
of masonic genius! Which of its millions of

"
is, therefore, well worthy to be wedded to archi-·
tecture. Hero are the grandest efforts of the
poetry of the chisel. Here, epics, lyrics, and
cantos in contour and construction breathe the

We now heard the bells chlmmg concertos

and sonatas, those strains which were wafting
delight to so many souls. Flocks of aeronauts
were already out-some driven by the swallows,
 I met Stephenson Watt. Yes, there met.
we before our public life had reached the
period of gestation, and before our names we~e
..
indented on the tablets of history. Our minds
,. - -, 11_

- ......... -~-- ........... J ................ ILN ..... _ ...... - _ ............. _ ... _ ..................

glowing feelings I was then shown this marvel

of the world's marvels by my cicerone.
Covering a larger area than the Constantinople
of the ancients, it is a city in itself. Its streets,

wonders of the world, but these walls comprise

.a thousand wonders more wonderful. They
-embody the shrines of science, art, and politics.
That hall, the large~t on earth, is the world's

-
 THE WORLD'S METROPOLIS. 13~

UV.LU:;.l\.l. VU"V.l va~v.l.lv", "V Wll.l\jU, .lll ".lZOO allU·

height, the Tower of Babel was a mere hovel,

and the botanical gardens with Titans of
trees, whose umbrage might have shaded the
Pyramids.

less Pisgah prospect of the surrounding .country.

With wonder-fraught feelings we inspected the
mammoth telescope stationed here. With' an
aluminium tube like a tunnel, with rhodium
n '" . , .. ,

chamber, with its diamond domes, ruby and

amethyst columns, and pearled pillars, blended
as if in the mould of symmetry, and with its
stained windows interspersing all, to which
14 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY_

p.n:;:I:I~lU,t! Wl~ H.'p'p~c:U·H.HCe VI a WHVle aveHue VI

rainbows. Proceeding to the daguerreotype-

Toom, we witness those telescopic mirrors by
which scenes at great distances can be viewed
bv means of the reflections bein.Q' sent on from

at my request, and I behold my native place,

.3,000 kilometres distant.
We now visit the mammoth microscope,
which appears like a mighty steeple III a

while the ancients prostituted the noble metals

to such ignoble uses as ,bullion and trumpery,
we now consecrate them to the sacred channels
of usefulness. Various objects we view through
 THE WORLD'S METROPOLIS. 15

...-...._, .......... _.. __ ........... _ PJ_...... _ .... _ ....., ...,_ . . _ ... __ .................... , _ ....... "-J

and ripples. In small seeds we see locked up,

arid only waiting for 'the key of Time to liberate
them, numerous harvests of corn; within the
small areas of their pericarps we behold reser-

A breath blown across the area of vision be-

comes a clQud of vapour; corpuscles appear
like fly-wheels. The confervre seem giant
oaks, and the animalculre huge· whales, while
.4.1..~ ~~l~~"l~n ~.l..~~l.. ~n"n~ n~~n 1~~1. 1!1__

~ ~

confines of minuteness. Indeed, were both

instruments a million times stronger, we should
not find an ultimatum in either direction.
Science has already told us that Nature, like
16 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

linepIllars. .11.rounu are DUUli up line organIc

and inorganic compounds, of which the protean
substances, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and
hydrogen, alone fill some leagues of shelving.
(1ommAmol'ativA of thA vi~tOriAM of thA ~~iAn~A_

this little jewel, once valued at two millions of

pounds sterling, had seen such a revolution
that it was now intrinsically worth nothing;
and how chemistry had unmasked the ancient

.... v yyuo yy~vDUvU. ~v~ U~.1V .J.a'p~u.a..1)

and placed in the hands of the mason. Once

only found in small atoms, and when found
embossed in gold, it is now more plentiful than
bricks, and forms the framework of entire cities.
 THE WORLD'S METROPOLIS. . 17

new uses.
We now behold orreries and maps of the
planets and plans of planetary cities. Glorious
circumstance! Sidereal geography is now

bate as to render distinct the vibratory sound

of the milliont~ part of a grain of matter, the
ciliary movements of animalcula, or the growth
caused· by the enlargement and development
t- __ " ____ ~, _1~ ___ ' __ ' __ L'L !_~ ___ ~ ____ 1_. ____'11

---- ~---- -----, --- ---0--0 -- ----- -- ----

tralia, and the music of a concert going on in

South America.
In the architectural department we inspect
the various styles from the primitive to the
 18 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

lormeu 01 me preclOUS s"(;ones, emoosseu In

gold, aluminium, cobalt, nickel, rhodium, and
their alloys. Here are puzzles, enigmas, and
fa~tasias in stone; there are sentiments
crvstallized into ornamentation. and hi storiml

generations should have lived and died in

stone-houses. When the grand masonry refor-
mation did arrive, architecture glowed with a
thousand new graces. No longer were houses

-':;.I.'tj..,,,~vu.g "~~~ .I.-.::;;uu,t::i.l.tJ\.&. .LU.~'p.l.VV.L. ..L'VLI .L.l.ll-

prisoned as now, fire before this raged at

large, and razed whole cities to their founda-
tions-armies of fire-brigades and batteries of
fire-encines warring against the enemy in
 ,T~ WORT.n'R URTROPOT.TR_ Ht

preVIously, the AustralIans had elected Wells

King and Gray Burke as their representatives
in the World's Parliament.
Remaining in-doors during the evening,
...,.0 ff\l'\lr o,lVOTl+O(J'O "f fl." a 11 ...""""n"" ~n

nets, and larks, an orchestra occupying an

acre of benches, and a mammoth musical
machine. Suddenly, an outburst of over-
whelming harmony pealed forth, which swelled
- -

WllUJ'" UJ-gl:Ul-USW iSeeilleu UUlluellLnt1>eU In uur

ears.
The concert ended, Watt and I contrasted
the nineteenth with the twenty-ninth century.
The throats of !!Teat singers were then their
they would be paid more than Handel tor hIs
imperishable 'Messiah.'
 m'lY'l:'l nt.nTTt. ...I'I':'t'1l..Tm nn ..... .1. ....T 01

CHAPTER III.
THE PARLIAMENT OF MAN.

-- --, - .. -- --- --- .. --- --- -----. ----- ---

its elaborate ornamentation. Its spacious dome
and gorgeous domules, its countless galleries
and aisles, its transparent forest-like columns,
and, above all, the genius which crowded its

clopredias, and whose hearts are the hot-beds

·of philanthropy. What a mighty force of
braindom is here! What a concentration of
ability! Before me I see one-half of. the
~n....1A'o ....1n.~ 00 1".1':), 'TWTl"" ~o;.f.,,·:ul (l....cu::l ... O ;'1"1
22 'T''R'F. 'T'WF.N'T'V-NTN'T''R' r.F.N'T'TTRY_

tmeves, ana legIslators wor.R:ea aurmg tne

same hours. God's sun saw parliaments de-
serted, while under gaslight the laws of nations
were equally formed, deformed, or reformed.
llrl+Rln'lZ lsl'tJlTlZ fn... PYRTYlnl" 'tITP"''' hRTYlrrtP...,,(J

patronage, or honours. For centuries the poor

country was misguided by nocturnallegislation~
The very architecture of its house betrayed
the love of its members for comfort and plea-
- - -

ut:; ua. I/l.llf:)' .

The day's business was:-A bill for the further
training of the lower animals, especially the
insecta,-A bill to teach quadrupeds to fly
bv means of electric wine-s.-A bill to reclaim
 "';T'rT.'t T'II.lT"IoTT.I .. ',.,. ....Trn __ .. , . 1 ......,. 0'1

these measures passed unopposed, save. the

last, which elicited the longest debate of the
century, to wit, four hours.
. The arguments of Brindley Telford, the
1~~..:I~_ ~& 4-t;.~ _~_~_~_4- ••• ~_~ 1.. •• :14- _:4-1..

.&.- J -J ~

ness-.nakedness which man ought to cover·

with the thrifty garments of vegetation.
Nature has stamped them with ruggedness,
fierceness, and sterility, to proclaim their use·

ot argument. lienme ;:;meaton charactenzea

mountains as "scabs on the face of fair
nature"; Sostratus Jones as "hunches on its
back"; another declared they were "frowning
-nnoinlrloQ nn fho h"n= nf fho ""o<lf;nn "
'the world.
While the discussion proceeded, I was in-
terested to see individuals in one of the galleries
making peculiar gestures. My curiosity was

A ~

direction, I could not forget, lay in printers

not requiring to leave their offices at all, seeing
the words of the speakers were carried to them
by acoustical tubes.

H.ll-l'uwe~-.lW WUI:I l:naelll:e l:Ullll'U.l-eU (,u (,l1UO\J

times when its soldiers had to fight their battles

on the frigid frontiers of indifference, and
_when the harvest was plenty but the labourers
few!
-of the chandeliers of the city. Perched here,
I -was thus instructe4 by my Mentor:-
"Like all other cities in the world," said he,
"its plan resembles that of the garden-spider's
_ _ .L T.L .L1... ___ _ 11 _____ 1: .L1... _ _ _ _ L __ L _ _ _ _ !1...1_

I J

.nate concentric rings of water, vegetation, and

.architecture around the Lyceum, which forms
its nucleus. Like an island, this kernel is
belted by water, yet spanned on all hands by

bosom 01 J!lora, 10ll0WS a stnng 01 bUllOlllgs,

-comprising fac-similes of the seven wonders of
the world, and all the famous erections of past
times. ,Here are Egyptian masterpieces, in-'
1>1".:1;.... ,... K <lMHIlz. t.l.", 'Pu... <lTYIi.:l tl.", ~nl.TrTlv
of Nineveh. Then follow the artistic glories.
of Greece and Rome, with their ParthenonsT
Pantheons, amphitheatres, and temples. A
duplicate of the Colosslls of Rhodes strides.

~ t:lJ.J.J.'p.lt:l V.l .LJ.la.ua., ~llO .£1.l11aJ.J.J.U.la., a.uu. """.

Peter's. Encompassing this great museum of

buildings is another belt of water, relieved by
lakes at the spots where meet those silver
threads the radial canals, and spanned at all

structed· of artificial ivory, diam,onds, china,

rubies, sapphires, mica, and the egg-shells of
thousands of different species ·of birds. In
another spot we have houses built by chemical
_____ 1.. __ L1.. _ _ =____ 1 _ ____ =_=L_L= ___ _£ __ 1~.:J_
 T1'Tl;' 1> A lH.T A 1IK1<'NT Ill<' 11K A N 21

outskIrts."
"Such a surpassing arrangement! ,. I ex-
claimed. " Every ring of vegetation is acoun-
try in the city, and every circuit of buildings a
l';fTr ;n fha I'nllnf...... r Rua ...-.r atl;-hni> ;Q .,f nnna

of magnificent jewelled bridges we now see?

The gondolas, too, which emboss these waters.
beggar the beauty of the very barge of
Cleopatra."

1ll1.l1J.UlllS U1 lllU~·ll\j;:;lU.W ugUL;:;, Uil U\junil~ U

relation to the concentric and radial streets

below, furnished an affiuent supply of admi-
ration to my young, ravenous fancy. Our
I'.onversation turned UDon the 2'reat reservoir
following century did man realize the enormous
loss he necessarily sustained. Wisdom itself
decreed midnight as a point before and after
which sleep should be an eqUIpOlse. By ob-
I'J'. " .'1'., ,

pieces from the oratorios, and millions were

s~eaming along the streets to church. Acous-
tical tubes were simultaneously carrying the ,
Word of God to thousands unable to attend

it by the Senate. In ancient times, Parliaments

decided measures for the world; in modem
times, the world more justly adjudicates mea-
sures for its' Parliament. Fomnerly there was
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ .L_ .L __.L ___ t..1! ___ !_!__ C! ___ .L _____ !1_..:I
 THR PARLTAMRNT OF MAN. 29

sense ana tne power to attena to !tseH, ana

when wisdom is ever found on the side of
majorities!
The present plebiscite was conducted with
• RllP.h nmazlno- dARnatClh and RAl"Anlt.v. t.hR.t. not.

by pneUmatic-tube to the world's 'booths

or judgment-seat, where the sentiments of
mankind were correctly collected and exactly
ascertained.

1IJ..u:;ao "a" llV~ a VVIJO.L uu.., uau l'VllOU. .c.I'!u.allJ

satisfactory was the circumstance' that the·

majority was ~o decided. By a majority of'
suffrages in the ratio of 4 to 1'8, representing,.
in 'Point of influence and years, the hia-her
armIeS, and. thearnassmg ot ad.equate rna-
-chinery.
Thus, amid universal acclamation, it was
decreed that the everlasting hills should be
 EDUCATION-AQUATIC FARMING. . 31

CHAPTER IV.
EDUCATION-AQUATIC FARMING.

of those famous chemists who, by extracting

aromas from, substances and substituting those
more congenial, revolutionized cookery, and
put the. peach and the turnip on a level, won
'I p __ J_~ ___ rn ___ L_'_ 1' ___1 .J'

-~- • - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0 -- - - - .. ------.

Our classes all the while were seeing every-

thing worthy of a place in our retina, and being
taught those fundamental truths most worthy
of being treasured in the archives of our memory.
32 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

ISU 111g-ClllUU~ly auu llUrmUIllUUlSlY CUlllllllllgmu.,

and with its main gush of water ascending-

four kilometres into the air, impressed me as
breathing the very spirit of sublimity. The
lar.Q'e lake around had eouallv nowerful attrac-

soldiers being drilled.

Our architectural class travelled from pole
to pole for instruction; but probably no- scene
did we view with greater interest than the

been its architects. Its stupendous diamond

base, its ruby and amethyst arches, its laboured
orn~mentation, its embodiment of every precious
stone and metal, its chaste blending- of forms,
 EDUCATION-AQUATIC FARMING. 33

sky, conspire to fill the mind with admiring

awe. But I do not forget that while the
ancient Tower of Babel commemorated the
time when outraged Providence thrust dif-

structure like those meaningless .monuments

of the past, only an empty spectacle. As
in all modern buildings, its ornament is only
a graceful homage to its usefulness. It IS a
______ ~ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1.. ______ ..... _ _ _ _ _ .1 _ 1~'1-______ T_

~ - -- ------ ---- -- -~------- --- - - - - - - , / -

all its parts, the library pleased me most.

Yet it was its smallness which captivated
my admiration. In times past, the writings
found here would have filled five British
 34 THE TWENTY-NIXTII CENTURY.

All this while I studied literature, ancient

and modern, culled sweets from every author,
and .employed my best abilities in mental
scrutiny, and other elementary literary feats.

my five senses, and my ten fingers, in thinking,

reading, and making researches. Now I was
constructing mental fabrications, anon smoo~h­
ing them into simplicity. Now I wasre-build-
___ ~ _______ J.!_

- --- ---- -- -- ----] ----

supplied the material.
. Agricultural excursions formed, also, an
important item in my education. Our class
was transported from latitude to latitude and
 EDUCATION-AQUATIC FARMING. 35

Wl:£llUt:n:JU Uyt:r Yl:£.nums UCtll:£U-UtlUl:S, l:£IlU llUlitlU

all the varieties and peculiarities of oceanic

crops. In referring to the art's advance, our
teacher pointed out how two hundred gene-
rations of amculturists had livAd and diAd

10pment of aquatic farming were worth another

world to man. So brilliant was the reality,
that the retina of man's mind was at first
dazzled with wonder. To the amazement' of

v,",,-,u,l'..L'\:I\A. .LV.&. tJl' '\.1.1. U J U.L.LU.,I..I,... y.&.LUlL.LU ,",,~.l.v1;).

weeds were dignified into sea-crops. By

land and sea agriculture was universal. \
E~ighte~ed science threw its bread on the
waters, and we are reaping- the fruits after
callea tens, marsnes, Wllaernesses, ana aesertS,.
and how Ceres now sweats out of their im-
proved mould the heaviest exactions year after
year.
('!nnpA~lnO' RnfAnv nll1' ('!n'MTT\hAlllZ f,A,l1O'ht.

- - .

trees and shrubs could be cultivated to ten

times their natural size, and be moulded intOo
any form. We saw them shaped into chairs,
tables, doors, frames, planks, sofas, and couehes,
- --

fir cultivated so as to be harder than beech,

darker than mahogany, heavier than rosewood,
and, at the same time, moulded into' extraor-
dinary devices. We saw shrubs developed into
-curiosities, but important in their bearing upon
the arts.
 CHAPTER V.
LONDON-ITS ANCIENT DOWNFALL AND MODERN

~lll'l:l.J.~\.Ia., IIV ~u.o".J.a~.1.a", V~.1.1..u."" V.I. UOI,P"'.1.l, l'Y~~.I.~

we would stay over-night and return to the

capital in the morning.. In one of o'QX excur-
sions we paid a visit to the small country
mal-named Great Britain, and took a sail in

upon its scenes of fallen greatness. Once a

muddle of masonry, forming the hives of one
of the mightiest swarms of saints and sinners
ever huddled in one spot,-once the glory and
.1 _ fO ,1 1.1 11
"
.of the world. But its history, groaning under
the accumulated sins of thirty generations, was .
approaching the gibbet of retribution. Like a
.thunderbolt
. . , ..came the death-blow
~ ,
of its honour.-

..., J v£.&.- ......... 10.;1.., _1lAI......... J ,

~.&..L'" ,., _'-J "-1'-L4,£,"-'.L\oIv'-.&. ""-J "........ ...,

second. Can time ever forget the morning,

while the sun's beams were gaily glittering
upon millions of the city's windows, towers,
and palaces, while the unsuspecting inhabitants

too well understood? Consternation and con-

fusion in a single moment inspired them, for
none doubted but Lonaon was the scene of an
ea;rthquake. The continuance of the frightful.
__ - _______ ..:I __ ~ _________ _ f!1..1 ___ .L~11_~ _____ ______ 11~ ___ ~
jewels, commercial men with their cheques,
while misers, laden with their riches, emerged
from grim retreats, determined to stand or fall
by their gold. Those whose friends were bed-
., ,

ing of the infirmaries and asylums. Fright

and excitement precipitated the deaths of
the dying, and rendered the weak weaker.
Business-men, clerks, labourers, workmen-each

footed, some scarcely clad, thousands covered

only by flimsy sheets, but the saddest of all the
features of the throng • was its inclusion of
so many of the sick, the infirm, and the
.3~ ___ _
 A1

London was a city had its teeming haunts

.and its crowded alleys bt)en 'completely
emptied.
Scarcely had the houses dislodged their
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----- --- -------..,.--- .. --- ._- - - C - - J } ------ 0 - ----

palaces were shattered and ruined. The

downfall of towers, the wreck of masonry, the
.cries of horror, formed a concert of agonies more
·dreadful than ever took place under the auspices

.and columns, and more dreadful the yells of

the alarmed crowds. Instinctively the multi.
tudes, keeping the middle of the streets,
.rushed towards the parks and public squares.
"llT!.+l.. ..n_Y'W'II.....",.n...."".1 n h,1.n. .t'_...._~! _h+ -4-1"£'\.,, c.n'nrl 0 1;171'L
still its ten righteous men. Heaven, therefore,_
sweetened its vengeance with mercy. Fearful
as was this shock, comparatively few lives were-
lost. Providence was pleased to endow the-

~ut: UJ.t:~~-U'pVlli::j,' \;Vlli::jl;.LUlJ.i::j ~lli:U .LllU.Lt:l t:lU.l'~ll-·

quakes were possible, and a general conflagra-·

tion from the fires already raging, inevitable,
they wisely focussed their energies in prevent-
in!!" what was nreventible.

had telegraphed to all parts of Britain for-

empty trains, that the city might be evacuated
with the greatest possible speed. Simultaneously
all the buildings around the stations were de--
,. 'I , " • ., , , • J , ,
had now been so safely protected in the public
parks and squares that little damage accrued
to life or limb. The few hundreds sacrificed
were victims to their vice and avarice. Thieves

.Lf..LuaJ..u/.1.J.J..U::; I.I.l..U::;; U v y v~J.1llJ.t:::;iJ.ll1 Ua.u. \.IVll\...iOlllJ.1.Q,IIt:iU,

in London fifty thousand railway carriages and

ten thousand locomotives. The evacuation,
therefore, proceeded· with commendable speed.
Charity itself ordained the order of the exodus.

of fate were the Government constables and;

officials. All night long they remained at their
posts, witnesses of the unparalleled devasta-
tion, their love of duty transcending the almost
J , TT 11 _1 _ 1 __ ~ ~
 AA

, ing element. The heavens mirrored .the most

dazzling fires the world ever saw. Every
minute the tide of flames increased; lashing
fiery waves into the clouds, and engulphing

--- -- .. ---, --- .- -------0 -- .-------, --- ----.--

tions of the tumult from the destruction of
factories with inflammables, and the explosion
of gas-works and war-magazines, formed some.
of the more prominent items of this most

but one great fUrnace, the fumes from which,

like a mighty screen, seemed as if planted
above. to hide from the sun a sight so
appalling.
 LONDON-ITS ANCIENT DOWNFALL. 45

ascenueu l.U neaven. .r ur wee.K.~ l.ue nre

smouldered and loaded the ether with dust
and .smoke. Not till three weeks after this
judgment could anyone approach. Then
rushed myriads to behold the remains' of the-

but one catafalque of ruin. Where stood

noble stteets, towering mansions, palaces; and
buildings, now extended promiscuous masses
of brick, ashes, dust, and stone. Hovels and

this Carthage of a later age, who sadly read in

this wilderness of waste the retribution due to
the :pride of the British Empire.
But the London of vice and corruption was
46 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

WI:I.WWUlJIl .fiugel:l.11 tsl,I:I.Ule U1 VIUe r l'Y 111:1.11

human power could have obliterated the

crowded alleys, the dens of infamy, the haunts
of sin and vice, save the fell stroke of a
devourin.!! an.!!el ? Thanks be to God for his

world's commonwealth, that the world's sorrows

might be alleviated. ,
Sailing along tlui bel!-utiful windings of the
river, between the resplendent floral and foun-
o. ,.. .. .... .. .......

not one stone being left upon another. The

ruins we viewed as indicative of the fall of a
bigotry, for while education was fettered to
these walls it was hampered and dwarfed.
 LONDON-ITS ANCIENT DOWNFALL. 47

------ ------J 7 - - - - - - - 0 - - - - - ---- - - - ------

from the dead and used his arguments, the

golden words would have fallen upon leaden
ears. 'Midas-like wealth, tainted the very food
()f learning upon which the students should

-intense sensation as their patronage of exhi-

bitions of brute force. The great feature of
the session was a race between some amat.eur
watermen belonging to the respective uni-ver-

...
For fifty years such inane and insane per-
formances continued, though their palpable
effect was to make the students' minds martyrs
to their muscles, and to sow the seeds of betting
48 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

~~~~~ .. ~4~~4.1:'.I:'~~~' ~V4~440~ V~ ~-J' ."~~~ V~4~~~

occasions formed the parade days of the nation's

scumr they were patroniz~d by royalty and
fashion, and while they opened the gateways
of vice, parliament shut its doors upon the

On another occasion Watt and I visited the

atmospheric depot which regulates the weather
in Canada. Here it was discovered that elec-
trical apparatus could control the elements,
~1~~_ "'l..~ ~1~~~ ~_ .en :". ~J.l.. ~1~ .. ..J~ l..-= ____ !_

u u 0

Phoobus from scorching the land on the other,

and by which artificial breezes and artificial
weather are dispensed to the whole world. Ad-
miration rewarded our inspection of the weather-
 T.ONJ)ON-TT~ ANC!TF.NT nOWNFA LT.. 4!)

amo~t ozone mto tne aIr. ny means 01 tne

OI
electrometer, cloud after cloud was dissipated,
and in a few minutes the sun appeared in all
its effulgence. Could even the magic of the
SI_np.1Ant.R hR_VA SI_Rnll'ACI t.o thlR '? Phl10RonhAl'R of'

-
scouted as the fantasy of a madman. 'The con-
jectu,es of our forefathers did not come even
within sight of present realities. The wildest
hyperbole never ventured to suppose man would
~ - -- ~ - - - - - - - -
50 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER VI.
CALORIC DEPOTS-THE WORLD'S FACTORY AND

"
tanti under Mendelssohn Beethoven, who was
commissioned to make certain advances in
acoustics.
An important item then prominent in the

reglOns, not OnlY wltn artmClaJ. oreezes Irom

the equator but with caloric from the earth's
in~erior, it was resolved to make the motive
force thus obtained subservient to drive the
"WlU~Ahl nf Slrt !H;& WAll R.R p.nnt.rnl thA WAR.t.hA1·~
 CALORIC DEPOTS. 51

OVIJIJO.u., a.u.u W~IJ.u. a L.ooaJ. allU J.llUVllHlJaUllJ.IJJ

which shall ever elicit admiration. Boldly

penetrating the crust of these snowy mantled
regions, through the agency of a miIIion of
workers. and a 'proportional bud!!et of machin-

and tunneled their way 'further and further

through the earth's rind. Rocks were blasted,
subterranean streams were stemmed, great
caverns impregnated with poisonous gases were
1"- ." "

UA..LV l"ILAIIU,IL.L.,..,r..NJ ... - ................, - . - .. _ ...................... ~ .... b ........ ....,- IV ......... _ _ ...........

enduring; while railways, pneumatic tubes

.and telegraphs were constructed along the
course~ that the workers in this nether world
might enjoy all the resources of the upper.
52 THE T\VRNTY-NTNTH CENTTTRV.

10rliY mnes, It engenaerea a larger luna 01

heroism than all the wars of the most warlike
ages. It educed more enterprise than had
been expended upon any fifty schemes in pre--'
m111AnniR.1 t.imAR. Wit.h RO lonO' R. linA of Rllnnlv.

thousands of great -and the millions of small

,difficulties which were met and overcome ere
the eightieth mile was reached, and with it
the earth's molten yolk. No sooner was this.

sequently, the day which saw the thermal tubes

extended to them was that in which Greenland
doffed for ever its snowy top-coat, and donned
the gTeen g-arments of Ceres. This part of the
this erewhile barren region.
With mushroom - growth speed rose the
world's factories. Trenches were succeeded
by walls, walls became roofed, and soon the

"V.&..I.\A, 0 ~\A,U."'U'&'.l.UI.I. "'yv.l. U/\J.l.VLLQ '.LLI..L6.1..LU ....,~ VVLI.-

ducted with the greatest possible economy.

Unfortunately, the work was nearly finished
when I received my appointment in the
ehemical corps of this great army of industry.

eentury, when cities teemed with fire-devouring

monsters of machinery, monsters whose vora-
eiousness was such that it was dreaded they'
'would soon C,onsume the whole colliery supplies
f' ., ,,
 - -

after this, when the Greenland factories were

able to supply textile goods to the whole
world. Covering, as the buildings did, so many
square miles, and embracing such a vastness of

~U.l- W HUll UJ.\.l tj tj.L- HUHli:tH tj)' tj~ UtjllU.L\.l LU W J1.1U.11

they could be compared? As to the ocean of

machinery which has now for so many years
performed the world's work, man beholds here
the larl!'est enl!'ines ever constructed. The

rods, shuttles, and beams. Here we are encom-

passed by mountains of raw, uncouth material;
there we stand in the midst of hills of newly
made goods. Here we are surrounded by
 "

teethed jaws of the machinery. Next moment

we behold them torn, triturated and digested,
trimmed into threads, interwoven into patterns,
and, lastly, issuing as acres of linen. What a
_1 ______ L.- ---!L- ___ .L'L~ _ _ _ _ ..l _____ _ .......... l!L_ L_

-----,,['"1 ---- --- --- ---- -- ---- ----0------

blooming in the morning may, in the course of

the, day, go through the gradations of clipping,
washing, bleaching, dressing, spinning, weav-
ing, shaping and tailoring, and be covering the

over the globe, they were now centralized at

the caloric emporium. The earth being but a
mighty· cosmical crucible, it was wisely seen
that artificial furnaces were a superfluity, and
+1-.0"'. ;+_ nnl"IT ~£u'..",; ...ot1 .,.1".0. T'\.o.nt"\ct~n,...'Y'" n.'n,+I"\............_~C'tn.
 •
.fiR Tl'J.... TUT....1\TTV.1\TT1\TTl'J l'....1\TTTTRY_

sary to achIeve thls great oDJect, my entnuSlasm.,

as well as my mere attention, was drafted into
the measure. As the world well knows, the
result of our labours was superior even to our
'UTO

v ~

wonder of the world. Below were the mighty

recesses in which were conducted the melting
of the ore and the smelting of the metals.
Upon the ground were ranges of fusible·pr~of

nlllSwng.
What an amount of metals, alloys, and
amalgams are here daily prepared! What
loads of machinery are daily cast, mounted,
and exnorlec1! HAre R.re !"leAn hill~ of f\OhR.lt.
 ,.

The aluminium department was then, as now,

·deemed the greatest of the sights. Here were
.seen vast pyramids of clay and potsherds
.gradually being swallowed up in a huge yawn-
~ __ __ _ __ ~ 1... _ ~ '--- _ • • , J 1 1 • _ J

the metal was moulded, and for which it was

;80 extensively used by reason of its union
·of levity with durability, and strength with
malleability.

beheld the thousand and one uses which it

.subserved.
Finding 80 much delight in the state of the
..arts in the twenty-ninth century, I was in love,
nlh",;-4- ~.f.J... ;.f.a ...... ~l;+~nnl nnrt.'nrt.TV1I-':Y T-I- o ..... +ll~lo
done by unsweating and unwearying wheels,
and unfatigued and unfatiguable pistons.
Nine-tenths of men were hewers of wood and
drawers of water. Man, made by. God a little

a.u. \..La] .. vu.c

~ll.I..l'~.Lovu.'vu. .LLL .Iv.&.
.I.Q....,VV.L ... .::;;O, VoL

months on end in snail-paced Hoating prisons.

Some more unfortunate still pursued the sacri-·
legious trade of making their sacred tabernacles.
the targets for the shafts of death, and their·

ingly human and mechanical machinery were·

then worked the same amount of time. Long'
was it ere man was released from his over-
burdened manual labours, and the due and
t- l' J
,. - ,1 _ . -,
 -
same machinery. Lastly, there was the com-
bination of the system, in having four shifts.
during the twenty-four hours, each of which
labours six hours.
QIl

CHAPTER VII.
THE GEOGRAPHICAL REFORMATION •

.L.L ..1. •

might clothe sterility with the joys of vernal

bloom and autumnal riches. Never was there
such a talented conclave of the aristocracy of
.SCIence. Its organization and its heroic energy

them together, ana enalJlea them to enJoy all

the advantages of concerted action.
Only three years had ~n their course from
the present tense into the past since the
TY'IA~Hm"'A J.,,,,1 'hAAn ",1nntA,1 'hv P" ...l;QTnAnt_-_
 'l'HF. GF.OGRAPHWAL RF.FORMATION. 61

tlnum ana. pSllamum tllt-nammers ana. oat-

tering-rams of transcendent strength had
been forged, huge diamond boring-engines
constructed, electric engines of unequalled
strenD'th factured. immeasurable auantities of

Above all, the brute. creation had been made

subservient to the acceleration of the work.
Under the leadership of Aldrovandus Ray, a
levy of 40,000 naturalists were engaged for
. ,. . "'"

"::;~'Ol'.u.QI'.LI.UD, ..L,VVV ........... .LLV'"''O.LVD~D' .LVV,VVV.Ll.1.V.I.J.A.O) 0,<

and )5,000 other beasts of draught and burden,.

could be officered with perfect ease by as few
as 100 naturalists. Birds of burden and fish
of burden were in like manner drafted into
62 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

11.1..1.1.0 .I.I..I..I.o,u"J <At.l.l.IL.I..I.V.J.J' Vu..&. .I.I..I..l.6LLIJ] 1'.LV.LLVV.L.LLl.6

campaign commenced. On September 22, 2792,

we were marshalled at our head-quarters in
the Himalayas, when we arranged upon plans
for future action. In these unbounded scope

the master-minds of the world were equal to

the greatest labours. The grandest master-
,strokes of a Hannibal and a Napoleon in tactics
and in rapidity of action were surpassed daily.
·rnl __ 1 __ ~ __ 1 ______________ • __ .J __"I • , ~ __, I

--- - ------0 --- -. -- ---- ------ .. ----- --

intellect. In his brigade I served. Having our
;attention directed to the Andes, we traversed
its four thousand miles with our balloons, eagles, .
condors, and scientific artillery. In our un-
 THE GEOGRAPHICAL REFORMATION. 63

vur gtlUIUgllS{,lSllllSptlUlitlU lIlltl WUUU: UI lIIltl iSUUlIU

of the ridges, our mineralogists their metals,

our ~hemists their elements, and our botani8ts
their plants. Our researches were deemed so
imnorlant that a concentration of all the

plied with caloric from the volcano by means

of thermal tubes. In eighteen hours the
muster was complete. It was now evening,
and the moon, as it shone down upon its

VJ.. UJ..l.JUu..o, u,.uu. UlLI. ";".I.'&'V..L.LLI.Vu.~ ~\J"'La.l. ,U.Vllll.1.a.

Amid the sublime fascinations of music, our

extempore city spent the evening on this virgin
peak.
Next morning not a vestige was left to betray
64 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

uur tlagle~ lltl.U nUWll WnH lJlltlIT nwnan uuruens,

and we had commenced our survey along the
Andes chain. At seven hundred different spots
we blasted enormous 'peaks and crags. The
exnlosions. the most terrific that had heen

blasting, were so fo;rearmed that not a single

accident occurred; while, on the other hand,
seventy-six most precious mineral beds were
discovered. In consequence of these results,

~ .u.~ .l.V.U.V n.LLI.5 J

u.(AI UI O,",~V.LI.U.LJ...U.I \,..IVLl.5'" '{JOD "' AD

held over our researches, and the great army

was then dispersed into its previous divisions
throughout the world. After some further
triumphant explorations, which disclosed some
 TH"F. (!RO(!RAPHTI'AT. RRF'ORMATTOl'IL lUi

was locussea. III Its lUll strength at all the great

mountain ranges, finishing with the Hyma-
layas. Here our researches were summarized,
and among the leaders specially honoured for
+.lu,,; ... Q~;.,nt;~~ ;nt""1'"\;.1;+"7 UTt> ... ., 'R""".,ll T ..,,,,,.,n,,

council, to subject the enormous stores of our

inyestigations to an analysis, and to frame plans
for the proposed geographical reformation.
Nobly they fulfilled their Herculean task.

naa. lasrea. one nour, lilley nau arrangeu upon

plans for carrying out the rough part of the
work, especially in the table-lands, reserving
details for more mature deliberation. Brassey
Rrnm'll 'UTA.!:! sWPooMlno-lv m·ilf'lrAd to lAvv an
66 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY•

...... "ll-5 <;;ll.l.UD. .I. <;;u;;5.1."',Pll'y, "Vll Y UJ."<;;U .I..L.L .I."" 5.1. <>au
network of wires and needles over the whole
globe, was enlisting the services of myriads,
and the entities of the mighty army, in answer
to its call. were hieinll from all latitudes.

mighty army was effected at the Himalayas,

and operations were forthwith commenced.
. The very skies seemed to resound with the
blows of the battering-rams with which art
, .

... - ... ~- ..... ... __. . . . __ . . . . _ . . . . . . . , _ ..... - ..........- ..... ~o ...... __ ..... v-..........-
for miles around. An army of chemists was
busily preparing re-agents, which melted the
rocky structures like salt. Huge lakes of
nitric, sulphuric, hydrochloric, and' hydro-
 THE GEOGRAPHICAL REFORMATION. 67

to transport millions of tons of debris weekI y

by balloons, birds, and by rail, to fill up
superfluous lakes. Two millions of miles of
diamond rails were laid, which, by reason

miles, to supply and repair the artillery for

the mammoth army. Myrmidons of ~ine­
ralogists and geologists were encamped on the
peaks, and, like plunderers, seized <?n all the
. ____! ____ • _ _ .L_' _ _ 1...!_1... ____ .1: ___ 1... ___ 11_.1
 68 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER VII.
REMOVAL OF THE MOUNTAINS.

0- .L o

forces .as to produce the greatest amount of

work with the least expenditUre of labour.
While each division in the millionaire army
had its specific duty, the operations of the count-

strategISt recelved remtorcements to tne extent

of two millions of men, and a proportional
amount of plant. Then arose other armies of
equal massiveness. Brindley Telford, with
+1>"'00 ...... ;11;".... " no; TYlO.... 0",,,,;10,.1 +ht:> TYlnllTItR1TIIl.
was the young In years, but old in ability,
Stephenson Watt. My honoured companion
was too great to allow his distinction to allure
him from the safe bournes of humility. He

',.U::;II0Ull.LllUII.LVll, W.LLll Ull 0)'0 IIV OVO.L), O.A..LOOll~)',

an ear ready .for every cogency, and a mind

~ual to every emergency. Under the force
of his prolific brain, electro-factories, magnetico-
factories. and calorico-factories arose alona- that

unsatiated. His great mind, Samson-like, burst

all obstacles, and he resolved to make the very
clouds and winds of heaven his assistants.
Mustering myrmidons of meteorologists under
...., ,." p .,
dows of heaven to be opened at the cessation
of each day's work, so as to wash down the
debris from the mountain-sides, and thus expedite
the great undertaking. For a while the crude-

avruancnes, ana tne scenes 01 operatIOns onnea

in snow. But Stephenson Watt declared that the-
failure turned outside in could be transformed
into a success. Undaunted, he therefore brought
frrrW'Sl:rtl DTAA.t. Rt.O.,.AR of p.Alo.,.lp. frOTTl fhA nA1D'h_

-
to make Aquarius an auxiliary, Watt, like
another Moses, never came down from the
mountain until his purpose was achieved.
Never, III their Alpine journeys, did Han-
 ". ...

studying the great question of the day; in

nursing the storms, deluging the uplands with
rain, and in modifying the weather. Such was
the programme of each night's meteorological
- __ 1' _ __ T ,1

-----, - - - - - - - - - - - - .. --- ,---- _ _4 _____ -----0-

ments of the Chief Commissioner of the Board
of Weather Control, increased the effect by
blowing great clouds onward to the scenes of
our labour. From thin and small congeries of

rains, and squalls. The ominous silence amid

which the wild frowning tempests were mar-
shalled, foretold the bitterness of the approach-
ing war. The features of the crags and peaks,
..t~_17~~~..t hY7 .j.l.~ hl~~17 ~1~ .. ;:J~ ~Y7~_1.~~..t n~~~~..t
cloud-invested peaks, the signa! was given to
work the pluviofiers. In a moment heaven's
batteries were unmasked, and her artillery was
unlimbered. While the lightning flashed in awe-

....
volleys of the storm. In its wild cannonade,
it lashed against the peaks, and swept down
their Hanks thousands of tons of sand and
stone. The rage and fury of the elements

sun. \:ternal sunsnme now oatnea me moun-

tains and prepared the crags for the occupation
of the denizens of science.
In one Qf the most sacred nooks of my
mpmnrv Rl'A p.hpr1>;hp/l thA l'An11nl>;p.pnp.Pl'I of t.hp
 Such was their violence, that telegraphic mes-
.sages came from other citadels along the peaks,
proclaiming that, as the insulation of some
. wires had been broken, it was found necessary
L ~ , ~ ,1 ., ('I J 1 T J 1

---, .. - -- -~-- ---~~-~ -~- ------- -~~ ---

pelled the clouds. When the sun raised the
-curtain of darkness from the stage of the
-country, what a scene was unfolded! The
mountain-streams were swollen into fivers,

..supplied a remedy, by arranging courses for

the artificial rivers, and enabling the great
-stores of water to bound and rush on in their
,headlong course, without overwhelming the
·'L ____ L __ p1. _______ ~L __ ___ LL ________ _ J! ____ L .... .L~ __
other armies introduced similar plans to for-
ward the great work. Thus was the day
portioned so as to economize labour. In the-
lllormng the mighty explosions were made-'

LUtj ~WTUUllUJ.li~- 'pU:Uli~, W UU u ~.PtjtjU IJlitH uugull

have made magic itself marvel, armaments.

mightier than the mightiest ever led by war--
rior. Glistening in the sun were the bright
sides of myriads of trains of aluminium wa~-

were armies of birds and fleets of balloons.

Soon the imposing aerial and terrestrial squad--
rons had invaded the mountains, when the-
seemmg confusion and wild uproar merged
 ----- --------J--- ---- ---~-----.- -----, .. - - -

amazing sagacity, lifting into the trucks, by

means of their trunks, the larger masses of rock,
while birds of burden undertook the freighting
of the smaller pieces. The trains of laden

troops of the animal creatIOn, III lIke manner,

were renderi!lg man equally valuable assist-
ance. The alertness and expertness, the agility
and prowess, of the lower creation evinced in
4-].,:", lr +....o"'~nn'rl,.1.o.,t
'TD"n.... £l.VT'\..o.n+o"';n.'Tl. nA,..~llaa·

ments of man. It showed how immeasurably

astern of the brute creation was man in cor-
poreal attributes; and that, but for his mind,
he could not have maintained a place in the·
 the mountains and empty carriages were
returning, the animal army all the while
working with an industry that gave the wag-
.gons no rest. On proceeded these perform-

U.LI.V .&.&Nvv.&."'uv ..... tJ.L'-LVfJ V.L ULI....., ~VU..LLUUl..L..I....L' "'"v ... U.6v .....

down the debris, and presented a fresh surface

for another day's onslaught.
But our engineers still aspired after further
improvements. The winds were the next

great stores of force with which they were thus

supplied. Having increased the efficiency of
these machines, they supplied themselves with
a most powerful dynamical store, which, by
., , .. ., , '1 , "
 RF.'MOVA T. 'OF THF. MOTTN'J'A.TNR. 77'

~otnmg pOS8lO1e was len unaone or untnea

by the great iconoclastic armies. By day man,
with his million of machines, thundered upon
the mountains, and by night storms, tempests,
Qnrl trn'l'AntlZ Ql'>t.Arl !lIZ hllZ rlA1AO'!ltAIZ 'I1hA A!l-rt,h
.18 THE TWENTY-NIYTH CEYTURY.

CHAPTER VIII.

practical zoology. In this field of labour, 1

could not but draw my eyes pitifully to the
times when the science was confined to the
bare bones of nomenclature. Up to the

... "
thus lost! And why? Because civilization
waged war against the world's Fauna. The
penchant of those times was blood. The
highest kind of game was man, and the
 ZOOLOGICAL BUILDING • 79

.LU.tl, .uUII U.llJ.l t1.J.lluug .llJ.tl.u UUII LUt) lUWtll-

animals, view this ancient -system with grief.

Zoology has taught us that the members of
the brute creation are not aliens but allies.
Throrurh its advance. the once saval!e beast is

have become beasts of burden. Armadilloes,

moles, ferrets, foxes, worms, rabbits, and
marmots are miners. Birds are messengers
and musicians. Eagles, swallows, and ostriches

.L ........ v vv.a. &AIL U J

sea, the beaver by land, and the unnumbered
genera of Crustacea and Molluscs in both
elements are masons~ The insecta are dyers,
spinners, and wood-cutters. That erewhile
enamellers, willIe mOnkeys work ill every
trade. Even the once-detested bugs and lice
have their employment; and every animal,
from the amaiba to man, has its mission.
Rnf '7nnlnlPU' 1,0" alan fOl1 .....'hf TrIa .... 'hn-nT fn.

boys can ride upon their necks. Some

varieties of modern oxen are as :Beet as the
once-famed Derby racers. . Others are stronger
than the most powerful dray-horses of ancient

trOpICal ammalS to tne ITIgIU regIons. w nness,

too, how proper training has made peace reign
over the great commonwealth of zoology. No
longer does one race of animals live upon
,:a.notlu,l' Vnlt.l1l'A!o! f,:al'A no TYlOl'A on t>,:a"";nn_
 ZOOLOGICAL RTTTLnTNG. 81

me ZOOlOgy Class, ~, alOng wllin

W IDle ill
the other pupils, received great facilities to
study the practical part of the science. We
were engaged in superintending the plaster-
work hv hA.1"JUI.p.lp.R of mR.nv of thp. AOMR.tip.

architectural, and zoologico-mechanical under~

takings. The most important of these was
the Embassy, which, by means of immense
beds of oysters, mussels, periwinkles, and

U.llllL.ll....:a.llliloll.lUll \;U.lll.f!.lCIiCU. ~.llC UCl:I.UII)' ilollU

strength of the work were such as brought

the bridges up to the zenith of modern
excellence.
When further advanced in mv studies. I
82 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

~llUll UUUVLle/S/S pUl' U/S Ull a level WlIill uw·

primitive parent on this important point.

Thanks to the efforts of philosophers, we are
now supplied with a key to the rudiments
of the zooloQ'ical lanQ'UaQ'e. The successes of

Wars, the Crusades and Continental cam-

paigns and invasions, shall only be re-
membered as the scourges and curses of
bygone history.

\.IVllDlI.LU.\.JIJ'Vu.. U] IJllO .1..I...1V.1..1.UovD au\..&. VIJLU::;;.1.0 VJ..

the humbler members of the zoological con-

stituency.
What a mighty enterprise-nay, what an
aggretration of enterprises-is each of these
 ZOOLOGICAL BUILDING. 83

J Vur.LIiD. p.,JILLU.I..L.LI..I.'Ci Vl' ao 1I.L1.0 \.IVll\"i-.;:;;.t'lJ~Vl..L lIV LLl.U.OU~.L

coral from the South Seas, crustacea and

zoophytes from e~ery shore, whales from
Greenland, fishes from every ocean, to con-
centrate them in the line of operations, and

the art of masonry, but how to render their

own secretions their material, and their own
viscera their quarries. By most ingenious
physiological measures these secretions were
, , ., ,.

--... ~-- .........- 1"'--'-'-1 _... ....,_................ _",_..L..L_fV.

of diatoms and the foraminifera, legions of
oysters, cockles, barnacles, whelks, limpets,
and mussels, discharging from their entrails
stores of solid masonry, soon added their
 84 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

".LLVO~ J
V~ U~ ..L\.IAO "" -';:;;.1. 'V I.Ill'Ci.LI. V YY LI. 1I'V5 U,.l.U'V..L.LUD

and excrements.
The whales, sharks, and dolphins were com":·
missariats, who bore huge trains of provisions
for these I!eolocical labourers and masons; and

brought forward land-masons in th~ shape of

hosts of aves and mammalia, insecta and mol-
lusca. The railways groaned under the weight
of the snails, gastropoda, tortoises, and arma-
, ." 1 f' 1 (0. T.TI •

manned the largest etherial navy that had ever

been engaged upon one work. Daily as the mighty
machinery of men, animals, and instruments
, became mightier, the operations veered towards
 -
-day added strength to the hopes of the archi-
tects.
The extraordinary strength of some of the
-coarse-shelled molluscs being noted, the abut-

~~u..l.l1~U J.VJ." lill~lll 1J.Ll~ llll.lSlSl.Vll IiV ~llU.lllt::J. u..uu

veneer the rough work of their fellow-trades-
men.
The first bridge, though the smallest and
most humble of the seven. was the noblest in

nowned in the eye of fame ~han the thousand

-elephant-power machine of our day, so this
bridge, though now infinitely outstripped in
elegance and strength, will be enshrined in the
., It "
,c ---- -------J J------ -- ----- -------0·

strength to their beauty. Over a wider field

than could be grasped by a thousand different
eyes at _a thousand different spots, rose out of
tho water the huge pillars, each crowded with

a11lmals had aU but completed theIr won-

drous commission, and, as if satisfied with
their labours, extraordinary was the extrava-
gance of their gambols and frolics. The
l;,ulof" lo ...'\r" a .... A .... ; ....1-.+; .... ",a 10" "a .... no ~+h

testimony of delight.
The artillery of science was now forwarded
to span the pedestals already raised. The
mightiest agencies in the world were brought
. ,
 used in the great work, and duly built into
I?osition, tested, and found satisfactory. In a
few years, to the joy of the world, posterity
had received one of its grandest legacies.
1 1 1 1 • J j " " •

-------- ------- -- --- r--------- ---r-

into America, and an equal number in the
~---

. procession from America into Euroye, each of

which comprised forty thousand three-story
high carriages and one thousand locomotives,

of the bridge, or were passing and repassing

through its capacious arches. Armaments of
balloons filled the air, burnished with em-
bellishments; while the mammoth menageries
(10

full play.
The splendid success which crowned the
building of the first bridge formed only the
prelude to greater exploits. Bridge followed
'1...~..l _ _ _ _ _ 1... ____ .:1 __ L1... _ _ ~L _ ____ l_______ All

-- -r-------, ---- --- -------, -.---- .. --

forty times stronger, four times broader, and .
infinitely J;llore beautiful than the first, though
its construction only occupied one-seventh of
the time.

sound of hammer nor axe was heard dunng

thy formation. For thee no mortar was
required, nor elaborate scaffolding. Human
hands neither chiselled thy sides nor built thy
 -

~ars of Art, to what peifection has Nature been

-impelled!
 CHAPTER IX.
LIONIZING THE WORLD.

teacher, I will sketch some of the details of our

sojournings. In this pleasing duty, I cannot hit
the eye of my purpose better than by making
the following lines a setting for the various

to see, and our minds to perceive, judge, and

reason.
"About to make a few windings," he said,
" round this small ship in the solar fleet called
.L'L _ _ _ -..L'L __ ..l.L ...... ---! .... _ .L1...-. ............... _ _ _ _ ..l __ ~ __ _
When we consider that Time in ancient days
plundered in a million preventible directions
from travellers, and that weeks were wasted in
prisons on wheels, months frittered away in

"'U..LI..LIU~O, ar..u\.L "Uti.l.-t:i.LV~-t:i llUVV \.LOOp Vu..L .LCi0.pVJ.~O.L-

bilities. Speed has so mended its pace, that

science, with its seven-league boots, can give
us our breakfast at the North Pole, and our
dinner at the South Pole. Already the scene

buildings and gardens. But, behold, we are

emerging into the Sea of Marmora, where we
view around us vessels ,compared to which the
Great Eastern of ancient times was but a pigmy.
to "
,. It ____ J...~_~ _ _ _.
 .no

is a whole range of engines. Of paddles, it has

dozens. Manned by an anny of sailors, some
on horseback, and others who are accoutred
with electrical wings, its power and force are
_ _ '- _____ 1_.1.. _____ 1 __ ~ __ 1!_ ~Ll_ .Ll_ _ 1 ______ - L _~

------, ---- ----- ----

to find their grave. Rivers of bitter tears have.
flowed over the tragedies of seafaring life. Full
many Euphrosynes have been changed into
Niobes through the woes thus engendered. Not

seas. Science, then, with divine energy, burst

the rocks and cleared sea after sea of its snares.
The end was gloriously crowned by having the
·~oasts margined with soft material, on which

~.
 T.TONT7:TNn '1'HF. WOR.T.n_

nngnt mus pnllosopruzea over tne mougnts.

conjured by its scenes :-" Where are now the
isles of Greece? Alas for poetry, but all hail
to science, they are coalesced into the main-
lsmtl_ T,;'lcA ~ll ;1OI1AIOI t.hA'V ~."'A f\hlOlf\lAt.A Rl';ilO"A<>

lopment into the Suez Straits transformed the·

peninsula into the island of Africa. But the
wheel of tiiD.e has re-united the continents by
means of ten mammoth bridges. Look at the

n..u.r.uu.1C QI::i:l.I:I, i:l.llU ~ll~ cu.U-tlI:lPUllU.111g- 11 YptJl"-

trophy undergone by the land. Seas are·
dwarfed into narrow friths, and the whole·
land is irrigated by artificial rivers. Lakes
are obliterated. and islands wedded to the
94 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY•

.r UrIIleny all UIlKIlUWIl aIlU UIlllruuueIl I"eglun,

abounding in deserted deserts, every acre of its
.surface now yields its increase. Famed among
the famous are the pioneers who pierced its
arcana. Above that of conouerors. their Q'lorv

.continent, their researches foretold how the

hitherto unknown heart of Africa would pulsate
with the full vigoUr of commercial life, and
that its aorta, the Nile, would teem with

·UI...... V.a.....,.LLIUD LlllUl'" VU-L "'5-';:;;, U J .I..U.'C}QI.LI.'" V.L .LUi:) .l.Ll.V.L.I.DIU.LVu.o

machines, could take them down and re:-erect

them in half-an-hour! We next hie to Thebes.
When here could our memories fail to bum
with remembrances of the ancient city with its
 LIONIZING TJJR WOR.I.n. 95

as one 01 toe gems 01 tne geograpny 01 tne

millelmium ?
Going on by Abyssinia, we behold the
beautiful country of Sahara. Bright waxed
1'!1nnn~mt SUI hA t.nlrl llR hn-w ~n RnAn hAn hAAn

- -
for the Cape of Good Hope, paying a visit to
the peninsula of Madagascar in passing. We
afterwards travel by the Pacific Submarine
Railway to the South Sea Continent. Lastly,
- . -

"J.U.1t1 lltl.1-t1, uw- JUt111 LUJ.·, J.ll b.pt1t1..I'I..J.11g UJ.

travelling, said, "Up to the nineteenth century

it was a penance plus peril. There were
collisions by land and shipwrecks by sea. To
cross oceans. one was nent un in an aQ'QTeQ'ation
 powertul agents accordmg to the small Ideas
of the times, were merely embryonic. In the
great march of r8.iIway reform, full many a
difficulty was bridged ere the culmination of
.f.l.", nn.:l",,...-non,,n.:l ""<T.,4-"'Tn l."T .....l.;"l. +l. .. ",a,..f.l.

systems," said he, "then belonged to hundreds of

different and indifferent hostile companies, whose
aim was usury, and whose enterprises were
always speculations and often peculations. High

step In me creatIOn 01 orner Irom tOlS coaos

was the growth of the rudimentary schemes of
these stockbrokers into great national railway
reticulations, and the last step was the consum-
TYHIf.lnn nf HIP nl'P!OIpnt. ~ml1nnnnlit.Q.n RVRt.Am

....
 0'7'

pulsations of the great arteries of trade in

the world's anatomy beat with faultless nor-
mality."
" But roads as well as railroads," he went on
.L_ ___ , , ____ _ !1.L'_____ _ .L' .L1.. _ __ !1 !_ .L1.. __ _

- - - - - - - - 0 - ---0 - - --- - c - - . -- - - c - - -- -
collector. Totally reversed is the modern
plan. Nature's carpet, cultivated in a peculiar
way, is our highway. Nature alone is our road-
repairer, so that the dark ages of tolls, road

mg to the ~outh .Pole subterranean station, along

with 4,000 passengers, we enter an itinerating
town of carriages, and, regaled by music, are
soon bowled along at the rate of 1,000 kilometres
1\0

1,000 miscellaneous passengers in a ship towed

by fifty whales. After various excursions about
the Arctic Regions, we land at the North Pole
city. The journey hither seeming so simple,
,. , , "., ~

vours to reach them, only reached martyrdom.

How malignant were the elements in those
days, and against them how weak was man's
defence! How different from the present,

much ease as though he only experienced

summer heat!
Next day we reconnoitered the cities of
Greenland and inspected those great caloric
..l ___ L_ 'L _ _L=_'L _ _ =1..l _l= __ L_ = ____ ..l ____ ..l =_
 whale - back or in diving -bell - boats driven
by walruses,-in the course of which we in-
.spected the rich bed of the Arctic ocean.
Visiting thereafter Hudson's Bay Territory,

.LLur't'.1..L.&.(5 J:lU/.LI.~u. V~ UJ IUUU ..L'V~\I.LI.-" 'VOU..L "'00""'6":';'

we landed on _the west of North America and

spent the evening with one of the many divi-
sions of the mountain iconoclastic army. The
followin~ dav we witnessed some triumphs of

in a vessel towed by salmon, we pay our tribute

to the genius which had married these noble
rivers. Reaching the Canadian lakes, we glance
over the mighty topographical revolutions here,
_ _'1.' 1 '" J' ___ J..!l' _-_,
.. nn

donned their aeronautic equipments and Hew

in a covey to the carnJLge field of Waterloo.
Thence we hied to Rotterdam, and, by way of
variation, we rode up the Rhine on the backs of
• TT· • n. ,

1870 and 1871. Forbach, Wissenburg, Metz,

Gravelotte, Sedan, Orleans, and Paris, where
Moloch had so triumphantly celebrated some of
his great gala days, are successively visited; our

were the playgrounds of kings, but the pur-

gatories of the people. 0 war, where is the
measure whereby we may compute thy crimes
and vexations? The sight of thy enormities
__ :_1...'- _____ .31_ .'-1.._ 1..1 __ .3 !_ .'-1.. _ _ _ _ _ _1.. ___ 1.. ____ r"
 1 ()1

~otre Vame and the Louvre. There they stand

-dark and grim hovels, while all around is glitter

.and magnificence. Yet it was well to spare
these piles. Representing medireval architec-
+.......... .f.l.. .....~ a.f.on..:l 0" ° l"n..:l..".." ...l,.. .f.n "l..n-.n- .f.l.. ...

were once the pride.

Next day we proceed to Switzerland, where
. we spend a few hours in examining the operations
at present in progress for the removal of the

-.l-ne IOlloWlng nay we reVIew III tneIT cnrono-

logical rotation the scenes embalmed in the
history of the world's boyhood. Among other
-cities, we scrutinize with the vigilance of an
.4"'0'11111 TnOilA1"n Tl'OV tSlTnAii tor it!'l Hectors
1 O? TH~ 'l'WF"N'TV_lITTlITTH l'!RlITTTTRV.

ot .Lt!ineas, In a tew mmutes we Una. ourselves

in Rome. It was the passionate wish of St.
Augustine to have seen the Eternal City in its
imperial glory. How much more intense would
ll<lvl' hl'l'n h;" lrmmnfl''' +.n gl'O a nn'tIT 'tIThl'n ;t.J:I.

cars of war produced the downfall of the ancient

city. But the Hannibals, Hannos, andHamilcars
of science have not only effected its regenera-
tion, but invested it with perennial distinction.

WU!C ClllU.ntt;cu .lll UU.l" t.UW", - t;.lL.lCH WLlU;ll,

though desolations in the Middle Ages, have,.

phrenix-like, risen from ashes.
The following day the intricacies and adva\l-
ta1!'es of the nneumatic railwavs were exnlained.
 LIONIZING THE WORLD. 103

tmI:Lmeu lllID ro oe tranSIeITeu almOSli 11l8liI:LlllilY

whithersoever he desired.
Siberia, this erewhile sterile, but now lovely,
land, is next invaded by our sight-seeing band.
Its nrolififl nlR.lmL nrp.!J'T1ant with thp. hnrdens

We next change our camp to China and Japan"

where we remain two d~ys. At Hong-Kong we
bid farewell to this region, descend to the
station, and are forthwith spun round the curve

ll.1.....,U.lJ..l~.l)' UJ. J.II!:! UUllJ.lllt;;.lUt;;. "llil.1J l.Jua..uo~"

time has wrought on this once-stagnant land!

Its volcanoes are caloric depots, its pampas are
. paradises, and its llanos Elysia. The noble
Amazon. erewhile sDouseless. is now ioined in
104- THF. TWF.N'I'Y -NINTH CENTURY •

.meXICO oy one 01 tne ranama nrIQges, our

pitying admiration shed a tear for those men
who unsuccessfully strove to open this door to
two oceans-this clasp binding two continents
-t.hlA ~l1A'7. of t.hp W PQT.A..-Tl H ATrllAnhAl'A 0.onltl

left to bleach unavenged on the belt, of land

they had hoped to cut. .
This ended our excursion, and we there-
fore entered the underground railway here,

enuugeu, anu our 1Il1IlUS enncneu. .l.ll a lew

days we had travelled more than a man in the
nineteenth century could have done in a life-
time. We had seen all the world's lions, had
skinned round a:nd round it.!'! ~ir(mit. R!'! if it. hM
 1{\/'::

November 19, 2794. Then was the enterprise

-commenced of having a complete control over
the temperature of all climes, and of making
t~ earth's caloric subservient to universal use
~_ L'L _ ____ 'L __ ~ __ 1 _ _ _1.J T_ L'L ___ ~ __'LL __________ .r

-------~-- ---------7 ---- -- ----0---0 r-' ~--

·economy of volcanoes. The heroic nature of

. ·our labours, and the victorious sway of our
researches, being aIready recorded in the
register of history, require only a summary

the world, the crater of Mount ~tna. Perform-

ing the great feat of Empedocles, how different
·was the result I The magnificent boldness
·of Ollf explorations, mile after mile, through the
_ _ lL __ _ ..... --= ___ ,. _.............. __ ;! ...._ ..... n n,.1,..,.1"\'I"'\4·" .... ,.,.n _ .... _
are as pregnant with instructIOn as romance.
The feat, unparalleled in history, did nQt incur-
one iota or danger. Our amazing scientific
inventions enabled us to swim with ease through
"'''''n Yrrh';.f.~_1,.I"1.+ ,..... ,....;1"'\..... n ..... ~ ,.L"t...,.~.o,..orl "0 R'ha~_

of their purposes. Caloric emporia were esta-

blished in every latitude, thermal springs and..
geysers introduced into every town, and an
unlimited supply of caloric force supplied, not

worKS or ureelllanu, oy pumpmg up CaIonc

from the earth's yelk. I was promoted for-
my invention, and appointed to supervise my
scheme. The fiery lake was accordingly formed_
lmopr lllV olrp~ti()nR_ ThA mHOTIin~pn~A. lo;np.o
 1()'7

supposed peculiar to Hell alone. Here, how-

ever, was one of immense magnitude, sur-
rounded by an embankment resplendent with
gems, and skirted with fountains and cataracts,.
"VnTn~+;'n"" .fn.......J... ~h~+n_1,."+ 'YY'll"\.l+n....... l;rt..,;,t 'J11,..a~

·past triumphs.
But the caloric reformation achieved still
grander conquests. As politics had seen the
rugged inequalities of society smoothed and

measures 01 tuggIng lceoergs to tne ~quator

were rendered obsolete. Thermal depots were·
80 numerously established that ice was no
longer produced by nature, but only by art.
Tho It "l'l'hl' !'Inri It nt!'l"l'f't.ll' -rAO"lonR. UTA"I'A hAl'It.ArI
the icy monarch unloosed his frigid grasp of
the two Poles for ever. The whole world was
now isothermal; Greenland was rendered-an
Italy, Iceland an Elysium, and the Frigid and
rn ., , ,. • • , ,.. • ...
 10Q'

CHAPTER X.
ANCIENT SCIENCE.

--.- - - - - 0 .. --- --- r- ---r----- ,- -------0 ---

plethoric periods so characteristic of a young,
fiery, undisciplined pen, the book's faults are
such as I need not excuse or palliate.
This is the book's prologue :-

cruel curb of ignorf,i,nce stifled its growth, until, .

. like infantile Hercules, it strangled the serpents:
of elTor and amazed the world by its victories.
Making inroads into every hole and corner
~~ l\,.T~ ...... _~ :. ~1..~_~.1 .1..~ • •1..~ .. ~:~~_"~ _~"
days, who affected to draw logic from ab-
surdities, and truth from sophistry. They
essayed to make Science spit in the face of its
twin-sister Religion, though truth told so boldly
'L _ _ _ _ ~ ________ L'L _ __ 1~_~ __ _ 1."1"1 __1' _ _ 'L ___ __ 1
~

Agriculture, as the first-born of the sciences,

I first review. Narrating its imperfections
before Ceres supplied sufficient stores for every
stomach, I lamented the ignorance of the times

.such nnmense territories of the world, culti-

vatable, were uncultivated. By the elevation
.of Adam's profession to the modern standard,
I showed how· billions of plants sprang up
 'I'"

take a library of volumes to detail, I dwelt on

those advances in science by which the dates
of rocks can be as accurately ascertained as
those of history, and finished by alluding to
__ 1 __ 1 _______ .1 _..1._11 ______ 1 ____ _

--- - -------- ----- -- - -----, --'1---' ---

gas-and could be as easily reduced into its
elements as a word into its letters; and that
chemical compounds were built, like houses,
upon plans, and that by a knowledge of chemical

the laws of combinations and permutations, 1

showed how modern notation-the alphabet of
the science--was a key which opened the door
of its difficulties, and reduced intricacy itself
 slew its thousands, preventible diseases their
millions. Youth and health themselves had no
panoplies against the shafts of death. Gouts
attacked the rich, rheums the poor, fevers both,
_1.!1_ _ __ 4.!1__ ___ -=4.1. 4.1. _= __ !4.-_!11 ______1.. _l'L_

and Vibriones, the messengers of death or

disease, travelled in every breeze. By reason
of this dire mortality, husbands and wives,
parents and children, were untimely wrenched

step-mothers, step-tathers, and step-sons, and

other alloyed alliances, were formed, often only
to snap former ties.
The treatment of cases rivalled the diseases

r
 ANCIENT RCTENCK 11!l

quarnea, nunea, rUITowea, ana Dorea.oy tne

sappers and miners of the human frame. rrhe
very thought is almost an emetic.
"But now that the air is purified, and the
noilv no lonO'p.l' hp.lp.HO'l1p.l'p.iI hv t'hP. invi~ihlp.

-
tions which flourished when life was unstable
and disease ubiquitous - have all expired,
because people now live long, and only die of
authanasia."

11111:1.11 gll.l. V, I:I.llllll.ll, CJ.ClJlJJ.J.lJJ.IJ)" llCalJ, lJllClllllJaJ.

affinity, and friction, are but transformations

of each other, and that all are 'but the various
r~leS of the versatile actor-force proper. This
knowledLre was the key-note of a scientific
 Touching the short-sightedness of science in
its infancy, I say,-" Ignorance cast nicknames
at the most useful things. The epithets dregs,
dross, scum, and scourings, were applied tQ w.hat

were treasonable to the King of Kings, who-

made all things perfect. To the thrifty eye of
Nature, in its scorn for expletives, even putre-
factions, excrements, and garbage are valuable,

Clowes 01 Ignorance, astronomy was mvestea

in the superstitious mantles of astrology. The
very men who ought to have been liberators
of truth were champions of falsities. GaliIeo,
for rR.1Rlno- t.1u~ llt.nnilnril of t.hRt. lOtn hliTYlP t ....nt.h
 11 i'::

who stiffed knowledge. Thou in the prison

wert free, and had the rays of a grand truth
beaming upon thee that would irradiate thy
name for ever, while thy detractors, amid their
_ _ ................ n ...... ;J' __ --.. __ .......... "._". .... h_ nln,.,.._n _.f ___ ';,,;:1';1"10_

.,
tions radiating ami~ the boundless realms of
immensity, and luxuriating in discoveries too
sublime to be understood by the lackeys of
bigotry..

TIght :were ott tho canons ana. DUllS or tno

priests as the cannons and balls of the profes-
sional murderers. But why waste words upon
those who, while they credited absurditio::;,
...,..,.,,1£1 haul"> £It:>n;t:>rl aY;nnHI l'lnrl -who_ in thAll' .
1 H~

ing ground :-
" What flows from our researches into astro-
nomy, up to this the latest breath of time, but
the overwhelming proof of the boundlessness
~~ n~nnn n~,t .j.l..n :~.I.'nll:l..:1:.j.y? n.l.' .j.l..nnn _n_n

briinful of fire? Unerring mechanism rules the

gyrations of these stars. Millions upon mil-
lions in number, each has its incomprehensibly
long orbit, and not one finishes its circuit a

.. 'l'numphant mqrnry, torwara. With your

scientific batteries, armed with all the equip-
ments of ingenuity, and manned by the full
muster of the world's intellect-launch your
.,n"'+~oC! ~"fn fho ... o"";n"" nt iJnnht aniJ iJa ...lrnOQQ
 11,.,.

obscurity of our worldule a rebuke upon man\'

arrogance? It is a mere drop in the boundless
oceans of the universe. As our moon circles
round the world, and the world around the sun,
.l.1. _ _ •• _ ! _____1. ____________ -,-_11:-,- ______ 1..: __

- ---- - - ------- - - -;.1 -- - --- - ----- --- - ----0-

ment of sunules round suns, and suns round

archsuns; and skies round macrocosms mightier
still, seems to be a feature in the architecture
of infinity. Secondaries roll round primaries-

the nncleus of mtimty. ThlS IS the slwkmah 01

the universe, a shekinah before whose immea-
surable immensity arithmetic stands aghast,
and whose grandeur blinds the frail eyesight.
rt.+ l..".....-n"" IU'"nnn'Y\.+;ATl ~":rl"f"h"'I"\Tlorl 1,n,.'i\ (loll
l>1IlIom! of detaIls pecullar to each of those mil-
lions of billions of worlds. Compared to thee,
the stars of our firmament are but a few molecules
in heaven's anatomy. They are mayhap mere
"..,.o,.lr .. 'UT'h;,.'h ha~£> ",.; .... +;l1o+orl hon...... +'hn ~n... ~n,...

be aught else. Human computation cannot

conceive of the number of thy citizens-who
are angels, nor thy cities-which are J eru-
salems ! Clothed with a million superhuman
 11 Q

CHAPTER XI.
ANCIENT LITERATURE.

J. o
the fields of science, my pen arrives at litera-
ture, in whose honour it paints the following
-florid picture.
"Thou art, the casket of the jewellery of

.(}t poetry, the lomc SOlHJ.lt18S ot phllOSOPllY,

and the Doric elegance of historiography.
Whether we view thy holy of holi~s, the classics,
with their massive symmetries and gorgeous
hoa"f,;oct n'l' t'h ...r OTlt;.,.o O'l'ot>t;nTlQ frnTTl t1-""
120 TR~ TW~1\TTV_1\TT1\TTll l'l<'N'I'TTRV

ana spIres ot SUDllIDlty to the outhouses 01

promiscuous dissertation-from the chisseled
excellences of talent to the amorphous verbosity
of newsmongery, what an amazing miscellany
of lYlQ"I'tT",l .. t1o ..t tholl t>olYln"l""'" ,

-
When ignorance was man's loadstone, and hell
society's magnet, and when man's barbarism
was irrigated by the blood-stained stream of
human events, thou wert the instrument to

UUJ.Tt;ll. OLJ.-UULUJ.-t;i:i UJ. IIllt; UJ.-C:Ull, UUJ.lll'J.-_uuug

the true wealth of this world, were, even in

barbaric times, ungrudgingly dispensed over
the commonwealth of mankind. A few pence--
could nurchase the whole Droduce of Shak-
 10T

the architects were cheaper than toys. Even

when false prophets mustered their thousands,
idols their tens of thousands, and Christ only
his tens, who in Christendom had not his Bible?
-,.T ____ .l~.l ________________ __. _. ______ ,_, ___ "L ____
~ ~_~ __

- - ---- --, - r---- - --- .. --- - -- ------- ..

stream of the" Belles-Lettres" in the nineteenth
century.
"Flimsy profuseness was its weakness. It
was the counterpart of our age when produc-

their mental yarns, and according to the sensa-

tional text~e of their fabrics. Cant and rant
best suited the perverted palates of this period.
Consistent with the age's inconsistencies, heroic
lc)c)

quotation in the mart Of letters, while crowd-

ing myriads eagerly invested in the frivolities
of fiction or the frolics of farce. Talent was
prostituted to Mammon. Amid the multiplicity
~~ ~ .....1,,,_~ ~~rl ~ .....1.~_1_1.," ...1.. ____ ~~ ~ ____ rol~. ~

o ~

as regards the next. Brains were mulcted so

fearfully to produce the greatest amount of
literary ware, that their force was dissipated in
the deserts of quantity, instead of being trea-

Who aspIrea to do more were lIKe the ttog, wno,

for want of substance, substituted wind. What
folly for a man to writ~ a hundred books, when
·all the rich thoughts his brain ever hatched
I'nnltl hn {'nTYlnrAQQotl ;ntn !lQ. "YHlnU" n!H)"A!!..
 .. 00

in the campaign of life was actually curtailed,

by infancy, dotage, debility, and disease, to a
few years, scientific books overloaded libraries,
and defied more time for their mastery than
'1.._

- - - - - - - - , - - - ----- - - - - - - - - 0 '

In my remarks on literature's artillery-

history, with its ponderous volleys of human
action-I say :-" History is the cemetery of
'the past, Its archives are the mausolea of

records, save the sad story of a race which, till

within the last few centuries, has as determinedly
broken all the commandments as Moses broke
the, tables on which they were written?' For
n.o.n+,,"";o.o ftTP'nn r..+ -4-1,,,, ('il.--:n .... : ..... _ ,..."" .... .,.1-...", TT,. _ _l;J
annihilated Christianity. The Bible was the
ark, and Christians the Noahs, that escaped the
flood of barbarism, and Britain and Germany
were the Gospel Ararats. It was a se'cond
"1)_..3 C! _______ :_ 1.:_.L ___ __'L __ .L'L _ _ _ _1.1

.. ---0------:----

against the blood of infidels in the unjust

balance of war. No. Irreligious religions
melted not before the thunderstorms of battle, .
but before the still small voice of Christian

ot mtamy. He gave lIterature a tongue and a

memory. The world, by his instrumentality,
instead of a lisping prattle, began to speak with
fluency and volubility. He invented a conserve
in t.1H~ I'IhnnA {)fnrint. whi~h nrAl'lm·YAl'lt.hAt."'A~Hnl"'A
 19.[,

them to nde WIt!1 satety amld the storms ot

circumstance in the tide of time."
In viewing the vista of literature, I am
pained at the cruel treatment which genius ro-

solace to millions of readers during every

successive age. But while nearly all the intel-
lectual Anaks among the ancients performed
their feats on the soil of indigence, there were

reareu lur C:L lew cUl'l'e.l"Is HlUlSt: lllllllUl"l,Ul ewnce:s

. of the mind which even ruthless time venerates,
while poetettes and scribbler-kins in the nine-
teenth century received vast sums for works
which crumbled ouicker than their bones. Even
men to SWIm In nehes WIthout the exercISe ot
the expJetiV'e geJlero~ity of heaping upon them
honours and honoraria, sinecures and sub-
sidies.

bascvuJgarisms, shifted the moorings oflanguage,

and thus brought shoals in the way of literary
V'0yagers. As to the conversation of those times,
it was fined 'with expletiV'es, now contraband.

1. nc aaopnon 01 pnonenc spernng, ana tnc

abolition of the four thousand and one la~ues

of the past in favour of the universal tongue, I
wannly applaud:-" How deplorable," said. I,
"WHS the HtHt~ of thp. lHTID'lJaY'e (,ll1TeTI~V of
 A l\Tm~NT T .T'f'li'.R A 'f'TTRl<' 19.7

value."
I next narrate at length the achievements of
Art. _ Among these I particularly laud the
consumma\ion of the underground railway
tnT..tt)TYl . _ " {)n ()"t,...}w... 1 9. ').1.0') tlu, rn-oot

most stupendous engineering operation in his-·

tory, its originators knew their labours would
not be for themselves but for their chil(hen's:
children. Heroically they resolved to tread a

"taKlIlg saw us prUC"(;lCUl CUlllmencemelH. .r...very

country was drafted for workers and thinkers y
80 that in a few months an array of thirty
millions had been organized. . Millions quarried
a.nll mined. and million!'! con!'!truded the rermi-
 •• In ~D;:S-l other Imes were commenced,
diverging from Siberia, in order that this nation
might also be habited with an artificial surface.
Only ten kilometres of tunnelling was performed
;n fl. .. Tnnnfh of fl... nllf" .. f 1-",f 1l1f;Tnof..hT fh ..

myriads of the useless professions of the past.

" The world soon reaped the fruits of these·
labours. Siberia and Sahara became Edens,
watered by artificial l'ivers longer than the

many, allU \JlllIlU wm"e l"eUeVeu uy mllllOIlIJ

being sent thither to found cities, and introduce
agriculture and commerce.
" These were the boons upon which man cal-
culated. and wherein his exnectations wern OVHr-
 ANCIENT LITERATURE. 129

the past.. By reason of the increased area of

cultivation, a higher ratio of oxygen and ozone
was instilled into the air, which had the blessed
effect of"decreasing- the world's death-rate. and

so that no time was lost in introducing the full

complement of trains, and in developing the
mighty traffic. . Meanwhile the framing of the
'other reticulations of the world's subcutaneous
, ,

~-~- --~ -.~ .. --0---- ~----~--. ~- ---- _A.

went the work until 2649, when not only had
the original plans been completed, but numerous
codicil proj ects.
"But even then there was no halt in the march
130 THF. TWF.NTV-NTNTH r.F.NTTTRV_

.. 'l:ne ralls, at nr~t maae !rom, tne cannon used

at the battle of Armageddon, were afterwards
framed of agate, then of artificial malleable
rubies and diamonds. The carriages, at first
Tns:J(lp of' -m'Oo(l. 'WPl'P ntt.Pl''Ws:Jl'(ll'! Tnn(lp of Ql11_

stories."
I close the book thus:-
" All hail, oh Science! Thou art the unpub-
lished appendix to our Bible. Thy teachings

.lInrlm:n~ l'HtJllUlUtau,\, i l l UH ULUJll, UllU y~lI Mweeli

simplicity in the infinite. By thy genius every
noble principle has been enfranchised, and the
vile brood of ignorance driven backwards to
its native auarters in hell. Thou art the chain
 "1\1....T.....1\1T T .TTV» " TTl».... . 1 !H

occaSIon to be thanktul tor the httle manual

labour modem authorship entails. In the past
it took the swiftest penman a whole day to write
what could be read in an hour. Short-hand,
.... " ..... 11 .... ;..,.~,."gl urg" +hon " .... 1..,. "iTn"urn ;n ;t ...

.cm:ves, as to place modern penmanship far

beyond the area of comparison with the
-cramped, disjointed, mal-formed pen-craft of
the past.

wurK.. n llt1.ll i:t II.nl.ll.llpll ~ .L 1111tl Wi:ttl W lltlJ1 111

took a compositor a whole hour to put up a

few lines of type, not mMres, as now.
1:12 THF. TWF.NTV-NTNTH r!F.NTTTHV.

CHAPTER XII.
THE WORLD'S RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY-GEOGRA-·.
PHICAL REFORMATION.

- -
by the most heavenly of earthly associations.
Superb though the modern temple be with
elaborations of design, which symmetry itself
might envy, and with a concentration of archi-

lUter tne aeVOtlOnal exerCISes, valV1n LUtner

-the earth's moderator-gave his address.
He drew with almost mathematical fidelity a
p8J.·allel between the Church's past contentions
in t.hA l11nD'lAR of RAp.t.A.l'lsmiRTn Rn(J it.1iI nl'ARAnt.
 indigenous to Heaven, was perfect in its
.symmetry and uniformity." Amid a storm of
.declamation, Calvin deprecated creeds and
formulre, those dragotls teeth which developed

It:l.UUtUlII Ul Ullun::u y. VltlUl::Ul q UUl::J;\,J', .l11lUp~lllt:li3

·over these ruptures, arose daily, exploded

·old and created new doctrines. As the
Israelites left the true God and worshipped
idols. so errin!! divines raised creeds with their

.consciences to be stretched on those religious

beds of Procrustes. Building, as men did,
.doctrinal Babels, no wonder Heaven stopped
their work by sundering them into sects.
.. -- .. . . . ~
-on.

nalTowed, its peace broken over polemic·

cataracts, and its zeal frittered amid the rocks
of sectarianism, the marshes of religious in-·
difference, and the icy heights of bigotry.
" rn'l • 'I 'I..'

new accessions, becoming daily more placid,

until it lost itself in the great .ocean of Catho-
licity. In these historical phenomena, specially
wondrous were the workings of Providence, in

Despite thy idolatries, shams, and deceits, how

much was there in thee to love, and how much
more to pity! How often, desp~sing thy ex-
ternal sores, did thy enemies forget thy internal
~~~~11~_~:__ A __ ...1 L1-_.. _1- 1-_1 ___ ...1 D __ L __ L __ L
 did you think that, at the very time when you
hated each other most, God on high looked
down upon you as his dear though erring
children, and guided and guarded you both
~!,,"1. ~ .t'~ ..1. __,_ 1 ___ _

L - - - - -~ - - - -- - - -

The winter of the Church merged into spring,

and we are now glorying in the harvest. The
Church is liberated from State fetters. The
days of isms and schisms are ended! Rivalry

one taOernacle suttices tor a CIty. Uur cathe-

drals, with their amazing aggregations of con-
centric galleries, aisles, and naves, accommo-
date half a million of sitters, while the acoustical
+.11 'hO<l <In 1'0 'l'T"tT +h" 'UT,,....rl nf nnrl ; 1'1 fn o...,.o,.... r h n11 ""
pass over with reverential silence. My pen is
unworthy to tread upon such holy ground.
The Senate at this :time was engaged with
the great scheme of Shakspeare Socrates, for
+~_ I'II."":+ __ ~:__ "" . . . . ,1 'rV't.r..r1':.l:~.n+': __ _ .c '..1.,._ .c_____

in length, and therefore one of the longest

parliamentary orations of the age, was a
beautiful specimen of succinct exposition.
Eloquently he ad~ocated that the face of the

suggestea that peaks shoUla oe lett at mtervals,

furnished with observatories, museums, store-
houses, workshops, galleries, caves, circular
vertical and radial rail.ways, and equipped on
+1,,,; ... +nn" TIT;+'h TYlo+on-rnlnmn", 1 ",nil ",,,t.·nnnTn;n,,,1
the world seemed for the nonce in a condition
of agricultural and architectural dishabille.
Great masses of brown earth stood where Flora
had once displayed her richest vestures, or

111..10 YI:i'J.J J.J.\'t:i.l.O Lla\.L J.J.au. lJll'O~ \..JVlLLOvO \.JJ.J.alltst:iu.,

and their watersheds altered, and their erosive

power utilized in abrading rocks in the uplands,
spreading alluvium in the lowlands, and form-
inu: deltas in the sea.

population. A million miles of railway,

two million miles of pneumatic tubes, forty
million miles of acoustical tubing, and eighty
million miles' of electric WIres had been
,., J ' ,.." .. , .
100

upon manne crops.

Hurried by the momentum of millions of
new inventions, the work proceeded. Asia,
the land of Nature's geographic masterpieces,
, "" ta •

morning of history, had been the retainers of

winter, now threw off their old allegiance, and
paid tribute to the genius of cultivation. By
displosions, by fluvial, chemical, electrical, and

vessels, and by studs of whales, the mountains

were carried piecemeal southwards, in order
to broaden the Australo-Asiatic isthmus, and
to enlarge Polynesia, that thereby trans-equa-
",-_-!_11 __ .1 ___ ~ _1..",- 1.. _ _ _ .1_ "'- ___ ___ ______ ",-_-!_1
~ ~
 _____ ..... ___ ,~ ____ ..... _ ..... __ ~ ......... ____ ... __ .. nf)..

destroyed. The edifices which it was resolved

to preserve were dismantled and then removed
entire by means of specially contrived leviathan
balloons.
., . .. ...

~.l"~"~V~~~~ ~~ ~~v_~_~~ .. ~_ ~~ .~~_ ~~~_~~~ ~~V~_.

Whole forests and gardens were likewise

transposed to other countries, until their native
soils were levelled. . These undertakings were
so unique and stupendous, that they justly

humanity, three-fourths of the world's beasts.

of burden, and one-third of its machinery.
 CHAPTER XIII ..

THE EARTH'S PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT AND

If:iOlJQUJ...UU.l.Ou. lII10 \.iVOll.1V.l:'VJ...1.lJa.1.1. .1:'.1..1.1..1.1.1.1.1..10 J..llOIl.1.I.IU.-

tion. Man had long seen, with sorrow, how

far the present publishing arrangements fell
short of the ideal, the minimum of wor~ers
nerforming- the maximum of work. The demand

moment: Hence, we boldly introduced a plan

by which the printing of the world could be
performed by one-sixteenth of the 'present
number of men. In the twentieth century the
J _1 .11 _ _ L .!.L ____._. ____ ...l .L ___ ___ ·'1·_ .1'
cordmgly, the twenty-ntth century saw a most
useful reformation in the consolidation of
printing presses, to the extent or' limiting
one newspaper and publishing office for, each ,
'h"VQO'nn nf nnlJ! thnlHl.Qnil nf'rr>;l",.. 011,. n,.o"",nt

newspaper might sufficf) for the whole human

race.
Pana~a we fixed as the site of the'
world's Press Offi<18. Here we built a Babel

were line paper laClJUnelS, cnellllCal worKS lOr·

the production of ink, with reservoirs for its
storage, telegraph~rooms, and the various pub-
lishing departments. In ,the precincts were
the houses for the nrintin.Q' of all snecies of
1 d.9. TRP. TWll'.lIl'TV."N'TNTR f'P.NTTTRV

was timShe~, and stock.ed WIth the necessary

scientific furniture. Simultaneously arrange·
ments were perfected by which the pneumatic
tubes were rendered equal to this new task.
w 1+0... Ronno+ nnUT +nnlr +1-.0 .,11no,.,n.
Q

first impression was received by man with

avidity. While the eastern hemisphere was
asleep in the bed of night, and while the
rising sun was just about to gild the steeples

·1llllJUW, anu uespa1:cneu onwarus 1:0.d1:R8. anu

.Australia, in order that their inhabitants might
enjoy their· news at breakfast.
According as the sun travelled westwards,
and called unon RllcceRRlve mlllionR to lpAve
 THE EARTH'S PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT. 143

llt:WlS. LUI IIUt: Wllllt: lillt: pUpt:l" WUlS taIUllg-1llg-

its editions. Ten relays of workers were ever

substituting new for old intelligence. This
superb system even from its cradle proved 3.
wonderful success. A hitch never occurred

The world soon reaped inestimable blessings

from this new polity. The latents, erst diluted
over thousands of periodicals, were now con-
centrated, and the leakage of energy caused by
, •• , •• , 1'1 , ..

to revolve in a firmament of publicity. My

impressions were confirmed, for in a few months
Bolingbroke Swift retired from the Presidency
of Siberia, and I was appointed his successor.
144 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER XIV.
MOUNTAIN TORPEDO EXPERIMENTS.

teenth century. The genius of agriculture

had drained its mosses, plastered the whole
country with rich alluvium, and transformed
.
Siberian barrenness into Egyptian luxuriance.
. , , ,., ." .,.

My office raised me to such a platform of

usefulness, as rendered my time not my own,
but the world's, and a moment's loss of time
on my part a loss to mankind. Under the
 MOUNTAIN TORPEDO EXPERIMEN'l'S. 145

Socrates. Had this been an age when tho

charms of women were encrusted. with vanities,
I might have moralized over my excellent
choice. I might have deplored how marriage

woman into a pattern of learning, fascination,

virtue,. and, last and least, beauty. The stream
of love is now cleansed of all snares and
obstacles. The converse of Shakspeare's time,
".L'L _________ P .L-__ 1 _ _ _ _ 1 _____ .l _____ _

Mighty were the advantages I inherited from

my predecessors on facing my work. Tho
zoological forces alone which he had mustered
comprised an army of antelopes 100,000 strong,
146 THE TWEXTY-XI~TH CEXTlffiV.

emCleIlli Slall 01 eucn, nowever,

naliurallSlS.

was the high discipline by which this and all

other departments of the mountain army were
animated, that my leadership entailed _upon me
littlp. t.ml1 hlp._

- -
millions worked under Semiramis at the build-
ing of Babylon, but I mustered twice that
number to burst the mountain chains of Siberia.
The work I superintended was reckoned as

C;1,\;;\,;V.nu.Hg ~v ~Hv 'pU',HO, W U HU.U. LV ~t;/ld.- i:O

vast artificial peak. In other countries, where

they had similar commissions, eagles, hawks,
condors, balloons, and Cyclopean catapults
were emnloved to raise these Ossa on Pelions ;
 MOUNTAIN TORPEDO EXPERIMENTS. 147

-LV 1'.L'-.J,., vu....

preliminary experiments, the members of the

world's scientific and political congress were
blown into Siberia by means of the pneumatic
tubes. Other myriads arrived with the same

Amid great anxiety the programme was com-

menced-anxiety which melted into joy as
our experiments, one after another, were
triumphantly consummated. Ere the sun had
p ______ l ____ _____ l_L~L __ ..1 _ ____ 1_____ ..1 ___ ...1 _1..!1'Y' ____ I

The morning's triumphs being trumpeted

throughout the world, every hour brought
on millions by rail, by balloon, by wing,
and by tube, to this present battle-field of
148 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

to this arrangement, Shakspeare Socrates, as

the leader of the mountain iconoclasts, supplied
the necessary plant so quickly, that in a week's
time the rocky torpedoes were in universal

within this century. This supervened in con-

nexion with an attempt at blasting which
knew of no counterpart either in fact or fiction.
Mount Matterhorn arose like a giant· among
L1 __ ___ _____ L_!_~ ____ - ___ ~ ____1'~ _~__ ..! __ .1..1_ _ .t..l ___'!&_

-- -- ---------- r--- --- ---J ---~---- -- r-- -

cautions were taken to ensure success. The
question having been raised, that, seeing even a
snail cannot crawl without altering the earth's
centre of gravity, was it not possible' the
mighty macrocosms to crash each other to
ruins, -a commission of astronomers was
appointed to consult the oracle of truth, so
that man might be guided aright. Beautiful
"
., ,
 CHAPTER XV.
THE GREAT ACCIDENT OF THE AGE.

an-Hour DOIore line explOSIOn line sIgnal was

given for the spectators to vacate the regions
of danger, and eagerly this time was occupied
in perfecting precautions. The inhabitants
"Wit.hin 11. l"fI,oiml of -(iVA lmnomo milAR RhiAloAO

sufficient to generate fifty cubic miles of

carbonic acid, carbonic oxide, and riitrous
gases, measures were adopted to supply the
necessary ram and other re-agents to preCl-
- -
 ~~ ......................... . -,...-_ ....._............. - _........... . ..... - ., ~.,

in balloons stationed high in mid-air, so as to

allow the spectacle to be seen with the greater
distinctness;
We now awaited the death-throe. of the
1\ ... - ___ J ,. _ ......

------ ----·-----0 --0------ -- ------- --- .. -----

geography had enthralled us in a maze of
hazards, our souls were saturated with thrilling
excitement.
We felt every beat of our hearts drew us

or earth had ever hearu. lJompared to the

sound, thunder was a mere whisper. Compared
to the concussion, the earthquake of Lisbon
was but a gentle tremor of the earth's skin.
Tlu:> ho"vOTl QOOTTlo.1 a" ;f ;+ h .. .1 ...ohollo.1
1 ;;:0

lashed into a million contending whirlwinds

and hurricanes. Storms buffeted storms,
cloud crashed against cloud, inflaming the
elements jnto paroxysms of passion. The
~~~..:I~~ N~ h~ l1~~",n ~~~_1,~1~ .Q~~+~~~ +~~_

,.
equipments, failed to fly m the sulphury aIr
with freedom. I who, along with Brindley
Telford and Stephenson· Watt, viewed the
mighty eruption from the shores of the atmo-

tam, rena.mg at Its touna.atlOns, WIth names

bursting out miles in length, belching worlds
of smoke and blinding clouds of stones and
dust, while the dark storm-pent heavens above
lAnt. <I. g(>n...,.linO' .f;Pl'(>pn-':.gg fn +.1....,. fl<lg'h <In.1
 1 ~O

throb. Anxiously scanning the bright flames

amid the darkness, and the darkness amid tho
flames, I saw Mount Matterhorn, fearful in its
immensity, bursting up from the seas of fire
___ ~ ________ l" ____ 1 ______1 1 ___ ~__ -1 ____ 11" ____ .!.1

----- --- ------, ---r---- --- ------.

large avalanche of stone, tons in weight,
whiffed past us, whose draught swerved our
air-ship out of its course. Numerous small
rocks were likewise dashed against us, which,

of bewilderment, and did not regain our senses

until we heard the yell which arose fr<?m
. millions, when it was found that the huge
mountain was taking a wrong direction. Never
.l._-! __ L1. _ _ !11 ___ ! ____ . __ Ll,_ l.. ___ L _~ ~_"
catastrophe ourselves, we rushed to the rescue,
viewing the while the flying mountain as it
made its horrid curve in mid-air, and dashed
downwards upon the city of Rosetown. De-

~1..I6 III..U:I OLJ~V'p.I.\.I~ .L.LLlrr..\..I .I,\..IV\.A.O, UI.LLU, IJLJ.~ o~'{Jau

stately mansions like egg-shells. With our eyes

bedewed with tears, and our hearts palpitating
with tenor, we soon arrived at what we dreaded
might be the sepulchre of the city. Here almost

fortunately early anived, and by his amazing

genius and presence of mind reduced the chaos
into order. The twenty thousand of the city's
inhabitants who lived in that portion of the
_~..L_ _ __ 1_ ~ _ 1_ 1 __ .1 __ < ____ ~ 1 ____ • _ , _'1
 - .
ordered the pluviofiers to be worked, the skies
to be emptied of their rains, and the sun
to be unveiled. Concentrating his energies'
then on the speediest means of disburdening

U upw U11 L11e 1:!U11el11tJ uy W 111(,;11 Llle .lUllll111i:UelS

would not be fraught with danger to the

entombed victims. We had ascertained there
were 80,000 immured, and whether they
were alive was the ouestion before which our·

however, that if energy could save even a

single life it should be forthcoming, we had
machines forwarded, and commenced at once
to pierce underground passages .through the
mersed in dismay. Factories were closed,
navigation stopped its engines, and pitched
out its anchors. Railways, the world's blood-
vessels, had their flow repressed, because the

But the prayer of mankind was heard, and

this mightier incubus than buried the city of
Pompeii was as remarkable for its harmlessness
as its fearfulness. So it was that the inhabi-

with rock-proof panoplies. Happily, moreover,

the gentle eminences in the town, like great
buffers, saved the city from the mighty damage
which would otherwise have been inevitable.
TT ____________ ~~ _____ . .L~_~_L~ ___________ ..l_.l _______ _
of Mount :l.'osa, nearly one-iourth of the VlCtims
had been delivered. Night theugh it was,
Aristotle Newton's genius cleared all difficul-
ties. . Having renewed and increased former

"'
fortified themselves with the proper shields
and behind the proper barricades while New-
ton applied the fuse. Upon this the night was
disturbed by the appearance of a hell upon

saw or Knew. .ror a lew mInUteS tnere was

horrible suspense, for we dared not issue from
our retreats, in consequence of the impending
clouds of dust, debris, and stones. Meanwhile
",nnwPol'!'! ~P.l'P. iTl(lll~p'(1 to ~lp.RT' tnp. no-iRoned
158 THE TWENTY-NINTH CEXTURY.

lUlU UUUll UIUWll JrUll1 HI:! UUllUrJJli:U PUlSILIUll WILll

perfect success. The measures were straight-

way expedited to relieve the buried citizens.
These were simple, as all that remained to be
done was to remove a little debris and siQ'Ilal

tators, who had hurried a way from the scene

during the explosion, had returned in millions,
,so that as they beheld the safety of their buried
brethren, rejoicings were excited of suchenthu-
'1 '1 • '1 , . , '1

,enigma whether the mountain had hit the

target at which it was fired, though negative evi-
,dence proved its flight had not again imperilled
life. To solve our doubts, Shakspeare Socrates
 THE GREAT ACCIDENT OF THE AGE. 159

wao a. ~t;;a, V.I. ~J.a.1.ll~, l'Y 1.1.1.\..IJ.l .I.J.J.Ulll.l.UU"lit:iU lJ.llt:i ~UU-

jacent land. At length Mount Rosa was reached,

at the base of which was found the mountain
whose wonderful wanderings had been fraught
with so much anxiety. This was the key-note

single life had been lost. The virulence of the

whirlwind and the showers of stones and rocks
had caused only trifling injuries to 20,000 souls.
The citizens entombed had suffered only a few
"- ____ ! _________1 __ L~11 L-_____ ~ __ _ L ______ _

- ----c --. . -c---·- ---. --c---,

while the work of exhumation proceeded, the
mind of man had been so dislocated by anxiety,
that not a single bed in the world found a
sleeping oq,cupant. All the human faIl\ily,
1RO •
'l'Hv' '1'WRlIT'I'V-NTN'I'H I'v'N'I'TffiV_

tho most cruel mllI-stones ot angmsh ttom our

minds to see the resurrection of the victims,
and specially those who were surrounded by
their little ones. . The sight might have thawed

a living ~e~urrection ! Never, during the stages

of any calamity had the hearts of mankind
suffered such paroxysms of horror and fear, and
never did they rebound from the depths of

c(unage, lllueeu, lliaue Uti lllUre prUUI agalll81l

future failure. Our boldness was undaunted,
because it was buttressed by the most thorough
caution. Before the battering-ram of determi-
nation the mountains cowered into insiunifi-
 THE GREAT ACCIDENT OJ.' THE AGE. 161

perpetUal mus (llQ DOW:'

Our next advance along the road of progress
was to blast entire mountains from their apex
to foundations by an improved system. The
nl'Rt p.xnm"imp.nt WSl.R mfl.rlp. llnon M ol1nt.VP.Rllvi11l;L

and so surrounded it with fire-proof material,

that it would not explode till desired. Networks
of smaller torpedoes were also so stationed at dif-
ferent points, that by bursting simultaneously
.- ..... ..... ...

UJ .I.~" .I.llU"'U.I.~"'1..L~", ~1..L0 <0.1.".1.0" UO.l.1..Lo ,P.l.OVJ.VU.",.>:

shielded. All precautions being matured, the

leaders of the movement left next morni~g for
. the observatory at Carthage, where they were
met bv thousands of the leaders of the world' 8
 .tlavmg walten 11al1-an-hour to auow tne
detritus sufficient time to fall, and the poisonous
gases sufficient time to be neutralized, we hied
to the scene of operations by a Mediterranean
hMilO"A t.,.n;n Whon hnlf_Tm,-.r g",." .... ....,.., hon,.iI

halt, as the way was blocked. We accordingly

performed the remainder of the journey on
wing. We had not been ten minutes in the
skies when the sulphury fumes became so

muclllllery ~u cltlur lIlle Uil', UJ l'ruuuUJ.llg LllUU-

der-storms and heavy torrents of rain. Soon'
showers began to fall, lightnings to flash,
thunders to roll, and as the storm increased
the air became clear and Dure. revealiIi.!!' the
country lor mIles arouna, ana entomoea tne
neighbouring cities.
But already Italy had been invaded from all
points. The blocked bridges had been opened,
t.lu:~ nnnnlf1+.inn hflfl 'rAtnrnAfI flnfl fl. flAtfl~hm(mt.

in Naples, was damaged. In a few hours the

removal of the 1umber and the dismantling of
the cities' covers were completed, and the
Neapolitans enabled to return to their homes.

"'ll~ cu.y J.ll·U U~UULUIH 'prUU~I:SI:SIUll, l~U uy

Mazzini Cavour.
Meanwhile, many of us were inspecting the
volcano~ which, after a consultation, we resolved
to transform into a caloric work. The other
and. levels enJomed -by the revIsed geograpm-
cal plans. So quickly did the work progress,
and so mighty was the metamo~phosis, that in
a few days not a vestige was ~eft to mark the
"",n+ 'UT},"'...'" nTln", ..4-"",1 4-1-.", "''1'"",1 V ",,,"m" "

- -
huge body has now been scattered to all points
-of the compass I-thy mighty frame now chokes
up lakes and marshes in foreign lands! Who
could, in ancient times, in surveying thy great

an exalllpu, UI l.lle perrurnUtllCeH 1I11U,1I were

repeated on hundreds of other hills day after
day, to the glory of the present age, and to
the advantage of pOilterity.
As reg-ards the district under mv esnecl.al
 the great undertakings advanced, until moun-
tainous lands became undulating plains, the
erst regions of winter, the ha~ts of luxuri-
.,
·ance, precipitous str~ams navigable rivers, and

mountains.
.
u ....... v .......... v _ _ -.u "... UIlN.ol..&.v......
 CHAPTER XVI.
ATTEMPTED VOYAGE TO THE MOON.

Tine owenan COunCIl TiOOK up Tine queSTiIOn 01

ultra-aerial navigation. A balloon of superlative
skill and power was accordingly constructed,
which embodied two hundred and sixty-one
lnVfmt,lonR. RnAf'llR.llv framAd for our AxnAdit,ion.

by a rocket action it would be enabled to ascend,

even when its specific gravity exceeded the
menstruum in which it floated. Torffect this
o~jec~, ~e~ bottl~d.up in.. its ~teri0l sufficient
great meteorologist, Kepler Gauss; its leading
astronomer, Copernicus Galileo, and a crew of
other five, distinguished for scientific intre-'
pidity. We aspired to the hope that if we were
~~+ ~hl~ +~ ~.. + +h~ n~_..:J~~_ l~_~.j. _h~~h h~ •• _..:J

labyrinths of difficulties blockaded the progress

of our scheme, that they were only surmounted
after the most determined mental assaults by
our army of thinkers.

l:"resla.ency ot ~lberIa, resolvea. to lay honours,

position, and the sweets of society aside for a
time, that I might assist in the attempt to over-
come the Hesperidian difficulties which pre-
VDTlf",£1 ...HITl f,."T\'l n;",-r"inrr h;" ...,.<1"<1' t" th", Qt!'l-rlit
168 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTTTRY.

of mother earth, crossed the atmospheric boun-

dary-line, and launched our bark into that
mighty un-navigated trans-aer,ial ocean, anrld
the immensity' of which the solar system is but
___ =__=_=.l! .... _'"- _1 •• _L .. _ .. I: =_1 ..'"-_

---- ------ .- - --- .. - - - - - -- --- ---.---- - J

of perfection. Thevessel's progress was speedy,

its steering powers unimprovable, and the air
supplied by our apparatus so sweet, that our
respiratory organs did not seem to be aware of

and enraVlshmg sounds, we were now ill

realms where our eyes viewed a desert of dark-
ness, relieved by only a few oases of light, and
where our ears were exiled from the joys of
annn,.:) ~.l.. n+ n." .... ~£'\"t"n .... hn. o~"";ol l~l'nu'
'V\." ..... n..f "'].,.0.
upholstery. We sa.w how the invisible air, by
Nat1,ll'e's magic, 'rendered visible millions of
beauties else unseen and unknown. Wanderers
from these surpassing scenes', we viewed the
, ,,
,..."

sun, though blazing in meridian splendour,

was to us encased in deepest darkness. Night
ruled in the kingdop! of day. The starry
hosts boldly confronted the sun. Noontide

whole world behind us, and the vast ocean of

immensity before us, we felt a glow of divine
joy ove~ the unparalleled achievement, and,
falling upon our knees, we resigned ourselves
!_.L_ .1.'-_ '- __ ..l _ _ ~ T:T~ _ _'-_ '-_1.1 ",,- _ _ _ ......1.. :~
had an apparatus to meet the exigency, which
we now testeo. But, alas! being faulty, our
mouths and tongues moved without sound,
and the machinery of the balloon rattled on in

u"uu au a·J5"U .P"'.1. LI.LaJ..1.J

.L\•. ou.\.I\.I'01;JU-.:Iu.. ~"V~.Ll..I.5

fortis/nnw, however, the sound was only

pianu;slmo. Despite this, it was delightful to
our cars, after suffering such a dearth of sound,
to be administered a little auricular nourish-

Kepler Gauss cried out, "All's right, only a

meteor has struck our vessel." Meantime,
with indescribable sensations we were viewing
the awful sight below and still more awful
rnl ..
that their action carried us upward and on--
ward with sweet imperceptibility. The speed
increased hourly, as our inertia was now
untrammelled by the remora of friction, and

l::I'pllO.L-O. ~ llO 'pa,UU.LaLLla U.1 ovl::aU::;.L), .1,UO.1 OI:JU .111~V

a geographical map. Cities were shrunk into·

spots, rivers into threads, and mountains into-
mole-hills. Long ere this we were interested
oh beholdine: a dusky rim upon the eastern

sea, and land after land. Soon Erebus had.

advanced as far as Spain, and, having quickly
invested it in the apparel of night, marched
across the Atlantic towards the Western Hemi-
,,
the limits on the earth. We had already
divided our crew into watches, of which
Copernicus Galileo headed one and I the
other; but the awful novelty, the fearful bold-
,.." .

shores of the Atlantic. There being no atmo-

sphere to slope the way, by means of the
pleasing compromise of a twilight, from light
to darkness, we were in a single moment pre-

Nor had we a remedy for this inconvenience,

for our electric light proved but a feeble spark,
se~ing it had no atmosphere to refract its rays..
No marvel, then, that the horns of anxiety
____ .1 ____ ________ r::tl. __ Ll _ _ _ .1 _l. __ Ll_ i!___ _
 ATT"RMPTRn VOV.Af!"R TO TH"R MOON 17R

formed nourIshment to our solIcItude. up to·

this time we had never truly known what a
horrid vacuity and dearth was silence. On the
earth quietness may be found, but never a total
ah .. onf'''' nf f'haf: ovo'" f'nn .. hn,t. .", ...",1 ",tTrlnQn'ho...o

Custom, with its genial balm, rendered the un-

earthly stillness tolerable, and so strengthened
our seeing that thousands of things, erewhile
. invisible, burst upon our vision. The stars

lllllUeIS, line UWIill scene unu our more UWIUl

position must have shattered our scepticism.

Having, by the telegraph of prayer, sent on
to the altar of heaven our homage to God, the
watch. under Oonernicus Galileo. retired to
114 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

"HllUUII tI. lllUlllWH I'l Wi:U-lllllg- Wt: wt:rt: lllUll-

dated by the rays of the sun. The sight of

Nature's face, when the eyelids of darkness were
thus opened, our memories can never forget.
Below us lav the world. shrunk into a dark ball

brac~d the whole world. What an amazmg

eyeful! In one glance we grasped the two
poles. To our vision continents were only
specks, oceans' drops, and the world itself but
... ., .. .., ,.

but a sky with myriads of stars. In one direc-

tion we beheld the Plough, in the other the
Southern Cross. The scene ushered us into the
sacred shrines of humility. S:urely, we thou~ht,
 ATTEMPTED VOYAGE TO THE MOON. 175

W"'I"'" lIill"UWll lULU a paIlIC UI COIlI:l"Lerna"LIOIl 011

feeling our balloon whirl out of its path, and

gyrate in a manner which struck terror to
our souls. Uncertainty fanned our fears. At
lengih we saw a lar.Q"e body above us. on our

to be called a meteor, for we felt certain its

diameter was as much as five kilometres. Before
immersed in a cauldron of apprehension, we
were now exulting in the bowers of joy. Allow-
• l' "

on, when we actually passed through the midst

of a constellation of moonules. On this occasion
we were entangled in their midst ere we saw
our mistake, and it was only after the greatest
relatIOn to eacll other and. to the world., ana
their course and velocity.
Nothing noteworthy happened until the even-
ing of our eighth day in ultra-aerial realms,
-nTh"'.... TIT'" .... nf~n"'r1 nrhaf onnoo"",r1 fn h", ann+'h",'P

which revolved round the earth. We had

ample opportunity for our investigations, as we
were at one time within fifty miles of the
system. Our discovery, pleasing in itself, still

01 rtllStlarClltllS, anu Ylewlllg an nnilltlR:suraDltl

catalogue of known and unknown phenomena.

Meteorology, physics, and chemistry, all profited
by the luxuriance of our investigations. As we
lOllMlevedon. CaxtonArkwriuhtandhiR diRelnles
 ATTRMPT1"~n VOVAfH<~ TO THR l\fOON_ 177

llRnli wscovenes regarumg tne mnerent Kmus

of meteors..
Up to this time we had dreaded that ultra-
aerial navigation would be fraught with danger,
on RN~01mt. of t.hp. mvrll'1Jhl of mp.t.p.nl'l~ ~R.lt.<.:

balloon. Now and again we were hit by such

bodies, but the meteoric-proof envelope of our
vessel rendered such collisions harmless. Day
and night our little world was at work. We

IIUJ.-Ullgll IIll~ Wtl.l1l1 UJ. PJ.9PI:::J.- J.·\:l\;J.·\:ltl.liJ.Ull. " '"

had with us a library of microscopic books, by

. the aid of which we we~e enabled to make
leisure a pleasure. Than books, indeed, what
could have been to us more valuable? Brinring'
tained what were the best products of the earth
during 8,000 years. Classical works are the
shells and pearls of genius. Long after their
makers have died, they lie on the shores of

on the other hand, the moon gained in size

what the earth lost, and lost in brilliancy what .
the earth gained. As time rolled on, we became
acclimatized to our unearthly position, and

At tne ena or rour weeKS we naa ascenaea

50~000 kilometres. It was then that the impos-
iilibility of proceeding further stared us in the
face. Our food supply was nearly exhausted,
nn.~ our lU>!'I1t.h 'Wl'I.lOI lOIp.nlOlihlv imnl'lil"Aii ~nl'_
atmosphenc phenomena, we retreated.
Meantime, as our small bark had been
watched from all the observatories of the
-earth, and as we had kept our brethren at
,H,o;... 4:0......0 ..4:...;01 "hA'I'Y'IO<:! .1" hr ;nf'A'I"I'Y'Iorl "f' "" ...

the' fates of kingdoms centered in their balls

-and b~ets, were never regarded with so much-
.concern as was the progress of our balloon.
'The sympathy of mankind was so focussed

111m Il"'WI:S U1 uur rtlllrtl<£l1 W<£I:S PUUlll:SlltlU, 1,lltl

whole world was plunged into disappointment.

Sanguine hopes were overthrown, and the keen
-excitement raised by our long march through
vacuity suddenly exnloded. Such. however.
1 RO TRlo~ TWF.NTV- NTNTR ~F.NTTTRY_

WhIcn tney UTaaIatea With tne most UTlUeScent

colours, and arranged in symmetry's loveliest
shapes. The firmament was rendered a mighty
picture-gallery, glowing with all the tints of
I

TMQ rpht>Qt> O""J""'Tltl n"J"An"'"J"SI+inTlQ 'W'A"J"A TnSl(JP.

- -
gravitation and the balloon's engines, we would
be enabled to travel hundreds of miles every
minute. Our speed, indeed, was the most
terrific ever recorded in the long programme-

ll1g IJU UVtol.l-W lltolllll UlS 111 .l-Ulll. .l.1. WH.lS U. learIW

sight, and had we trusted to our vision instead

of our reason, our hearts would have been·
panic-struck. Larger and larger became the
huge disc. Nearer and nearer it flew. until
 Such was our confidence, however, in our
inStruments,' that we openly stared at the
.appe~ance of imminent danger, and laughed
to see our eyes so cleverly cheated. At length,
- - - -

,.Lllo VJ.ll] vy,,;a

jl, VJ. J.,avv J.llJ.U;;;',
~J.a.~~ Wt;;
1Ju.~

had performed twenty times the distance in

the thousandth part of the time. We had
now leisure to behold the great ovation in our
honour. Aeronautic fleets crowded the shore

desert of silence, were regaled with· the

heavenly fare of music, and our eyes, so long
banished from the bournes of colour, refraction,
.and reflection, were feasted with all the fasci-
"Inn

their descent, the magnificent etherial nebulous

scenery, and, above all, the sight of the millions
in the air and on the earth, were the addi-
tions of grandeur to beauty. On China we
,. , I
"I "
, ,. ,

.................. -J .... " "'........ - ...... J---~, . ,. . . . _.. - "- . . . . . . . . _- --

sunset. Here the rejoicings were renewed.
We found the superb streets of Constantinople
replete with embellishments, and the waters
glowing with grandeur. The multitudes of

imp1imatur. Accordingly, before the myrmi-

dons of hearers, both within and without the
house, I narrated the outlines of our journey.
Kepler Gauss, Copernicus Galileo, and Har-
~~n"~n r'ln~_:~l.4- 4-1.~~ :~~:~~.,nll~ .,~nnnln..1
 like thunder through the long aisles and
.galleries. Their speeches were far beyond
the mere glittering tinsel to which such an
undue importance was attached in ancient

o I

that it was about to enjoy a glorious amplifica-

tion, and its disciples new fields of inquiry.
Never had science seen such a sight, never
had its sons garnered such a glorious harvest

voyage ellcIted. The number and excellence

of the books written on our discoveries formed
no mean panegyric on our labours.
184 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

.',
".
CHAPTER XVII.
BETWEEN HEAYEN AND EARTH.

research. Improved altimeters, non-aerial baro-

meters, and thousands of trans-atmospheric
apparatus were invented weekly. The moun-
tain tops of success are ever invested by path-

to maKe anotner eXpeQltlOn IntO tne nrmament.

We commenced by facturing a more complete
ultra-mundane locomotive, which comprised
such an amazing concentration of ingenuity
!'Intl <mill. !'In !'IO'O"l'AO"s:I.t.ion of invp.nt.lon!'L !m~h
 It was a mechanical marvel. The same size
as the last, it was a hundred times more power-
ful, and it possessed the additional advantage
of requiring a crew of only half the number.
. . . ... .

..L"""", 6.1.w.LI.\.&. UU,U u"UV.L '-1.1. Y v lAIUU"-'LI..I.t'U ...... UiU "~'-''''.L

made to invade the moon. Our trans-aerial

ship was not only stocked with the most nutri-
tive food, but a new idea was adopted, in sup-
plying each of its mariners with physiological

other arrangements were so consummately in-

genious, that we verily believed we would be
enabled to cross the mundo-lunar gulf. Our
effort was sublime in its boldness. Perhaps
1 Ql!

infinity of time in an infinity of spaceo The

thought could not but make us t~ our eyes
to our Father in heaven, bold in the _assurance
that though our remains might be waifs in the
____ 0 ______ 1'___ L1 _ _______ .1 _ _ 1' _____________ 1.1 _L~l1

.. ---- -- ---- ----- -- ----0----- -- -------- -- --

murdered, merely on account of the silly
squabbles of kings as to what kind of flag
should flutter over a certain piece of ground,
could we grudge to risk our lives for the

speare Socrates, and myself, lett our terrestrial

home amid the benedictions of our fellow-meno
Millions had come from every quarter of the
world to view the great ascension, and the scene
~_.1 ~~ __ -=~~~ ~~_~+~.:1 +l,~~_ ~nn~~hln~~ P"f1hn
in another ark, in which we were to seek another-
Ararat in another world. Henry Bunyan, who-
conducted the services, spoke with an inspira-
tion which have endowed his words into the

"U.\:ill all .lllllJ~tj""J.vtj "J.OH~. .n.~ J.tjHO~H vu.J.

balloon weighed anchor. A procession of ten

hundred thousand aerial mariners escorted us
to the suburbs of the atmosphere, anthems being
nlaved the while with such beautv. as swathed

oGean. For a while our eyes and hearts wan-

dered back to our friends, but our duty soon
urged us to direct our eyes upwards, ang. centre
our resolutions in wmmng the moon. Our
,
"
1nn

breathing machine, the acoustical devices, and

the log-lines, worked with success, while our·
spirits were buoyed up with the most cheerful
-expectations.
., , , , ,.

fishes did ever any company have their appe-

tites slaked with so small a proportion of viands. .
Chameleon-like, we might have almost have
been said to have lived on air.

time we observed four undiscovered moonules.

In the second week, in consequence of being
nearer the moon, and having a greater share
of its gravitation and less of that of the world,
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mounted every dIfficulty, though aU the whIle
deeply alive to the peril of our position and the
wildness of our adventure. Now we had col-
lisions with meteors, anon we were drifted out
fl~ no" ... .on" ..."", h"T a nnn",f",llaf.~nn nf ..-nnnnnlc",

- --
enabled us to breathe where there was' no atmo-
sphere, and, to fast without suffering starvation,
were akin to perfection, our eyes longed to
view the fair face of our mother earth,-our

anu llllluenceM Ul lluUluuny, uur very Menses·

were famished. The appetites of sight, smell,
touch, taste, and hearing, each suffered a dearth.
While our mind's machinery was in full play,.
our nhvsical feelin.Q's seemed exiled from their
190 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

neaven 1:0 us was nOli a canopy, DUli a grea~

rotund vault, of which we were the centre-a
vault marvellously bespangled with star bril-
liants, and a vault whose milky way was a silver
wav. and zodiap.fI.l li.D'ht fI.n fI.nrora. H fI.lf thA

into a moon. We were in regions concurrently

cheered by sun-light, moon-light, world-light,
.and star-light. What appearances could have
been more reverence-inspiring than those we

'UUJ.] uvo J.J.HU1.UJ.~au~", allu, J.ll l'V"""'",,J.VJ.J. VJ. a

firmament containing two moons to which in

size ours was a dwarf and in lambency a rush-
light-a firmament not of 190°, but 380°, in
which a sun. two moons. the milky way. the
 RF.~F.F.N HF.AVF.N ANn F.ARTH Hl1 '

wonaers' realItieS. Above our smaH entIty ot

worlddom was the earth-like moon, below was
~he moon-like earth, and all around the glorious
unclouded stellorama of infinity. What con-
fl;t.;l"\nQ pI"\111fl 1'1"1"\111'1" n11"\1"" int."nQ" ;""lino"Q 1"\1"

our earthly works. Could any circumstances

so estrange us from the sordidness of the world
as the possibility that we might never return to •
it in the body? Never was such a sermon

UllUUlll:I\.aUUI:UY UpUll ~H\:JllJ. I.LU.l.lllt5 \:JV\:J.lJ lI.lHVIJ V.l

their pulse; but we who were removed from its

scenes were enabled to see them by the power-
ful telescope of their absence.
But I am brou!!"ht to the straits to which we
192 THF. TWRNTV-NTNTH CF.NTTrn.V_

aampca., so tllat we were oumanKea., ana.

forced back to the conviction that science was
still unable to cope with the multitudes of exi-
gencies which such a journey as ours entailed.
N ""v""~i},,,,,l,,,,!I.!I. 'UTA h""lrl 011t. fo-r l'Illot.h"".,. 'UTOo'!r

-
its consort on the sixtieth day of our .extra-
terrestrial exile. Each day had seen these two
visually great, but astronomically small, orbs
changing, the moon growing larger and larger,
- --

.I1RVlllg pruceeueu tiU J.al", we agalu lIoeu w

blow up the embers of our determination. Our
hearts being magnetic towards moonland, we .
strove on three days longer, when, to our un-
utterable m'ief. Galileo took seriouslv ill. . The
 1(}Q

towards it more than half-way.· We then re-

laxed our dietetic system, halted our ·~erial
chariot, _and made a few final investigations
before sounding our retreat. -Applying our
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terested in a tenet which science had so long

held, but which the senses had never before
witnessed, I boldly jumped out of the balloon
into the great abyss of vacuity. Unnatural

first delighted with the singular sensatIOn ot

being suspended in a vacuum, I became terrified
when I looked down, and still more when, in
my absence of mind, trying to advance towards
",.....n· oa~n 1 ""I"TrlcH.'u\,1 Ton.....,. n 11 "TY't,y nvO' ........ ;fiTlQ h~n.llrrh+
needless anxiety, and to comfort me ~tephenson
Watt leaped out and bore me company, while
he, at the same time, handed me a rope with
which we were enabled to re·enter our craft.
"A~_ ~ .r~T~ .t. • ...+h~_ ~~~~...;~~~4-~ ~~.:1 ~~~~...4-!~

"
joined to the increased force of gravitation, made
us dart down with a velocity at which speed itself
might have been startled. Every moment our
momentum increased, but as there was no

uswara, ana. the moon another III tull retreat.

Such was our composure, that' we failed to take
the precautions which were so necessary-we
failed to note how quickly the world was becoming
'UTn1"ltl.Elro antl +.ho Tnnnn TYlnnn.l;lro ~ha lronoa?Q
 . RRTWRRN HF.AVF.N ANn l"'.AR.TH~ 19!1

nursmg our SICk Orotner vopermcus tia1lleo.

Our speed, moreover, was so much beyond our
.calculation, that we were startled when daylight
dawned four hours afterwards, and showed us the
. ,pArlh ~.t. ~. fllRtl'lnl"A of on lv !'I fmv ll11nrl ...... rI TY\~l ...,,'

short of a miracle, nothing could enable us to

~scape, and a miracle not being forthcoming, we
-crashed against the atmosphere with such sud-
denness and violence, as kindly bathed us in the

<.:UI::IIUUIl WH.I::I I::IU gTtlH.L, LllH.L ,tlH.Ull UJ. WS, V UICH.Il-

like, had our legs broken. Such was the

.suddenness of the accident, and such the wild
overthrow of our senses, that our ship was
wrecked ere we had time to realize we were
on account of his previous indisposition. Hap-
pily he, as well as the remainder of us, rallied
80 quickly that our misfortunes did not vex us
80 much as the damage to our balloon and our
!~A~'_~~+" ,,~~~ ..l"~n' h~no!~~~ _r_ .. !_....l

... 01

deplored; but it could not daunt the irrepress-

ible energies of man to make renewed sorties
to the moon. Our mission, notwithstanding-
its failure, had reaped a rich harvest of scientific

hantIes at ru.tterent altltuaes ana unaer mverse

conditions, had not only been investigated, but
their phenomena completely unveiled. ' We had
likewise proved the possibility of man living-
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 CHAPTER XVIII.
-cREW MISSING IN THE SKIES-cLEARING MUNDO-

Five ultra-aerial locomotives were made and

manned by different crews, so that by the
close of 2820 fourteen cruises had been made,
five of which exceeded our own III success.

.til WlllCll no lluven WUIS reUCIlt:lU, lI11~y were 1l01l

1 barren excursions. There was not one but saw

new discoveries harvested and the sciences
enriched. They were, moreover, reconnoitering
~xnp.ditiomL hv which wP. wp.re enabled to
10Q

addition to tolerably large meteoric stones.

~rhe courses, speed, extent, numbers, and all
the phenomena of the meteoric tides were duly
scrutinized; comets were boarded and their
4.~~1~ ~_~1_. __ .1. __ .1 ~ __ 4. £.._.1 _ _ i! 4.1. ______ 4._

~ J-J

lunar fury could be thoroughly cleared of its

dangerous obstacles. As a nearer stage to the-
goal of our wishes, a council was appointed,
in which we debated what should or could

worla. along WIth nve others, on .r'eD. H>, ~l5~O,

days summed up into weeks, and weeks to
months, yet of or from them ,we had no intelli-
gence. The world took alarm. Millions of
tolOQI'I'\T\OQ 'n'Hlnno.l 'h'tr toa ...fnl ani! anV;Ol1Q AUOQ
gathered 80 ominously over the citizens of the
world, that the lingering rays of hope flickered
and died. Our distresses were embittered the
more because we were helpless to help. De-
1: ____________ .3 : _____ =1_.1 ______ .1= __ 1-. _____ .3

safety of those whpm we had already mourned

as dead? It happened that Parry Park, making
a moonward journey, and having reached the
distance of150,OOO kilometres, espied a moonule

mhabited.
This wonder was translated into joy before
the almost certain probability that the inhabit-
ants were our lost brethren. Steering towards
+],..0 Do+o11;+o +'J..H:~;~ hnr.no TI7Cl~.a. onlYI') 'rna 1;'70£1
that M.. Llvrngstone and hIS IJrother travellers,
proceeding onwards in their moonward course,
had come so suddenly upon this islet in the
trans-aerial ocean, that they were shipwrecked
nnnn ~+.. ..hn'l'''C1 II onn;hr +1.0"<7' hall "11'ffi(l~ont.

ing and horror-fraught dissolution. They were

threatened with the danger of being drowned
in the trans-atmospheric ocean, for they had
only sufficient air in stock to last for a few

~ 1I1Wllg llUl"UgtlIl auu uxygell IUCKtlU up· III

sundry strata of the meteor~ they subjected

them to decomposition, and supplied themselves
with air; and finding in the rocks alike the car-
bonaceous. nitroQ'enous. and aoueous elements
 supplie'd themselves with the few attainable
-comforts to be found in this barren pinfold.
But words are defective
. pigments with. which
. to paint the fearful Stygian horrors these poor
. .

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sorrow-stricken souls deliverance appeared only

a mirage-mockery.
The voyage of Parry Park having culminated
in . this unlooked-for stroke of Providence,

,of peripherre, prayers of gratitude and thanks-

giving arose from every household. . Imagina-
tion 'alone can compass the intensity' and
immensity of the enthusiasm of the sons of
T .1 P J P 11 • lIT
fleet of trans-aerial ships was constructed,
which, having been manned and placed under
the command of Mercator Humboldt, left for
the earth's nearest moonule. On the· second
, n- , J

meteoric shores. Inspecting the great floating

island, we found it possessed no atmosphere, no
water, and no soil. Only a huge barren rock,
we at once decreed that it should be impelled to

render it more amenable to future treatment.

With this view, we made a pit upon its leeward
side, which we filled with fulminates. Having
then applied a half-hour's fuse, we returned to
 -
repeated the operation, and brought it to the-
shores of our atmosphere. We desisted at this
point, as another explosion would have dashed
the satellite against the earth, and, perchance-

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mencing by bearing loads of one hundred tons

daily to the glqbe, the w:ork. increased until
ten thousand tons was the amount of the daily
freight.

the great trans-atmospheric fleet had been

divided and dispersed among the several
moonules and meteoric constellations, seeing'
that they were each small in _comparison with
.11_ _ 1 J.1 J 1 '1'_ .,. ,_. J __1 y;, _ 1
prevent any collisions. . This was effected
by means of signals on the face of the earth,
consisting of great figures of electric light,
some of which were five hundred kilometres
. ,

observed, and yet large enough to commit

damage to astronomical ships, another fleet,
. consisting of 500 vessels, was commissioned,
with the express view of clearing away these

each balloon had a prescribed area to clear of

satellitic obstructions. A month had not worn
itself away, when no less than 1,000 stones,'
weighing altogether 5,000 tons, had been
l... _____1...L .1 _ _ ___ L! __ L_ L1... _ ____1.1 T_ L1..._
stone was wrecked, had been brought almost to
the air environs. Man now addressed himself
to the work of landing them upon the earth.
The first 'las boarded, and an explosion made
~~ !4-~ 1~~~~_~ N!~~ ~..... !~..... 4-~nn~~ !4- 4-..... _~~ ~!1~~

of its orbit, evacuated their positions, and

retired to spots far enough away to be clear of
danger, and yet sufficiently' near to observe
the flight of the great rock. Interesting were

WSliant tnunaer. .in a lew moments tne mnous·

friction made it fire up arid fume out great bursts.
of smoke. This flagration il!-creased until
it was like a monster comet, with a rock
fnr it.!'! lU~Rrl l1.nrl R D'l'ARt trl1.il of rAAk for it!;~
 few more convulsive lurches and death-throes,
it fell exhausted into the Pacific Ocean. But
·even in its death it was mighty. The meeting
of the world and its moonule was terrific.

...
mighty seething, hissing cauldron. For an hour
the rebellion of the elements was uncontrollable.
The wind, disturbed by the flight of so mighty
a microcosm, blew for a while with an intensity

raclUc. nut tms mtractlOn 01 tne world's

geography was soon remedied. Ten thousand
.ships, like vultures, ate up its great fabric, and
bore its remains as a donation to the new arti-
fi(>;nl f....!lnQ_n(lll!lt.{)l';n 1 l!ln(hL !'Inn nQnt>(>lg lhT In...
 mto the atmosphere, and, atter whlflmg aoove
the heads of mankind for a few days, wrestling
and struggling in the arms of the atmosphere,
and after reeling, roanng, and belching from
. ;40.. hll(J't> hn/hr TYln11ntQ;n vnlllTYlt><:! nf <:!TYlnlrA ;t.

was half buried m the earth, while the

houses for miles around were more or less
burnt or damaged by the violence of the
eoncussion.

lIUt; lU"tsll grt;UlJ. CUntsllt;UUlJIUU were lUW1l:11eU

into the world's aerial ocean, and after the

usual phenomena struck the earth. One
fell in the Bay of Aboukir, one at Blenheim,
one at Glencoe. in Scotland. and one at
 Six more satellites were now drifted simul-
taneously into the, border-land of the atmo-
sphere, so confident was man that he would be
enabled to manage their descent in safety.
n~_.t"~ __ ~l...l~ ""~ ,,"l.~ _~ _ _1__ _ ___ ~_~ ~_.l

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fragments, that their fall upon the world com-

mitted but little damage. The system suited
satisfactorily. The foremost moonule, when
above Algiers, suddenly disploded, with a force

Lana, ana. tne neart 01 AttIca. Tne second

burst, amid equal paroxysms of meteorological
rage, upon Waterloo; the third over Pultowa;
the fourth over Richmond, in Virginia; and the
fifth OVAl" t.hA l"osl.lh: of nonAnhnO'oTl Tho .1;Q_
tnat ru.~coverea. Dy lVlUl'clllson LIvmgstone, were
now drifted across the frontiers of tho earth's
air-ocean. The spectacle thus revealed was
sublimely awful. Day and night the massivo
Innnlcl1'lO' hnrtl-"'Q -ur1-o; ......"'rt <lnrt ,,,1-o; ...1,,,rt <I ... rmn(l

fear would he have beheld them rolling and

roaring above h,is head, and hourly rushing
nearer and nearer! But such was our trust in
God's laws, and such our hold over Nature's

pre8cnutJu 1'1IntJ. n UIl UIllIUrIn 8UCCel:!8 l'1W

whole array was thus managed, until the world

had captured them all, and left the atmosphere
once more clear.
ThA onlv oh!'ltrll~tion whi~h now remained
mumlo-lunar travellers. LJucumstances, how-
ever, rendered this unnecessary, and after-
wards it was dceided it should share the fate
of other circumtCl;rean satellites.

it was evacuated by its inhabitants. The

excitement now engendered was immeasurable.
Slower became the flight of the microcosm,
louder its roar, larger and more fearful its

more certam prey to tne eartn s graVItatIOn.

Down, down it came before the eyes of the
millions, and at. length dashed with frightful
impetus upon Sebastopol. The sound of the
p.ol1i~lon ont-thnnnp,rp,n thlmnp,r lt~Alr._+.h", Il",_
 011

creation.
The world, in its joy over the final con-
.summation of clearing the mundo-lunar fury,
~mployed its transit system in radiating man-

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zones of many chemical elements, the lightest
ofwhich were exterior, and the heaviest interior.
It was a miniature world, with rocks for its
-crust, and platina and gold for its heart.

:sition of the new territory enabled them to

plant continents in the midst of the southern
seas, and peaks upon the bosoms of plains.
I have now run down the stream -of time,
the sUbJcct of cxtra-tcrrestnal naVIgatIon, that
we ~troYc onwards in our great campaign t()
storm thc moon citadel, until I at length hit
upon thc invention by which our labours were
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CHAPTER XIX.

reserved only for one out of several millions.

One of the representatives of the 16th lati-
tude having previously retired, I, along with
forty others, was brought forward as a candi-

or disappointed, I felt that in having had him

.as my rival I had been honoured. The
following day the hour of choice arrived. The
polling-booth was opened, and the telegrams
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Mirabeau Lamartine ... 3,216,118

Half-an-hour afterwards, the latest edition of
the Times contained articles on the election

might be proud, my heart's first love was not

general politics, but trans-aerial travelling, and
that to its promotion I would still devote my
davs and nights, and that I would use mv

Parliament, a position which I have since held.

Mighty have been the events which the zeal of
the senators has crowded into the gulf betwixt the
"then" and the" now." Ptmctuality, the want of
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few hours had ever been spent upon any

measure. Senators went not to Congress to be
entertained with tournaments of ta~k, nor to'
play at pettifogging games of power-hunting,
.... . ,., ..

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'woven in the warp of tho world's annals. To

tell my story is to tell part of that of the world.
My labours lay in building history. Such is
an epitome of the commissions in which I was

and other glowworms of the sea, so as to enable

mariners to sail more readily during darkness;
the projects undertaken under Young Rumford,
by which water was reduced to its elements,
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~~=
9.1 A TlTV TWVVTV _1IIT1IITlT I"'V1IITTTRV

creased passenger traffic; tlle extensIOn ot tlle

tmb-aquatic whale-stables; the introduction of
sub-marine electric lighthouses; and, lastly, the
gigantic meteorological victories by which
", ...f;f:,.;a1 <1111"'1"\"'''''' ",nJ "('(T;lJf: ...o TlrO ..O " ... oa+oJ fn

feat. The sublime resolution with which the

genius of the world embarked upon the task,
and the rapidity with which the million
leviathan power-machines and the rocky tor-

.... DCllUlU ~ Will IllUKC UWC U ::marp l'W"UlSlllng

instrument having teeth. Thou shalt thrash

the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt
scatter the hills as chaff."
For the last twentv-five vears several cuhic
 ____________________ ,~ _ . ___ . ______ 01""

rendered navigable, and the shores of the world

but one. continuous harbour. Every isthmus
had been converted into a strait, and every
strait bridged and undermined. Oceans had
,,

tion with the ocean by artificial rivers. \ Canals,

the capillaries of the world's anatomy, irrigated
its whole area. There was a universal union
among waters by means of artificial 'rivers,

of oceans. Neptune had invaded the land and

Ceres. the sea. Animals could roam. from pole
to pole without touching water; fish could
swim . through Asia, Africa, Europe, and
there had been volcanoes there were now caloric
empona.
During the progress of the great labours
there existed unparalleled devastation. The

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wise features of which not only eclipsed those

of the past, but seemed to bid defiance to im-
provement in the future.
The beauty of nature,. in its reiuvenescence,

Chaos had been disinherited of all his former

earthly possessions. We had rendered the
crust of the globe hut one large piece of
artificial typographical sculpture -one largo·
V_l __
construction, and in magnitude, to render their .
uses the more numerous. Sonie were pyra-
midal, and stood' on the plains as monuments
of massiveness; some, with easy and majestic

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with awe and admiration. But their appear-

ance was subordinate to their uses. All were·
citadels of science and repositories of art. They
were studded from base to apex with scientific

whose wondrous movements regulated the·

rhythm of the aerial 'circulatory system. To
suit the great aerostatic traffic, the atmosphere·
was divided into ten strata, five of which were·
_ 1Vl __ . • 1 _n ___ L ~ __________ _
.oon.

above the aerial ocean, their tops being manned

by astronomical sentinels. There telescopes
were free from optical aberrations, and there
man could study the phenomena of the meteoric
•• , 1 • 1 • .1 J1 .l.1 _

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were fed by electro-magnetic batteries, but the

trees of the world did not see two additional
rings added to their circumference when
'Vheatstone Morse told man that inasmuch as

I will illuminate the whole exterior of the

world by the electricity in its interior." His
wishes were gratified, "and thousands of wires
were affixed at the magnetic north pole, and
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 "U"TI~Tt r\T.'! rnTTT':"l Tn"ATlT T'" '" Tl ... TtT T ... ,trU,..Trn C)C) 1

Millions of wires were soon applied to the

positiv~ and negative poles of the world-
battery, with the result that the force thus
obtained was used for as many purposes as
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age. Only two millionaire armies were left to·
finish sundry geographical reforms, which, as
we shall see, had their labours extended over a·
generation.

gunpOWder III Iron cyhnders, or the trafiic of

sin-inspiring wine from gl3:ss bottles to the
recesses of man's tabernacle, but by heart-
flowing gratitude which disdained the empty
-9.9.9. '1'l'J~ 'T'\VVN'T'V _NTN'1'l'J ("VN'1'TTRV

CHAPTER XX.
ASSEMBLAGE OF THE WHOLE HUMAN FAMILY.

assemble all the sons of men at one huge family

hearth. In introducing my scheme to Par-
liament after these years of incubation, I
had one of the largest audiences that ever

.and torty mIllIons extra-mural hearers. When

I commenced, I dreaded my tongue ~a~ un-
.equal to the task of administering worthy sen-
timents to such a world of ears. Fortunately
T n~!)n<I(l".,.i1 f ... f\C\11",j;;!t) nnr fh""ll"hfj;;! In f.h.,. .....nlf.
 A ClCI1>1l..UT A £'tV AV "'ttAT V ttTTU A l<T V A UTT.v ')')~

cherished scheme into the sanction of the

house. Unlike those ages when "reform
measures were carried at the cost of millions of
.conflicting words, and never passed until" the

hurricanes of debate and thunder-storms of in-

dignation,-my Bill was in an hour and a half
fledged into an Act. In accordance with its
terms, it was decreed there shoU:ld be a reunion

nan so lOng "Irram~ten tne pOlitIcal nrmament, "

intimated that his advanced age bade him seek
retirement below the horizon of active life. It
was, therefore, resolved to render the first great
nlAAtlno- of thA ~lt.l·Z(.m~ of t.hA Al'Irt.h thA morA
the world-tears of gratitude for the -plentiful
harvest of his good works, and tears of sorrow
that the burden of two hundred and ten years
told us his life's goal was nearly reached. To
.c~11~~.. 1-.:~ .c~~4-~.j.~~~ :~ 4-1,~ 4!~1r1~ ~.c~.:_4-,.,,,,~ .. ~~

v CJ ,

Pythagoras Savonarola, and Algernon Sidney,

-men truly worthy to be men's leaders.
Every provision that prevision could suggest
was made to render auspicious the first great

railways ana pneumatic tunes tramea near the

HpOt in connexioll with the world's main lines.
~ During the llluster the whole transit· system
of the world was convulsed. Engines with
f."",,;,' f]n,.,.,.o.t"l'"tT l'!'Il'l'; <l O'Ao. nn AllTn!'l +; n f" haC!
 ASSEMBLAGE OF WHOLE HUMAN FAMTLY_ 22:)

cenue. .at 1 A.M. tne concentratIOn com-

menced; at 8 o'clock the same evening it
had been completed. To ascend as I did
among the mighty aeronautic navies and view
t.1-u~ hOl'np.R of An!=lTn'R RonR l'l'o"W(lp.n !=ll'onnn fol'

our host need sentries or watches. The game

of murder was obsolete. We could fall asleep
in peace, for God was our King and his angels
were our sentinels.

Y U.l .t1.UUlll WUUIU Urlbtl .l.l-Ulll Llltl.l.l- UtlU15 LU

.lUlllll

pay their homage to God. He.re with our

telescopes we took a Nebo-view of the whole
human race. Such an extraordinary eyeful!
Despite all the slaughters, plagues, and diseases,
226 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

ramuy ! vv nat a creatIve rorce tnere IS ill

vitality! H death slays its millions, life creates
its billions. When death commenced its war
against life in this world, there was only· a
hSl.nclFnl in t.hA lnnil of thA livinO'· hnt._ ilA~nitp.

-
dimensions of the human race. Oh, death,
where is thy sting ?Even thy victims shall
yet be thy victors, for they only sleep. Ere
long the congregation of the dead shall be the

ammUl.tlu Uts Uts Wtl UtlUtllU HUts ~UUlUl>ta'y gTtll:I.Lt:J.-

assemblage, because our advanced philosophy

made us view it as only a company of pilgrims, I
and this earth as a large inn; and because we
knew the heavenly iubilee would soon arrive
 ,C'!a'P"l."UT 11'1'L'" nv TlTUnT'L'" "aTn .. 1 '-T ~1 '1l..rTT 'V 'lc)'"

the music of the largest musical machine man

had ever invented, consisting of a perfect forest
of pipes, and comprising three hundred bells,·
to which the b.ell at Moscow would have been

v , v V w
;second. We were lost in the labyrinths of
admiring wonder. The scene, pen or pencil or
tongue can never describe. The most august
historical picture since the crucifixion, it medi-

all manJnnG,-" .tlenOla now gooa a tnmg It IS

for brethren to dwell together in unity." As
the triumphant music rose like a sweet savour
to the heavens, our souls melted with pious
hIgh. lieiore pure musIC evIl IS thrown into
retreat. Angels lie hidden amid the sound
whose breathings enravish our ears. It is
heavenly above all things earthly. In the

as heaven's lenitive to dry his tears and gIve

wings to his delight.
The great family of man were then, with the
view of deciding who should be their Presi-

on tne eartn, tne mynaas 01 myn.aas rose III

a great covey to :the prescribed musical signal,
each flying to his assigned position. Neither
nature, nor history, nor fiction, can supply a
..imilA t.o 11llH~t,rnt,A t,hA fAI'l,rfnl t,hrOllrMTlO" <lTlil
 with the flapping of millions of wings. Such
.was the superlative skill of the manreuvres, that
every family fell into its ordained site. When
this was effected, all were delighted to find the

n::l'UJ.u W.1(,11 .lllLI:l.n::I:S~ LIltJ L~-UUUltJ U~ LIlt:: t;Ul1Ut;I:I,-'

tion. Eyes filled with tears as they beheld it;

hearts swelled with gratitude as they witnessed
that peace and goodwill among men for which
Christ had lived and died. The senatorial

upon the central hustings were ranged our

leaders and senators, special seats being
reserved for the fifty most aged members of
mankind, the place of honour being conferred
'I" . 'I .,
n'll\

one of the most touching spectacles my eyes

ever addressed to my heart. An additional
interest was attached to this patriarch. Before
him were seated his progeny to the eighth
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.----------. ---- ---- -- --0-------- --0------

eclipsed all the pictures which history had ever
sketched. The other formed a shrine of ad-
miration and a focus of delight to the millions
of admiring eyes.

that one hour completed the polling. Amid

stillness, broken only by sobs, the aged Aristotle
Newton then rose and vacated his chair. Hold-
ing in his hand our verdict, he broke the spell of
_____________ 'l.. _________ ! __ J.1.. _.I- _ ... _ _ _ .1- __ 'l.._.1
tial chair, and, amid solemnities which told us .
that heaven as well as earth viewed the great
scene, he implored the divine - blessing upon
his appointment. Heaven having thus been
,

their dwelling-places, ~he movements of the

myriads were conducted with rigid regularity.
One million balloons were engaged in the
pageants. One hundred millions of mankind,

wings; while others were driven in aerial equi-

pages of all species of construction.
But this is a mere dry digest of the data of
the day. To attempt. description of the devo-
.L~~ __ 1 __ l ____ ~L~ __ _ _ .1 ______ __ 1
~ ___________ 1.1
dared describe the indescribable. The very
Times of that day was dumb before its
transcendent glories. I cannot, however, re-
frain from referring to what was the culmina-
.. I' .1 •1 1 • _ t- 11

_A~~"~AAJ A~'~' ~~ "~~l' ~'~A ~~~AA ----~~.-~-AJ

conduct in the past, to rejoice in the peace now

universal, and to pray that b~otherly love might
continue in the future, was, in itself, the zenith
of sublimity.

senators. Such were the arrangements that"there

was not one of the whole human race whose ears
were not the happy recipients of their thought-
fraught and heart-thrilling language. Before
.l.~ ~ .. l,.l:_:.Y. ~.t'.l.~ ~~_~:~~~ .l.~ __ ~_.:J~ .. _ ~.t' ..l._
worthy and a more auspiciously holy day is
not recorded in the annals of the millennium.
Its glories were of that heavenly nature before
which earthly language or hUl!lan tongue is

o~~alLl JU,U.ll.vO V~ "'lIt:; UJ.UlJIH::i.lilVUU. V.L 111a1.lA.LJIU.

The only sad part of the programme had now

to be faced. The touching dismissal services
rendered few eyes to be without a tear, and
few bosoms Without a siQ'h. Finished amid a

earth was swallowing up millions, and hurrying

them on by rail, tramway, and tube. Like a
.sudden stroke of magic, like a mighty dissolving
view, was the departure. In a few minutes scarce
J. , /'t,. .".,
 CHAPTER XXI.

UJ l1C~l-!'IS, Hl~!' 11l~11 WUUIU Cn::WllUt: ISUi:tl- !,U !'11t:

stars, I had all this time been working and

keeping others at work in founding the science
of inter-plimetar navigation. _. My house had
Ion!!' been a workshoD for inventimr trans-aerial

burst the bars of man's cosmical prison. My

colleagues and pupils had now swollen to ten.
thousand brain-workers, whose souls were as
powerfully yoked as mine to the great and, good
 - -
Mars, Venus, and the other members of the solar
family. Hitherto our tactics had been futile,
and we had long studied how they might be-
changed to advantage. Though for years we

IJ1Vlll:l VI IIllt: Ut:W ISClellce, all walS yell ISl'Ullg-,

without even the appearance of a summer. At

iength. I hit upon the happy idea of making
a vast cannon, whose projectile would form a
vehicle for the nronulsion of man to other

tIDe congresses. Unlike those times in which

years and ages intervened between the sowing
and'the blossoming of public enterprises, my
favourite bill was read, debated, and-passed in
powers to illobilise millionaire armies and amass
arsenals of machinery. My triumph was more
valuable to me than Arbela to Alexander, Aus-
terlitz to Napoleon, or Waterloo to Wellington.

lllCll III LCIl Huun, LIHtll LllC Y l;UUIU III LtJU Y CUB'.
In the course of the evening I had embodied an
organization of workers and thinkers which was'
truly worthy of the groat mission. No sooner
was this done than there flowed in unon us a

and the base for the breech; all that was required
by this method being but to make a five-mile
vertical tunnel and the necessary ram-rod appa-
ratus. After due deliberation we found Mount
 THF. A~1'RONOMT(,!A.T. OTTN_ 9.!=!7

prOJectIles WOUIU oe so tnnmg.

Simultaneously,_we mustered 50,000 pioneers
to prepare the way for the work by forming
railways, tramways, tubeways, and road-
UT!l"U'Q tnO""th" .. "T;t.h uTn ..lr",hnrtQ <:InC! ,,tr...,,_hnll,,oa

supply us with the requisite working plant.

The vast organization included legions or-
chemists, under Priestley -Farad.ay and Hales
Cavendish, whose laboratories comprised lakes

ULllllJU WIUl 1J1l01111J" VI -L-LI;;I\,;UIlJi:l.ll },VWl;;l, },1;;1-

formed exploits that shamed those of the fabled

Vulcan.
The mountain was a shrine of zeal and ac-
tivitv. Aerial machines. and cadets on ealrle-
238 TIlE TWE~TY-XINTH CENTURY.

tnc HUgC gun. vnce ngnlllllg amung a Jungle

of thcore~s, theories, and calculations, my
'pupils were now battling triumphantly with the
real and gaining victories in handicraft and
hmlneraft. mluhtv in themselves hut mluht,;er

times presumptuously called enlightened would

have occupied all the furnaces of Britain a whole
month, was effected by our .tiny' electrical
machines in ten hours. The cooling, which

~ ..I..U::::; J.VU.LU.&...Lll5 V.l. \l1...LU ll..l.lJ.l.a-LLlVllllauv lIl.1..LI.LI.'t:iJ. oUU'

with its interior surface of four square kilo-

metres, was no greater task to our engineers
than in war ages it would have been for Bir-
mingham to make a blunderbuss.
 THE A.STRONOMICAL GUN. 239

menli8, so lillali wnen lille lUll COrnpleilleIU I1t1.U

been concentra~~d, Mount Everest was invested

by a larger abny than Xerxes led across the
Hellespont. Yet how different the enterprises.
Thev went tn Rla.u$)'llter a.nd he Rla.uQ'htered. we

The closing scenes of the mighty enterprise

are impressed on so many paintings, and so
vividly described in history's pages, as to render
any description from my pen a stale superfluity..
. .

.LLI.u.J.ar~u. (LlJ U.1...l0 0pu ... , \.Jvu.J.u IJlit; ~\.Jt::i.l..Lv uo au.tS.LI.U

but one familiar· and dear to the memory of

every soul?
Meanwhile the preparations and precautions
in prospect of the conclusion of the work were
 240 THE TWE~TY-NT~Trr r.I"~N'TTTRY_

eartIl-worKs ana. arsenalS lor tIle astronomICal

artillerists, while myrmidons of workers were
following their instructions. Naturalists, no
less energetic in the good cause, had forwarded
n ...rrI;nQ of (>hnn~o;Q A!'IO"lAQ !'Inri !'Ill;ArI rrAnA ..... fn

were framing calculations to ascertain the exact

amount of pulsion force necessary to bear a
projectile t~ moon-land, and the exact limits
of time within which should take place the

1.11 VC::fLlg-aLIUlll:!.

Father Time had just fingered the date,

August 22, 2836, when the gun was finished.
Noble consummation!' A few months had seen
the construction of a work which had focussed

l·
 THF. A~TRONOMmA L mIN. 24.1

snell, tneIr mtenors were renaerea. cnamom:s

fitted up with all the essentials for the voyage.
Chief among these was an air-ship ready for
inflation, which comp;ris~d the apparatus and
nrov1Aion~ npp.PAARrv for lifA in non_l'Ipril'll

would be enabled to descend at will whither-

soever he desired. ,This magical metamorphosis
entailed complex machinery, but I resolved to
stake my life upon its accuracy. ¥illions

Many preliminary experiments were made

with the gun before a conclave of the world's
virtuosi. For the convenience of the multi-
tudes. extemnore leviathan telesconic batteries.
242 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

mlluon pall's or eyes.

We handselled tho ordnance with blank
cartridge, and sllbj octed it to crucial tests to
prove its soundness. With the moon as a
tar.Q'et. and the vertical nit as a .Q'Un. the QTp..at

by the hand of Shakspeare Socrates. The out- .

burst of noise which was excited might have·
shamed thunder,-the vibration was mightier
than a mighty earthquake. The smoke over-

missile as it made its transcendent ascension..

Our delight was unbounded as we beheld the
thunder-bolt striking its mark. A cheer from
millions of throats thereafter heralded the
 T"R'F. A~TRONOMmA T. lHThL 9,d.~

aIrectlOn 01 our astronOmIcal nutt. l:Sy thls

time eight missiles were in mid-air. Every
succeeding ball was further from the mark, but
the gravitation attraction of Diana caught
Hl<>Tn Ql1 Qntl hn"'A +]-'ATn +n hA... hnQnTn ghrmrlnll"

I have devoted a lifetime of brain toil,

inspired by the stimulus of a· soul saturated
with enthusiasm, seems on the eve 'of consum-
mation. These famous missiles are the har-

l'U.J!lll:S, ii.llU III lIlltUr CUIIl.J!ii.llY l:SptUlli lIlle even-

ing. Our deli"f?erations, erst amid wintry

difficulties, were now amid the summer scenes
of jubilant hope. Our labours so long with
the nlou!rhshare of inauirv in the remons of
of uncertainty, were now justly proud to
emerge into the enjoyment of such brilliant
realities.
It .was a great disadvantage that the gun,
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c- - - -- - .I:"" ..- 0 - - ----

future the, task of making ordnance which

might be revolved and suit for firing at any
declination or inclination. By dint of a series
of statistics, framed by my own pupils, based

trontIers t>etween the graVItatIOn torces ot our

globe and its satellite, leaving me to burst the
shell when there, and pilot my way to the
virgin world. For my return due provision
"UTaQ -mailA M-,;r hallnrm "UTaQ fr<lTnAiI nof ""~.n;""n'"
descent. . Foresight, I think, scarcely over-
looked a single detail.
 CHAPTER XXII.
INTRA-BOMB VOYAGES.-I AM BURIED ALIVE.

lI~U.LL U.I. ll..IOt,n.•.I.J...1l:; lL .lew li~.I.U.1 lJJ..l.,P0. ~.l..1 lJJ..U::;; ,Llla.1.Ut::ill

experimental voyage my soul was a waif in a

storm of intense suscitations. With conflicting
hopes and doubts, I allow myself to be cribbed
into mv aerial carriaEre if all ErO well. or mv

CTISIS. Under me lies a ~ell imprisoned in

dust, ready to be liberated with the key of an
electric spark. In the next beat of my palpi-
tating heart, a mighty sound and a mightier
j' ,,
 temporary overthrow of my presence of mind.
Scarcely is the explosion over, when I arise,
examine my instruments, test them, study my
bearings, and note the direction in which I am
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- ------0------ ---- -----------]

light which illuminates my cell has been

quenched by an explosion so virulent.
It had been settled that I shot;tld be tossed
. 20,000 kilometres beyond the earth; and so

tIme not been cast in the mould of devotIOn.

l\:Iy reflections crowded the· chambers of my
brain, and flitted before me with equal rapidity
and vividity. The ideas of a week seemed
+n hn. nr......... rin:no ...... r1 ~",.+,.,. +'hn. ~r.."V'n"n.nCfCf 1'\.+ II +O"nT'
9.d.R TlTl;' '1'W1<'1I1'T'V_1I1T1I1'T'lT ('I1<'1I1'T'TTPV

WIt!l courageous JOY. 1 ~elt tnumphant In tlle

achievement of ploughing into the realms of'
space in a few minutes to a distance which
it would have taken the finest clippers in
TY'U',\TlOpnl,;n "';Tnll.C ...,..o.n-..o +1"'\ QI",,"u"\'rY'IT\l;ol. UTho.Tl T

4 4

I donned my ultra-aerial breathing equipments,

tied· myself to the car, and applied the trigger.
A fierce yet silent concussion ensued. What
on earth would have caused an explosion

ana Clangour. ll'.leantlme tne uneartlllY aarKness,

superadded to the unearthly silence, oppressed
me with dreadful uncertainty. For a few
seconds I was spun about like a top, the be-
wllclA-Mn!7' Whirl of t.hA mR.~hlnA oVAl'WhAlmlnrr
Prometheus have been more dreadful? My Mont-
golfier gained an equipoise before my mind.
The sun, moon, stars, and the world for a while
seemed to reel around me like huge wheels. My

..L UllJ.VVOt:i\.L J.ll) J.IC.U..lUO, IIllJ. t:i VY III J ~v.l..l Vll lJ.lUJ"

floor of the car, and, shutting my eyes, implored

deliverance: Nothing· but a kind Providence
rallied me from my emotions, for strength of
my own was drowned in fri2'ht.

amused to notice how accurately they retained

their relative positions, owing to each and all
being taxed equally by the impartial tariff of gra-
vitation. Having, however, applied my engines, I
., 'I' , ., ,"" '1 '1 '1 , '1 11
be enabled to reach the moon. My heart-
hatched anticipations of this r9cket system are
realized. The world is about to enter on a
new era, the Cilrtain that screens which I have

nil lIllO DUV.LUO V.L ...."ow ..L:,jUOJ.cUJ.U. .1..1.0.L0.1. UIU

welcomed by my fellow-citizens, and laid under

the exaction of supplying them with an account'
of my ascension and descension. Thereafter I
am blown bv special tube to Constantinonle.

thundered out my performances; the moon

,became the topic of the hour. But for myself
I found my ~hief delight in the prospect of'
being so soon enabled to plant my feet upon its,
.,
 -
of the shell and the emergence of the balloon
in its interior, so that what at first caused me
terror as bitter as the threatemng frown of"
death, ultimately cost me not so much as a

n.UUICUll UllU 111 vuue tile l11UUll. ~ WUIS l'l"UV lueu

with an infinity of comforts. My balloon was

stocked with stores alike for mind and body.
In addition to a six month~' supply of food and
condensed air. I had a library of microsconic

Nothing was awanting that ingenuity could

suggest.
I would have been accompanied in my great
tour, but, considering its danger, I thought it
which I should be shot to the moon.' In taking
farewell of my friends, I felt how painful it
was to be snatched from the world- in the
Summer of life, to be pitched probably into the
, J -, 'I • J -, rn'l 'I

throw off the coils of my weakness and face my

heart-wrenching task.
Eleven o'clock in the evening is the hour
.appointed for the commencement of the services.

-eyes upon the performance of this great drama

in history. The moon itself appears endued
with adventitious splendour, as if aware she
was the cynosure of all eyes. As night had
____ 1 ___ .l v _____ "'- ! __ !.L_ .. _1.1 _ ____ .L1_ Ll _ ___ _
rendezvous of nearly one-fifth of the human
race. ;By the magical-conjurations of art, the
mighty mountain was illuminated with electric
and magnesium lights, while thousands of rail-

w u

hours previously had been making sundry in-

vestigations in the Andes, world's clergymen
from all points of the globe, and the governors
of the various provinces of the earth, are each

on the bosom ot lV10unt J!.jverest.

The myriads marshalled, the imposing ser-
vices commenced. Prayers, urged by the
momentum of millions of glowing hearts, are
'U7l'1ft.t>t1 t.n ht>l'Ivt>n O"'l'It;nnQ "'t>l'Ilt>t1 ,,"";th t.hA
254 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY•

.IIHt.: ucrelIlUll.lCM I:Lrt.: .lUM1I. ~ .lee.l 1IIle 1S1Irenguil U.l

my weakness, and the weakness of my strength.

Long ere the solemnities come to a close, the
citadel of my moral courage has surrendered
to cowardice. Even when I look UD and behold

world into the shell which is to bear me beyond

its pale, the feelings which hold possession of
my breast are such as smother my manliness.
I stagger towards the bomb as if it were my

think my mission worthy of a martyrdom.

My memory will ever picture with the richest
colours of vividness the immeasurable tribes
.of mv fellow-men with hands uplifted to their
 INTRA-BOMB VOYAGER. 255

·euner 'to seal my tame or my ta'te. vv nue

the prayers of my fellow-men ascend to the
Most High, my prison is pressed into the
breech of the cannon. I fall upon my knees
:ut thlR uwfnl momAnt. R.nn rAR10'l'l l11V~Alf

my reHections the bomb is driven from the

depths of the gun, a percussion of terrific
, intensity ensues, a whiz follows indicative of
my progress through the atmosphere, and then
."... "

<AI DI..LL6.LV U~U,U v .... .LLI. J .LLLLL.L..L\J1.A. 1'U,.I.0U ...L. U/.I.ll .I. ... u.~.I.\,..I\A.

thousands of kilometres into the regio~s of

space. A moment before I was in the realms
of night, now I am under the eye of the orb
of day. Mv speed, thoug-h almost electrical,
to my UnWOrlQly nIght, mat 1 SIt Qown com-
posedly, work at my instruments, and study
my bearings. At length I arrive within 80,000
kilometres of my destination. I look out upon
it frorra th .. no..t_l,oln in t.h .. nw'nv of 1nV' ;..nn

long longed, whell I was actually on the brink

of one of the wildest misfortunes that man was
ever dispensed. This beat of my pulse thrills
delight through every artery and capillary,

me ITUIIl my Iron Ie~er~. worus

n llere are l.UC
that can paint the anguish which boils within
my soul at this junctureJ Desperation itself in
it:) attempts to mend the damaged instrument
onlv Rn~~p.p.dR in bein.Q" mocked bv fate. Hup.h
 INTRA-BOMB VOYAClER. 2Ji7

sneu reacnes US !WI nmIts, topples over, ana

begins to de~cend. .
As it capsized I was knocked down and nearly
stunned. Such were the gripes of my despair
othA-rwlRA. thfl.t T lfl.v t.hin"kinO' (lAllth wnnl(l hA

-
ere He allowed His chosen people to enter the
promised land, wearied them out with marches
and countermarches in a barren wilderness.
How then, thought I, should I complain even if,

J.U.l .w.u. Ul'Ull IIll'" "'1:1..1' Ill! .u1:l..1·llllll~. llm UJ: :t

llJ.

instruments. At length, on looking out, I

perceive that the quiver of misfortune is still
filled with arrows with which to pierce my
already bleedinQ' soul. Horror of, horrors!
 n~o

rendering my prison waterproof. Just as I

• finished this work, my iron cage was concussetl
against the atmosphere with such terrific vio-
lence, that my soul was lost in the mazes of
~ _____ ~'L~1~.L_ TT _ _ 1___ _ T __ _ _ 'L 1~--= ___ _ T

------'" ---'" --------- ---- - .. _'" , ---

turing me with the darts of inexpressible
ravings. My hallucinations were. as frightful
as if my soul had been the head-quarters of
a pandemonium. But that the phantasies of

W hen consciousness regained Its sceptre, 1

was so weak that I was astonished my soul
had not relinquished its shattered tabernacle.
Surely, mused I, I have been chastened by a
Phon,+"...,,'o .f."n 11 .f.".n._ ~"TV1on. ,n.r\.I""\.;1 ..
....... ",..,..,.,..u~ 1"\. 17' __ _____
 irradiated my small territories with an artificial
sun in the shape of my electric lamp, and rescued
my sense of sight from the horrors of an ocular
. famine. I then refreshed my body with 'some
_ ..: _.. 1_~ .. ___ ..1 _____ •• 1 l.. ____ ..1!~_ ..l.._ 'D!1~1_

-.1.- J - - - ~ - 0-

was forced to allow time to run its course with-

out being marked by its trusty automatic
sentinels and patrols. My consolation was
wherefore should I trol:lble myself regarding

nor tne pleasant VICISSItudes ot sunslnne and

darkness, but the .monotony of an unearthly
silence, ~d the sameness and tameness of a
prison prospect? What use had I for instru-
TnAnt.A nf hnrnlnnou? Whaf 11<1" ...;."..." fl."" ..."" .f",...
the husbanding of my fuel and food, and in the
improvement of the physiological apparatus to
economize both. Meantime, I realized the mad-
dening truth of my insulation from all earthly
~!__ T _______ ~: __ T ____ .3 T ____ 1.3 _____ _

.. --------------, -------- -------- --

pleasing prospect.
""~.".L V.&.II.&..
 ANNALS OF THE

TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY;
OR,

~gt ~nt.abiagrnpgll .a£ tgt t:mtg Irtsibrnt .a£ tgt

~.arlb- Jtpttblir.

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

lLonbon: I

SAM UEL TIN SLE Y,

10, SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND.
1874.
I
l The rigA! of Ir«tI.Ilalion is ruerved.]
 LOND ON: PRINT ED !lY
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OU.l..NCBRY LANB , :a.C.
 CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

uv

IV. WINTER IN THE MOON 78

V. TUE MOON BEGINS TO BE POPULATED 92
VI. I RETURN TO TUE WORLD 110
, ~o
 .il.1U~.il.L~ U~'- Ttl~

TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

weeks 01 my entomlJment lJy a smgle stroke of

my pen. Language pigments cannot paint the
darkness, dreariness, and depression whieh
weighed like ~ountains on my sorrow-stricken
Qnnl l:rnno ofto... hnno -A~l'lz-o...otl +hOTl lOT\,."";,,'h,,,1

-
I was tortured by still more dreadful realities.
-
Now a mirage or
the mind allured me with
hoaxing hopes, anon the frontiers between sleep
and waking were so swept away, that I was
2 THR TWRNTY- NINTH ~RN'rTTRY.

lOr line DIme .L WOUlU nave gone mau. ~ome­

times I prayed for deliverance, sometimes for
death. Ships were passing over me, the lashing
of whose paddles I heard with a distinctness
whlp.h wn~ thA mo~t. tJl.nt.nll7.1n.o- op.rlRion to mv

Unceasingly thes~ reflections a~ose before me

like scourges to my bold, perhaps proud ambi-
tion, forcing me to retreat in contrition to the
only refuge and fortress of the broken-hearted
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~ CUll <>~.1ll Oll~Vll.1I.JOU .1J.1 .1HJ A..1ll~UUll.1 U.1 LlurLY

cubic metres. Hermetically sealed within its

iron frontiers, hope would make me trust tl;lat
Heaven had immured me for a time to smother
mv vanity and force mv spiritual £!'rowth. Jonah
slIllllar chastIsement, peradventure to receIve a
similar deliverance. At other times the twilight
of doubting hope would almost darken into the
night of despair, and I would dread my days
"WAl"A nllTYl hAl"AfI l'Inil t.1HIt. T "Wl'I.f'I. ilnOTYlAiI to hnVA

searching for me from the very moment of my

fall, and had overrun every square inch of the
ocean's bed within an area of thousands of
miles until they discovered ~y domicile, no

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my gladness, and then gratefully raised my

Ebenezer.
Meanwhile the joy of those who had dis-
covered mv retreat was so temnercd with doubt.
more, and the missile was raised to the surface
of the sea, and placed on board the Mayflower,
which. formed the flagship of my brethren.
Before an assemblage of two thousand, whose
., .,

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~ ".v~."

a few metres of my friends, resolved to break

the spell of their fears by letting them know I
was still alive. I therefore mustered my feeble
physical forces, and struck one of my broken

weep with delight. A few seconds afterwards

the shell of the iron egg was burst, and I, its
chick, was enabled to walk out, and reappear
upon the world from which I had been so long
~n~_n_~~.1 1\...._ .c....:~_.1 _________l..._1 ___ ..1 _:J.l...
,only my ashes. ji'or myself, my eyes were
.almost overpowered by the intensity of the
light of day, and my mind by'the pleasure of
.again beholding those whom I had never hoped
+n ho'hnlrl .... v'h.,""+nrl h ..... +'h", ..,."..... fn ..."n "f
7 '"'"'~

" "
shattered. Want of sun had blanched my skin,
want of food had attenuated my buxom muscles
into wizened filaments, and my rounded and
plump figure into a mere skin-bound skeleton.

tne snoUlUers or YOUtmw VIgour wltn "(;ne oauges

,of senility.
To Santa Cruz, our nearest port, we now
'hastened, that the joyful tidings might circum-
Anrp.nd t.hA p'lohA. Hnd we be the sooner em-
vaded, and the victories it had gained. While
my mental powers had been manacled, and
while I had been segregated from mankind
and from usefulness, I was delighted to find the

blown to our several homes. T4e tidings of

my safety were, at the same time, published
throughout the earth, an operation for which
a few minutes sufficed. The joy generated by

ITom eacn SOUl-altar as an mcense to neaven.

Next morning I found the world's newspaper
heavily laden with preans over my; deliverance,
and speculations upon the prospects of ultra-
aeriR.l . trR.VE~lllnD'_ It. W"!'I.!'I R. rlp.h l'ANlmnAnl'lA
as I had regained my health, retUrned to toil
in that vocation to which my soul had been
so long espoused. Antams - like, every occa-
sion in which I had been tossed back upon the
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, "

~~ J:~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~c ~"~~~~ ~~~.~~.~ J' ~~~~ ~ •• ~ .. ~

months we had completed preparations to make

another supreme attempt to cross the mundo-
lunar ferry. The error of the last voyage dis-
counted the infaltibility of our present tactics.

was conducted with undiluted success. The

possibility of failure was reduced to an ImpoR-
sibility.
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CHAPTER II.
I REACH THE MOON •

.
the embodiment of sublimity. Were a descrip-
tion of its grandeur attempted the most skilful
word-painting would only distort what it meant
to embellish.

my Iron eago WUll a lirlumpnami Step, assureu

that ere I again cast my eyes upon my fellow-
men, or my fellow-men cast their eyes upon me,
.the realms of Diana would be in our possession.
NAXt. momAnt. t.hA hll11At. in which T WR.R hi1letp,d
 ,. ...... _.1. _...... . ............... .. .. __ ..... n

where man and his mightiest works were

dwarfed into invisibility. During the entire
Hight I was imbued with sanguine expecta-
tions. Every instrument was working per-
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0--·--·- .--- .. - - - .------ .. --- J-----J--01 .. - -

dering the while that the quiescence in which I

was enshrined was consisiient with a motion so
.amazing. At length the bomb nears the point
.at which it is necessary for me to have it burst.

mqment ! 1)0 you bring me lite or death-the

moon or a grave? For a second I am held in
the clutches of suspense. But delight soon
succeeds when I find myself firmly seated in
TYl"n' ~o,.. onrl +hn. h ...r..lr . . . n +"01 ~ ......Tl+CI nf Yn"'l:T hn't"l"to h
my electric engines, and steered towards the
world's great serenader. In twenty minutes I
reach the frontiers where the gravitation of the
earth and moon are neutralized. For a few

01

The moon is the earth to which my fealty is

due, and the earth which maintains supremacy
over my movements. I am now essentially a
lunarian. I am the first among mankind who has

VIctory, tnougnt ~, IS now gamea. atter unnum-

bered obstacles and heart-rending defeats.
After the sweat.:; of travail I earn the sweets of
fortune. At the outlay of incalculable pain and
n!:llTIQ T lunTA nf>'hlAvA(J Qllf>'h n. f>OTI(lllP.f':t, n.R
 , 1 1

to achieve the greatest victory ere won by

science, was paralyzed with gladness. With
feelings unutterable I saw the outlines of the
lunar mountains, vall~ys, and plains become so
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--- - ---- ~---- - ---- -- - -":J.

naturally steered, for there was one of the·

moon's richest plains. The woods, and hills,
and valleys, and streams were meanwhile
assuming their respective hues. Soon my

tpmutes through the torce ot the puzzle, but It

at length arrived at the judgment that the
colour was peculiar to the moon. New trans-
ports of joy seized my soul over the discovery,
.fn. ... nno 1,"0 I"\.Tl .o.o",,+h ...,£,\"ltl ...;'U'o 1 ~+'" h£UJI"+"l"T 0,....,.1
 lIrst supposed that the dot 1 had notlCed com-
prised a few roods, but, behold, as I approached,
it widened into square kilomMres.
Time and my chariot Hew on so quickly,
+1,<>+ T "nnn ,mnT +1,0 l;noa ...... on+" nf +1,0 'UTnnilt>l"_

- -
plantation, that I resolved to make it the site
wherein the moon's human histocy should find
its cradle. Examining the spectacle more
accurately, my mind, already overgorged with

amlU "!;ne curren"!; OJ my JOYS, ~ uorreu my

trans-aerial breathing equipments to test its
air with the naked mouth. My first breath
, reassured me, for lunar air proved alike whole-
somA. rP.frP.f~hin,O'. and nurA. Now within the
The scenery, before like a brilliantly illumi··
nated panorama in a dark starlit room, is now
a world enveloped by an azure firmament,
from which the stars are excluded. In a few
, . ., " . , .

tions on approaching the lunar garden of Eden,

where I, the moon's Adam, am about to alight,
are fanned into flame as I receive this welcome
from the denizens of Diana. I feel that the

throw myself upon its VITgm soil, and give

way to a tOlTent of the most intense suscita-
tions which ever stormed the citadel of my
soul. Prayers are my only utterances, and
40 ____ _ ~ .j.l. __ l~_~:~:_~ rnl. _____ :n .j.l. .. n 1.. __
 of the earth shall now swell and embrace that
·of the moon. We hasten towards the time
when the historical rivers of the individual
planets shall converge into the oceanic history
~C .j.1-.~ n~T~~ n"n.j.~~ An;C;~ 1-.,,~,.1 """';.j.1-. ~_~

01

of murder-trading nations. No despotic king-

craft shall taint its rule; no ambitious priest-
craft, under a religious guise, shall crowd its
.annals w:ith crIme. God shall be its ruler;

to the ,curse 01 a alVlSlon 01 tongues; no

.spiritual arrogance of its members shall induce
the greater curse of a division of sects; no
.Sodoms or Gomon-ahs shall require deletion
.fl'01"ll ~+Q O'",oO'l'~nl""T· 110 11,.,1110'''' Q1,~ll 1,0 1'0_
 I REACH THE MOON. 15

or nnsauwropy snall ue conuauanu; taxes,

poverty, intrigues, monetary systems, and all
the stings of devil-craft, shall here find no resi-
dence; the. curses of outraged nature shall be
fI.~ thorolluhlv exnllnued a~ tho (lnr~p.~ of ont-

-
bounds, but thou shalt call thy walls salvation,
and thy gates praise.:'
While in this pleasing reverie, I was aroused
, b_y a beautiful sheep-like animal licking my

U1. HJ.IV \'V UJ. 1.u., UllU. pu~~",,,~,,,u. oJ. "'''''''<:>J. p u \'V <:>1. ~ U1.

agility. Many of the mammalia were larger

than elephants, many taller than giraffes. Some
of the birds were three times larger than
condors. many of the insects bigger than
 1 fl THF. TWF.NTV- NTNTH f!F.NTTTRY.

ana. some mUltlpea.s; some were Ol-wmgea.,

some tri-winged, and some multi-winged; some
were unicorns, some duocorns, and some multi-
corns. Stranger than all this, was their tame-'
npl'll'l. M v nl'Pl'lpn(\p. on lv py(\it.p(I t.hpil' ~llMOl'lit.v.

tokens of the allegiance of the lunar residents to

the majesty of man. Happy country, the felicity
reigning among your creatures shows how peace
is natural to brutes! It must have been a fall

V¥~J~\..JJ....L G.LlJ.LO\lO V.L l'UlOU "'5~O "'~'p.J.'CIO-';:;;.LLlJ UJ..J.La..LI...10U.

. beasts, for a disobedience and a fall n~ver

rendered you savage! Even now, I am another
Adam in another world, giving names to an
unfallen Fauna.
 17

thIs was because the small gravitation powers

of the moon rendered me only one-fifth of my
weight on earth. The least exertion made me
leap like an automaton, or sent me sprawling
r. .... +l.o ,.....",,,, Tf T ...,;"l.o.1 +,.. ....,,117" T .... ,.....f,.. ...rnn.1

"
so revolted against my will, that I believe I
would have .broken them had it not been for my
moon-acquired lightness and my tardy velocity
in falling. My extravagant posturings whirled

Tall trees, unner wnose Durnen nouses In tne

nether world might have groaned, I could raise
and carry with ease. Rocks I could lift as if
their composition had been cork. To me this
(>;'rI'll"rYlQt!'lnf'A "W!'IQ rlAQt;nArl to TI'r()VA !'I. nliO'ht.v
1'-2

body, in order that I might with the greater

freedom maintain my equilibrium. But I was
still unreconciled to the physical laws of. the
moon, and it was long ere my will could master
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-~--J - ----- _. ------c--- -- -----0------- -- - 0

such a poor attempt at walking, in spite of

ballast, I donned my electric wings, and tried
flying. With great delight I found that I could
soar with a celerity and ease of which the

ested was thIs strange a~dlence, that whatever

I did they watched me, wherever I went they
followed me, and whenever I stopped they
crowded around me. ·Meanwhile, as a COIU-
sights piled upon my memory new phenomena.
Even my ears, charmed with the vocal music
of the sylvan choristers, accompanied by the
instrumental orchestra of the sighing trees and
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midst of marvels. No man had ever had his

amazedness stretched so far Ia length or for so.
long a time. I was in a great plain, affluent
in vegetation, and palisaded by a noble per-

lessly varying in its phases, yet anchored in'

the heavens despite its incessant rollings, and
at rest amid ·its changes-the emblem of active
stability and busy steadfastness.
1) __ J.l,.~~ J.~_~ T l,.~,.1 _~nl~_~,.1 +l.n+ l"."~n .. ~n
example. A most refreshing repast was this,
the first meal tasted by man on lunar soil.
Not the less interest it had to me when, on
analysis, I found that my viands contained

':;.L':;\)~.L.L\) ':;llO.Lll':;O vu~ VJ. J.lly /JUllVVJ.l, U,llU, llU,VJ.l.L O

extemporised them into wood-cutting apparatus,

1 felled some trees, carved them into shape,
and, ere the sun had advanced half a degree, I
had erected the moon's first domicile.

moons ere I had found a site more pleasant.

Battling single-handed the while, I found my
engines of infinite use, and in themselves a host.
Never had any man placed III solitude been
,..
 T RF.ACH THR MOON'_ 21

lUY smgw eleCtTIC engme COutU ClaIm to oe tne

child of two hundred and ten inventor parents.
Above all, I did not require to fortify myself
against wild animals, including man, the wildest
flf alt NR.V_ T fonnd in thf' hl'ntf' ~l'f'R.tion mv

to mount it and make it my prime minister.

With somewhat tremulous feelings I led it out, .
and threw myself upon its back. Already aware
of the astonishing swift~s of lunar animals, I
- -

Q.l"'.l.LLl, .u" CVC.lJ .lC"'P, vvucu UJ.o~u. "V .lUll O"'llVP,

covering as much as fifty metres. Craters,.
mighty defiles, and trees, were no obstacle, in
its way, for they were vaulted over with as
much ease as thorou~h-bred horses would have
they tollowed. 1 was delighted with my darmg
ride and my imposing retinue. In my ecstasy
I spurned on my charger, and tested its powers
of endurance and speed to the uttermost. With
"TlQ'U7'OohnrP olr;n o~t1 ",....1,.,,"""';n.,1 h ..... n.o ....h;nrr ;4- flottT

outstrip my escort, for the quicker I rode the

more fleetly they pursued. Was ever king,
thought I, honoured with such a noble caval-
eade? Did the fox-chasers of old ever witness

1i1iU PUl:!l:!cl:!l:!eu ;lIue lIlOl:!l. uueweul. I:!UUJeC11S l.ll

its Fauna. In my royal tour I reviewed my

realms over a tract of 360 kiIometres,-a tour
which showed me that my house was the humble
eanital of a mi!!'htv rU!!'ose scra!!'Q'V nlain. be!!'irt
DOQy-gu~r<1S. J:iy some hlQQen tascmatlOn my
presence seemed to magnetize the denizens of
Diana. Meantime I crossed fords, ascended
hills, rode through the most luxuriant forests,
~nrl ~TY'I~rl fho TY'I""f l""'TohT "'ITO llon" onrl il"nTn"

Returning to my palace, my kingly duties

were supplanted by the menial operations of
•
the kitchen. The moon's Prometheus, I now
made a fire. I eagerly watched the gleams of

uy "(;IllS "(;lme wan "(;ne laoours or "(;fie uay, anu

observing that my animal satellites had already
ensconced themselves under trees, in order
to sleep, I thought it time to follow their
p.xl1.mnlp..
 Anno Lunre dws 1. To the creator of the·
boundless heavens, among which the world and
its satellite may be said (to be two grains of sand
upon the sea-shore of infinity, praise and honour
'hn. oI'U"u.... ,..£l"';J fJ1£'\. ~""nrt'o ""","OCfnoo;I"'\""C'! hn. 1-'00 n..:l...1n.;I

promised land. From above I beheld that on

the east of the meridian all was daylight and
spring, and on the west darkness and winter.
The meridian was a striking borderland of

mgnt lrontler, wnere It was crossen oy tne

equator, I steered my course.
Arrived on this foreign world, I, alone and
prostrated before heaven, rejoiced in the eman-
l'lnntlcm nt rrHln trmn 'hi~ ROOO vp.fI.r~' p.fI.ntivihr
moon's king, erected my palace, an humble
domicile, of three hours'labour. I then com-
menced the great harvest of research in the
fields of lunar science--a harvest so rich and so

~ ~ ~

the greatest store of unknown and unwitnessed

phenomena ever presented to man.
Made a short exploration to the south.
Ascended to the height of three miles to study

up cosmlcal nues-carneu my mlnu DaCK 110

-those times when the moon's ten thousand
furnaces were in full blaze. Such had been
the heat of the now cooled lunar kilns, that I
fonnn thp.v lHl.n p.rn~tp.n manv rieh metals from
more. than those riches. I found every pool an
aquarium, every tree an aviary, and every cave
a menagerie. When naturalists in the sublunary
sphere leap with ecsta.sy over the discovery of
~_ .. _..1~~~_:1-.~..1 :_~~~4- 4-_ ~1._4- ~~4- __ 4- ~ .. n4- ~~T

.L CJ

mens, nor lift my eyelids without noticing the

most astonishing wonders of animal life? The
nuncio, not of one, but twenty sciences, I am sur-
feited with my discoveries. What treasures of

earthly customs. Though Its day IS as long as

fifteen mundane days, I am eating and sleeping
at my wonted hours. Our world forms a
noble clock in the lunar firmament. By its
volntionR T ~n.n mn.rk t.lll~ vprv mlnntp",' .Tn",+'
repeatedly turned my eyes. What heavenly
jewels they are in the azure casket of the
moon's firmament! Even Terra, with a disc
visually thirteen times that of the sun, appears
nr. 'I'Yloa'l"l nAnaA~ +r. .,.1,0 ,.......0.0+ r..,..'h .n.+ rlO""l"T V.o.+

my cloudy vexations are fringed by golden

joys when I consider this world has been the
residence of millions of human beings, the
meanest of whom God has gifted with a soul

reaemptlOn 01 HS race. .ne conquereu "(;ne uevu

in the devil's own star, and outshone the glare
of hell by the sunshine of grace.
After the exertion of some hours, I took my
hH.lloon-hAd into mv houRP-o and. ralSIn.()' an
 28 THE TWENTY-NINTH C1ENTTTRY.

OI JOY. ~weet, tllererore, were my areams anu

l'Cfrqshing was my rest.
Second day. Explored the land from my home
to the lunar Apennines on the back of Rocket,
flN~omns:l.nip.(l hv mv nnimnl fI.rmv. Tn thP.RA

. mountain scenery made my soul giddy with

admiration. .Occasionally I looked down upon
caverns in whose capacious mouths Etnas would
have been morsels. In them the awful was

IJUHljlv~, UHU HUov IJVU1U"a~l) VL OVLU lULU l)llV~J.-.

Again I viewed sun-lying valleys, carpeted

below by millions of grasses and flowers, em-
broidered by lines and clumps of trees, and
embraced bv !!'rcat mountain chains. on whose
riance. Anon I saw a circle of hills, which, like
a geographical fortification, encircled a great
plain. Sights fantastic. and I'ights romantic,
sights gorgeous and sights grotesque, sights

~Vll~J.a."~,, ~i:IOU"VU UJ ~Hv ~VJ.llJ.ULA.~UJ.v VJ. O!'J.U.l5

and winter, light and shade. While the

shoulders of the mountain were bathed in a
Hood of sunshine, their feet on the shaded side
were still blanketed in a bed of darkness. The

had thawed into cataracts; below, the streams

were ice-locked-above, they were purling on,
rejoicing in their freedom. _
My adventures for the day culminated when
T _, P £'i. A _ ~ __ 1 __ L
Q{\

behind, and make the journey alone. Partly

by my wings, partly by my feet, and partly by
my hands, I clambered up the ice-corniced
escarpments. I had to tread a path more torn
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J --] _ .. - - 0 -- - J .. ---0- - - - - - - -----J -- ---

lunar laws of' gravitation, I incurred no risk

soever. Once, on moving along the narrow
ice-edged blade of a precipice, I slipped and
fell. Frightened at first, I was re-assured on

harnlless, feather-like subsidence. In short, it

took so many seconds for me to drop half the
depth of the abyss, that I had time to use my
wings and remount to the spot from which I
1,~rl .j., . . _ hl~rl Ql,~.,..j.1TY ~~~., .j.l,~n ~~ ~~~~~ .. ~
 'l1

another accident. I noticed an. avalanche

brush down from a spot a kilometre over-
head, which would have buried me in its icy
grasp had my pinions not purchased my
~~~~4-~?

- -.1..-

inner sides of the mountainous chalice were

composed of most magnificent concentric
terraces, which, like flights of stairs, led down
to the great blue ice blocks. I at once saw

WIth pursued mvestlgatlOns m the mterests ot

twenty different sciences. After three hours'
labour, I returned to where I had left Rocket,
and found that the faithful animal had not
rangc·. with daylight on the one sIde and
darkness on the other, I lit my electric lamp,
remounted Rocket, and descended into the
night-invested west, that I might study the
....lon;n.~ T.......... -1-'__ Trto':,..,.,.,.4-I"'It.COO T 1"n;l 4-.o~n.l1~

<..1

beguiled my attention from my work. After'

a few hours I unriddled to my satisfaction that
here the glaciers were powerful files, which
ground down the ribs of mountains; and

laoyrmtn ot lCe-veneerea gorges, ravrnes, ana.

ridges. My course would ha:ve been difficult at
noonday; but dipping down into regions where
night slumbered, and where winter had laid its
..l;nn",...u "TH'''''''''' T .r",lt th .. t <>'t'\V Tnnrru:mt. TnlO'ht.
 T RFACH THE MOON.

~y me 1iO line sagacuy or my slieeu. ...,0 rar

from apprehending danger, it bounded, chamois-
like, from ledge to ledge, with such cool preci-
pitancy and such unhesitating daring, as made
rnA fAAl "that T wa~ in ~afA ~ommmv. Rnt rnv

I discovered I was rushing along the brink of

a mighty precipice. Halting as soon as I could,
what was my horror to find, on my left hand,
a cavern which, to my eyes, appeared a bottom-

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h~d so daringly forsaken.

Leaving this highland district, 'to which the
wildest scenery of the nether world was tame,
I returned home bv a route to whose luxuriance
themselves: thy pertumes are ambrosIal; thy
air is purity itself. Delight expands my soul
as I behold thy animal and vegetable creation,
with their chains of orders and sub-orders

continuity! "
In my peregrinations to-day, I came upon
two of the balls that had been fired from the
Mount Everest cannon. One was plunged about

~ Journeyeu as rar eaSlJWaru as ~ JleUpllllUS ;

~ew over mountains of amazing height, valleys
of astounding depth, and meadows of the most.
lavish. v.erdure. All the while I noted the
minutfl Rtrllctllrfl of thfl Fauna and Flora hv
: Returned by another route, and viewed a
ehanging panorama of landscapes, new types
of animals and vegetables, and new strata of
minerals. By the time I had reached home

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and palace, haunted by the strange sensation

that my little hut was the only habitation in
this world, and I the only human inhabitant.
Yet, though a quarter of a million of miles

guardian ?Though my communications are

cut off from the world, they are not so with
heaven. Alone, I am not lonely, for, like
Enoch of old, I can walk with God. My
____ , ___ . , _____ LL _________] __ L __ 1 ___ 1~ ___ T __ _
 I am becoming naturalized to my position.
Custom has thus early empowered me to run
ahout on lunar soil without ballast. The gravi-
tation of Luna being so small, I can skip about
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J - - - - - J -, - - - - - - - - -J -J - - - - ------J --------

I spent some hours inquiring into the nature of

the moon's cuticle. The electrical engines of
my balloon I extemporized into a"boring-engine.
By its means I made eighty different artesian

moon's crust had 111 pre-Adamlte ages been

more toasted with heat than that of the earth,
it was now cooled to a greater depth.
In going home r discovered a great cave;
-t",nf",.,f;"",lhr nVA-r1111nO' hv R O'"r'ARt. nnQA n f ...nnlr
 untortunately, tune only permItted me to make
a few observations, and take a few sculpture-
photographs of several of the scenes. Among
its attractions were great veins of pure gold, a
Tn.;,..,.l,+"I:T nhQ'I'V\h.o... "'+ T\.,,"O nlnhoc-4-.....,.. no ~'-\6"...-r1o!.t:

taken from as great a depth as 1,000 metres.

. In arranging and classifying this material I
was engaged during the remainder of the day.
At the close of the work I saw that I had

tenselY warm. 1. tremOle wnen 1. tnmK tnat

the heat will continue to increase for a few
days. The luxuriance of lunar vegetation is·
now' displayed even in those valleys and on
+.hnQA rnnnn+~'nQ ...,.h,ph hn+ hun iI~.vl'l SlOOO WArp,
J.uwtlr wunu. Ul .LCIlgt:U, Humu UI UJ.tl J.t!UVtll:S u.n'
already five metres; in height many lunarian
plants are already ten metres.
Fifth day. This is the moon's first Sunday.
Mv nresence in this world hallows this day. for

tions I prayed earnestly for the neighbouring

world from which I had come, and of whose
dust I am made, and from which the prayers
of millions of souls are now ansmg to the

according to the sun's declination on my portion

of the moon. Highly pleased with my masonic
achievements. Thanks to my knowledge of
chemistry, J was likewise enabled to Supply
 delicious, that I' do not trouble myself with
cooking that which I consider Nature has suffi-
,ciently cooked. The climate is now tropical.
When I arrived here it was the moon's morn-

-- .. -- - o---v - _____ ___ v ____ ---- ------

ology of the moon. I saw that every lunar

day comprised a summer, and that every lunar
night embraced a winter. I saw that the
moon's morning was a spring time, its mid-day

the protracted heat, 1 saw that the vegetation

is goaded on to prodigious feats in growth.
The sun-stimulus is, moreover, powerfully
seconded by the amazing force of the lunar
~~~;l1n~? n4-4-_nn4-!n~ Qn~n lnn .. nn T 4-l-.n .. ~l-.,j.
These blow continually towards the west,
owing to the rarefaction of the air caused by
the sun. Benign is their influence. They
moderated the climate by carrying away the
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--- ----------OJ 1 ----- ~

found that the migrations of the birds cor-

responded to the periods of night and day.
In the lunar evening they left for the other
hemisphere, to enjoy summer and daylight on

~eventh day. !i'or some <lays 1 have been

planning a circum-lunar journey. Ihaveresolved
to be the moon's Cook as well as its Columbus.
Besides, the approach of lunar night tells me that
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 A"I

former mysteries of classification are now so

unriddled, that it is' easy for me to arrange the
genera, species, orders, and sub-orders in a few
minutes. •
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- - ---- --- J - . - .L -- - - - -- - -"-

Fauna, Flora, and Geology. I also took notes

of the latitude and longitude, reckoning my
metropolis as the lunar Greenwich. I journey
by the poles, to study to better advantage the

1n IlVmg streams. What a strange SIght to

behold creatures as large as the mammoth and··
as tall as the giraffe pressing around me,
dancing their peculiar gambols, and nearly
lr;n;nno f'ho; .. aYY\o no... h ...af'h ...on =;f'h fl.o; ........'..10
maSSIve grandeur even tIle eye ot wonder IS
dazzled. Great caverns bespeckle the scene,
whose ruggedness is strangely toned down by
their deep mouths being overhung by luxuriant

it attired in its full array of beauty. Many

past poets, in their stunted pedantry, vaunted
of the fire kindled within them at the sight of
wild scenery, and viewed aught artificial as.

Clan Wltn weens, marsnes, Jungles, pralrlCs, ann

pathless forests in other portions. They con-
sidered not that Nature, untamed and left '~
itself, became a reprobate, and produced a
~l'In;011l~ m~!'It.;lmlt.;l'I.l VAO'Atfl.t.;on W'h;~h nllt....A.f1t>rl
 ret while 1 could not fail to see how the
hands and brains of man could adorn the moon's
beauties, comb down its asperities, and add
elegance to its majesty, Nature's rude and
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.,
the third day of its creation-a time when its
waters were glaciers, its valleys barren, its.
plains unpopulated, and its Fauna and Flora
still in the womb of Time. How little reason

the COIntortS ot a nalntal:>1e worla.

To-day I beheld for the first time a lunar
autumn. The oppressive heat is moderating.
The leaves are becoming tinged with all the
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44 THF. TWF.'N'TV-N'T'N'TH ~F.'N'TTTR.V_

aemzens or tne wooa. are nere to enJoy tne

bountiful harvest.
. Tenth day. The Sull, after its unclouded
journey of a fortnight in the moon's firmament,
ll't noW" l'tAHlnO" HoW" T sun t.n AVSI.NA t:hA lonO'

Night overtook me about 3 P.M. earthly

time, and after such a long day I 'keenly felt
the change. Darkness brooded over my soul
as well as my senses. Yet Nature, with its

lltJUV tJll, wuue Ule uu.ruru uureuul:! uegull W

play its part in the concert of nightly pheno-

mena with a brilliancy I had never seen
equalled on earth. The sky apPE:lared like a
hUQ"e kaleidoscone of varie!!ated fire.
world. The steadfast, immovable features of
the face of mother earth contrasted strongly
with the ever-varying atmospheric toilette with
which she was draped. So quickly were her
, ,. ,

gauze. N ow she was mufiled up in coarse

nimbus doublets, anon bedight with fleecy
trimmings. N ow her face was hel~eted in
mists, anon she threw off her cloudy vizor.

continents, and to the tops of the highest

peaks. It is the ocean of man and all other
air-fish. It is the exchequer to which the sun
lends heat and light, and enjoys the usury of
__ .ll _ _ .L! __ __L _ _ L! _~_ __..l ..l!~ _ _ .L! __
teetotum, spinning eternally in the firmament.
Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and America
are all in their succession presented to my
-VIeW. Their familiar outlines have a strange

full earth. In nearly its full glory I beheld

it this evening. Its atmosphere so beautifully
irradiated the stars within its fringe, that the
earth appeared like a huge sun, surrounded

tiaras and aigrettes of diamonds, rubies, pearls,

and opals, was infinitely more bright. Had I
been a Hume, a Paine, or a Hegel, I would
nave been so flooded with awe, that I would
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 A'7

.admiration, my mind drifted into a maze of sad

musings. I mourned that so glorious a globe
had so sad a history. Oh, what a fermentation
of infamous passions had occurred on the sur-
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relatively only a syllable in the volume of

eternity,-the moon's lantern, and a mere atom
in that solar system, which forms l?ut a drop in
the ocean of infinity!

eyes tne worm IS OUt tne sepUlcnre or a mnen

race. It is the cage of the contentious, feather-
less bipeds. Enviously I survey Jupiter, Mars,
Venus,· and the other planets, whose Adams
+5)Qt.",rl nnt. fnl'hinn",n fl'llihL Hn(J in whi~h thp.
48 TH}<~ TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY•

. alimospller~ or my lillougnlis IS l11umlnalieU!

From the very ashes of the world's sinful
history, behold how Divine grace has blazed
forth our great millennium! The reign of
rAlio-1on iR now lJniVl'~rRnL Art'R ~ornlln{)nia hal'!

from millions of plants, and embroidered by

horticulture with millions of flowers. A million
.marvellous agencies once unknown are now its
arms and hands. Peace and plenty go hand

U.l~ llVt. o:mC'pL.n:;o, !.Jut. OWV.lUO UllU. U.U~~t::l.l·O, I.;:>

knit by the cords of Christian unity into

one great commonwealth. What Philip II. of
Spain said of Belgium, I might say of the world,
-" This is one 2Teat town." Its every road is
 AO

1; with trembling hands, adjusted my instru-

ments, feeling that the doings of the subsequent
few seconds might be emblazoned for ever in
the volume of human annals. Scarcely had I
_~...4-~..1 ~T? ~T?~n •• ~~~ +h~ +... ~ n+~_n T?Oh~~ T n~_

J 0

of discoveries-discoveries which so flooded my

tel~scope and inundated my vision, that I was
surfeited with my success. I was annoyed that \
into my eyes should be deluged such a moIio-

nOla, tnat~ reqmre to snut mysen up m my

balloon during sleep. Still studying the won-

drous phenomena of a lunar night.
 CHAPTER III.
A JOURNEY ROUND THE MOON.

whole day I have been locked up in the balloon,

and have supplied myself with heat by means
of the electric engines.
Thirteenth day. So ma1estically. did the

farewell with the world, only to bid all hail to

the glorious sun. Welcome was the change
after my long imprisonment in the cold cell of
night.
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~ L_~ ___ ..l .L'L. _ ____ L _ _ _ .~L~ _____ f! 11 __
 My enthusiasm in my work swells now that
I am upon that side of the moon hitherto con-
cealed from human eye. In my trans-aerial
travels I am, for the first time, out of sight of

.I.a.lIll0.1. .o'{;;i"', QI\.J.l.VO.o YY.lJ..1,\J.1...I. .J.J.~J QCiJ..I.a.1. O"'OVU .o'p0U

in three hours. Its bosom is adorned with a

great many islets, on some of which I landed.
The scenery reminds me of my sea-clad mother-
world.

cave of 1Eolus,-siroccos, whirlwinds, and tor-

nadoes. In this world the language of nature
speaks with dulcet softness. Its voice assumes
no deafening emphasis like thunder, nor
, ,1
 - -
a speck in the zenith. The sight whelmed me
with surprise. Wonder-struck, my eyes for
the nonce were untrustworthy; my judgment
almost disclaimed their evidence; I thought it
- - -

lllUt!l Ulllll;tllil t!t)~-U:II U~ \;l:I.l\;LUI:I.II~Ulli:!, .L 1:1.11 ItJllg-lill

saw it was the moon's moon. I found that this.

microcosm revolved round its own axis in so short
a time as eighteen hours, and that its superficies
was eaual to the Iceland Deninsula. Its Dosi-

world, it continually hid itself' from its mistress-

planet behind the cover of Cynthia. From its
jagged, naked, and rugged aspect, I knew it
had no atmosphere.
, ..
mmd's atmosphere.
Sixteenth day. On and- on I proceed, trans-
acting sixty seconds' work every minute.
When the machinery of mind and body is

"
:was not sealed up like the others I had
inspected in the moon. Having anchored my
aerial craft, I, to defeat emergencies, armed
myself with wings, an elec~ic lamp, and my

reacnea a cnamoer larger tnan tne parnament-

hall, which was literally floored, walled, and
roofed with a' mosaic of precious stones. Just
while venting my admiration of the millions
of l'p.flp.p.t.ionR wit.h whip.h t.hp. hrillismtR on an
Ii.! THF. TWF.N"I'1"-N'lNTH f!F.NTTTRV.

~ was KnoCKea. a.own ana. lll1mersea In a.arK-

ness. I lay until the noise subsided, and then
stealthily crawled out of this huge gallery into-
s recess. On lighting my lamp, what was my
norrol" t.o -finn t.nSlt. t.np. fOl"~p.-Rl1nnlv of mv

stupefying influence left, and the stings of pain

roused me to cling to hope. I called on my
mind to find a means of rescue. That my
abstractions might be unimpeded, I extinguished
- .

Y <;JJ."J UJ.VVU UVll. .£111 J.<;JllO IIll ~ J lUUP",U u.p, GllU

cried out, "I am saved!" Reluming my lamp,

I, with almost maniacal fury, sprung down a
huge gallery in search of lower depths, for
there I knew I would find heat with which I
task would have been futile or fatal. Happily,
by dint of great gymnastic feats, in which I
took some leaps downwards of 100 feet, I
reached a spot in which I found heat sufficient
,.. ... p, • .,. • ~

afterwards arrived at the lips of the crater.

Need I say that, when I again saw the light of
the sun, I felt I was completely insolvent in
heavenly gratitude?

the first I thought it the Tycho of this hemi-

sphere, but I soon saw that it was the highest
mountain in the moon. Seven miles in height,
the ascent cost me much difficulty. With my
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fiR THF. TWF.NTV-NTN'TH r.F.NTTTRV_

unlIKe the other hemIsphere, witn ItS peaK-

spattered surface, the country here comprised
corduroy ranges, with luxuriant intervening
valleys. To the south I joyed to behold a
moO<lf: '''''''''<In rrhA l<lnill'l(>!)nA <llf:,...rrAf:'hA~ lnl'lnl~AiJ

tread. Every stream will yet be a Tiber, every

hall a Tempe, and every hill a ParIiassus.
Seventeenth day. Toiling at my lonely
avocations. A charm lies in solitude. It is

prOUUClJS 01 Hie IDlnu. .lne grana. JeWelS 01

thought which will sparkle for ever in the
coronet of literature have come from the re-
cesses of the closet. The researches of Newton,
thp- Rtp,am-p,nmnp, of Watt_ thp- 100m of.Ta~ollard_
the fields of human annals, were generated in
the presence of God alone. Whim alone
before Him, the steel of heavenly inspiration
most frequently strikes sparks from our flinty
__ •• 1_

----J ---- ---- ------- ----- -~ - - --- ---~-, --

which, through the wings of holiness, we may

invade the regions of religious sublimity I Is not
the closet the precinct nearest heaven ?-and is
it not when alone we have most fellowship

opemng ot the worHl's hrSt great raIlway. A

thousand years this same month another good
seed was sown in the first voyage across the
Atlantic by a, steam-ship. Then were cradled
fl... lM'. .",f .."l. ..Tl'lO" h.,.. nrl.i"l. .fl.o n",o;l1~;"O"
on the other rags of other colours and shape also
fluttered 'on poles; and which rags and poles, if
by chance they found their way to the wrong
side of those supposed lines, the owners of these

...
railway' ages. Religion was splintered with
disruptions; politics sawall its senates, houses
divided against themselves. Mother earth saw
all her children, nations armed to the teeth to

pO~lsms. 1. ne leW repuDllcs wmcn eXlstea,

though commendable attempts after a: 'good

form of govemment, were but flimsy stucco
draughts of the golden archetype. They were
onlv ~onntp.rfp.it rAnnhlimmR. who ARl'Ul.VAcl in
 .. ..._ ....,.."... .............,,. __ ............._ ......... ,....... , __ ..... t:f'lI.

by religion, and trusting its existence, not to·

human wisdom or human laws, but to Divine
precepts and Divine guidance.
Eighteenth day. Passed a region which
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---- --_.--. - ----- --- --------- -·---0-----] ------

eighteen caves more gigantic than that of

Kentucky. Fondly could I h\1ve dwelt upon.
numberless beauties unfolded to my eyes, but
I was forbidden by duty.

machinery.
As a spiritual recreation I donned my
microscopic spectacles, and read a few of my
microscopic books.
T"rD"n.T'Ito4-;n.+h rlnTl" 1=1" O-U-L\. O~'T£).t1 Q+ +1,.0 arn"l(l+I"\~
.AO THF. TWF.1\1'TV_NTlITTH r.F.lITTTTRV.

In wIllcnl am at present, tne neat 18 oecommg

intense.
Arrived at another sea at mid-day, whose
breadth is so great that I am still out of the

-
precipitated into the sea.
At mid-day I ~beheld, for the first time, a
rainbow in this world. My soul swelled with
emotion as I viewed in this strange land God's

suuueruy urencueu uy U greUlJ uouy 01 water.

Looking over the bulwarks of my craft, my
wonder was magnified when I saw a huge
whale below squirting such volumes of brine,
that it reminded me of a water-Rnout. T Roon
gambols and the play of their blow-hole water
engines. The leviathan, mused I, which poets,
peering through their imagination-lenses, cari-
catured, n~t described, IS here, for the first

\;;VU iJ,llU lliJ,UUVI,;1\. iJ,;:I .liJ,.l-~-~ Ui::i UV11'll.lHi::i. -L ;:IUW

that here sea as well. as l~nd animals were

huger than in my mother-world. I almost
thought that nature had told me that the size
of animals and nlants were in the inverse

strength. Travelling nearly a thousand kilo-

metres daily under a broiling sun, and sculpturing-
and eleographing every inch of territory I over-
pass, taking specimens of interesting geological
..
panacea is the Bible! Stationed on this un-
earthly world with it as my guide-book, I feel
that though tens of thousands of leagues from
my friends I am not unfriended. Within the pre-
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~~-··~o ..
~~~ ~.~ ~ ~.~.J ~.~-~.~~ ~~-. ~ .. ~

refreshment to every wearied pilgrim.

Twenty-second day. The sun is now setting,
and autumn therefore burdens the earth with
its fruits. I am at present making a forced

advance my whole time is consecrated~: I occupy

-the minimum of time in sleep and the maximum
in intellectual labour. Explorations abroad
·consume twelve hours daily, but I always
_~n~_~~ .j.~_~ h~.,_n _.h!~l. T ..:l~_~.j.~ .j.~ .j.h_ l~L_
 ... __ ..._ ..... __ ... __________ __ ~ ___ nn

of this terranean peach. It is the eastern hemi-

sphere of the junior world. I grieve, therefore,
to see that nature is now divesting itself of its
rich day co~tumes, preparatory to donning the
" .,

vanished only to make way for nocturnal won-

ders. Night had scarcely shut the windows of
day wh~n itdisembogued into my mind a stream
of surprises. Four comets adorned the sky;

meteoric and cometic revolutions, the night

firmament here was, therefore, richer in astro-
nomical interest.
Despite these spectacles, my soul is invested
-.!'.L1- __ ..1 ___ _
in a skyscape !
In daytime we are shortsighted, and behold
only the clouds of our own earth, and at the far-
thestournearest luminary. Butwith darkness we
.t:~;J .j.l..~.j. ~ .. ~~1,!~~ l..~~ l..~~~ ~ _~!1 _l..:~l. h~" h:.:I

<:> " J

the venerable head of Mount ';rycho. The face

of the country I traversed to-day is covered
with hill-pustules, cratoc pock-pIts, and rocky
wrinkles. I beheld thousands of craters and

the J:;outh YOle. In the mormng I was In tne

regions of darkness and grim winter; at mid-
day I arrived at the territories of twilight and
spring; and in the evening I bivouacked in the
l"£>mnn" nf "nnQh;n£> nntl QllTnTnAl" ~"P.h $I. Rln-
tween the realms of summer and winter.
Dunng the day I passed numerous forests of
those strange coloured trees which so amazed
me when I arrived in Luna. The sun-rise and
_~_lA _!~~ ~ _ _ ~~l.~ _ _ ~T -!~~ ~~ ~l.~!_ ~l~!~ .. A~

~J

Yet though under the genial rays of my

mother world and the sun, and though roam-
ing amid nature's plentitude, I felt world-sick
all day.

thanksg'lvmg ana. prayer. lJevotlOn 1 VIew

as the great crane for the unloading of misery
from our souls.
In the afternoon my devotions received an
.. rJvonf;t;nll" "nloJY\nlf.U" nn .. ""nnnt nf t.ho o"l,n"o
was that the two spheres were not crushed to
pieces. For two hours the moon was veiled
in darkness, and the stars burst out in their
full effulgence, as if to be witnesses of the ren-
_ _ _ .1.. _ _ _ _ P .11 __ , ,1 -"T , • J , '"

to chirp, and flew to their nests. The sheep

ceased to bleat, and hid under trees. For
the time all the denizens of' moonland
seemed to covet repose. Only the winds of

rature increased, the wind fell, and the animal

creation resumed their pleasures.
Twenty-seventh day. An unfortunate acci-
dent befell me this forenoon. One of the
~.~1_~~ ~.c _ •• ~"......:~~ l.._~lT~ ~~..:1 1:1T~ ~ ~:-~~~
This misfortune distresses me deeply, for what
could prove a sadder disaster than the loss of
time'? Without spending a moment, however,
in ineffectual repinings, I commenced to mend

InellUIS, WHO Have IIlUIS"LereU arOUllU Illy Iallell

banners with a fidelity and affection which

bid me take consolation.
Twenty-ninth day. My hopes alternately
tower and cower. Anxietv now ma~erfl,teR mv

crushing than the loss of these precious hours-

hours that, despite the ceaseless sw.eating of my
brow, and the overburdened beating of my
heart, scarce leave a single fruit? Anon ex-
periments without result, and hopes without
prospect of fruition, form the sad summary of
to-day's history.
Tho sun is setting, the autumn IS approach-

~1l 11ly l:II:I.UJH:jl:ll:l ~ 1ll:l.VIJ lllUl:IlJU Ull ~1l1J VI:I.~~'y

of wealth. Compared to me, Solomon and

Crresus were beggars. Their riches could be
compassed within the areas of a kingdom,
but for me. I am the owner of a whole world.

of acres, I can only eat a handful of fruit. If

riches were not a phantom and an empty
name, how is it that, though I be the proprietor
of the moon, I am at present helpless, and
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in receipt of heavenly bounties, defray thy
most fervent thanks as -an acknowledgment!
Through the goodness of Providence, this day's
. mental labour has emancipated me from weeks
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----- -- --- .. -- 0-------- .. ----- .. ----- c---

from my heart-springs, I stored my aerial
chariot with dynamical force, and bade a
joyful farewell to my mammoth camp of
animals, that had made me and my balloon

Naomi. Singing gaily, they fiuttered around

my vehicle, and accompanied me until I halted
in the evening, .
Thirty-second day. I have to-day scarce
.:_............. _ _,.....,.1.: ... _ ..l,.,n+ T .,,,....,. n cu",l;.f.n,......-r hl1TYl~n
No sooner does winter seem banished, than
we are in the depths of harvest. Every hour
seems to tinge the crops more deeply with the
attributes of age.
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may refund thee its richest blessings.

Thirty-fourth day. Having arrived this fore-
noon at Mount Tycho, I forthwith ascended to
its summit, and saw the glorious spectacle it

rugous, nstUlous, punctqrea. tract 01 country

could be found in the whole solar system.
Having thereafter made my way to the tongue:
jutting out in the crater's mouth, and having
A.,,~p.nt1p.t1 t,n it!1/. tnn T 'UTa!1/. a"tnnl!1/.1u>tl tn -hntl an
perspective of peaks the hoop. The crater, as
eye of the great ring, formed a wonderful object.
So symmetrically were its, basaltic terraces
sculptured, that it might have formed an
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Fauna and Flora so interesting, that I resolved

to prolong my stay in this district. I write
little because I have worked much.
Thirty-fifth to fortieth day. Spell-bound by

whose names shall erewhile be household

words.
Forty-first day. To-day I discovered, ·on a
lake here, the largest herb I ever beheld; like
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floral boat, with a diameter of five metres,
with petals and sepals as large as the sails of a
skiff, with a pistil like a mast, with an ovary
like a small cabin, and with a host of stamina-
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- - - -J .- - - - - - - ----J - -0 0

facts,-facts which might astonish men, but for

me I am so surfeited with wonders, that I am
well-nigh callous to the sensations of surprise.
In the woods, birds, those choristers of God's

soul as much as did the ravens the hungering

Elijah.
Forty-third day. Having now wandered
from the moon's Dan to its Beersheba, I to-
.1_~_ 1';~11 +~ ~~_ 1.. ___ l.."_,,, AnT nhn11 hI> n~
fortnight, it will enable me to behold the book
of nature opened in some pages to which men
are total strangers.
Though anxious to reach my home ere night,
.. .

Phrebus were in the stables of Thetis when

I was still fifty kilometres from home. Obsti-
nate determination hurrying me on, heedless
of precautions. mv machine was suddenly

their wonted precipitate Virulence, the shock was

such .as to render my air-vessel a shipwreck
and me a sufferer. When I emerged from the
gloom of insensibility, I found myself prostrate
J1 . " " , J Jl _ , _ _ LL ___ _
 011, miserable wretch, mused I, to be thus
wrecked at a place of whose bearings I am
.ignorant, and at a time when it is a fortnight
till the dawn of the moon's day! But for the
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- - - - .. --- .--------. - - - - O - - - J ---------.---- - - - - - -

ceived the injury, I could not have groaned more

sorrowfully under the load of distress. I saw
before me a wide and bleak desert of sorrow
and anguish. I was now a captive, with a

Un tho ove of completing my circuit of the

moon, and about to project my world-bound
voyage-a voyage in which I would have had
the glory of being laden with the richest stores
are only the footballs of destiny. Mustering,
the broken elements of my courage, I checked,
the doleful current of my thoughts, panoplied
my feelings with religious consolation, and
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----- - - - - - - - - 0 ----- ------0 -~-----------

Forty-fifth day. After weird hallucinations,

I rose from my couch. The weaker the body
the stronger are the longings for kindred and
home. For me such desires were t}lC more

by concoctmg plans to reach my lunar manSIOn.

Seeking for my instruments to allow ~e to
strike the proper direction, I found, to my
unutterable mortification, they were all broken.
·,.,,,,'

of vexation; they stimulated me to rise and

work as best I could with my fractured arm.
After bundling together the most essential
articles of travel, I harnessed the animal by
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of a neighbouring mo.mtain. Uncomfortable

was the ride, for the cold was already intense.
But this inconvenience was but a breath com-
pared to the vexation tempest which burst

rugosities of the country. Like a Hagar I

journeyed on, vainly seeking for what I longed.
The frost and the dreary prospect were alike
forgotten. All minor afHictions were swallowed
•• _ h __ J.h~ :.l~_ J.1._J. :.c T ____1._.l __ J. _ _ 1 __ ~
 .. T""TT~'T~'P ~_Y""'''T"\o. ..... y,.,.., ... r _ _ ...,. ,.",.,.

surprised at this, but that I am now surprised

at nothing. I learned, moreover, that while
diurnal animals here wandered from hemisphere
to hemisphere, according as Phoobus kissed the
____1.. __1__ .1'"01.._1.. _ __ L1.. __ L1.. __ L1.. ___ ______ 1 __

illumination of my hopes. With augmented

courage I proceeded onwards. Pacing over the
crisp leaf-strewn ground, and through the frosty
. air, Borealis gleams of joy shot across the

formed. thIs sImple work, 1 belleld. tlle llundreds

of thousands· of the denizens of the field en
camping before my temporary habitation.
 CHAPTER IV.
WINTER IN THE MOON.

Tue nOIse ~ maae aWOKC tnose nearest, ana, tue

sound spreading centrifug~lly, new hosts of
animals jumped to their feet, shook their tails,
snorted pleasure, and gambolled in their de-
110'ht. rrhp. R10'nn.l for riRlnO'. thp.rp.forp.. whip.h

fascinations, which soothed the soul as they

pleased thc eye. My retina, too, now so long
accustomed to the darkness, could distinguish
the scenery around as vividly as if it had
As hours flew on and the cold increased, sadness
and sickness cruelly scourged my heart. With
a broken arm, and a well-nigh broken heart,
what has kept me in the land of the living

---- - - - -- - r - -.- -- - -- - - 0 I

the world is reigning as its agent. Thanks

be to Heaven for earth - shine. Its genial
radiance silverizes the sc~nery, and lights up
with a smile the features of the landscape.

ShIppers. lJoes not the dome 01 mgm, WItll

its stellar la~ps, its candelabra constellations,
its borealis and zodi,acal illuminations, its
cometic and meteoric fireworks, proclaim the
'DTAn(lrrmQ "tIT£\,.1-rll<>n ..'h;n £\f t'h", AhnlO'htv <>"I"(>'h;_
RO TH"~ TWF.NTY-NTNTH r.F.NTTTRY •

aner nour meanwnl1e nan passen,

.t10W·

bringing to me a stronger frost and deeper per-

plexities. 'Vhere I now was I knew not, and
had no means of accurately knowing. My
1l11nn 'Wn!'! +l1l" !'!l'.AnA of !'I. 'riot. of l'.On;A{\t.ll'rA!'!

- -
again I feared my success was becoming more
uncertain. At length, just when about to
desist from further scarch for this day, my
joy's temperature was raised to its boiling

~LtltlU UIUllg-. J.uy llllllU wu/!! tllULtlU WUil LUtl

joy of a Eureka sweeter than that of the

philosopher of old. My Eureka was life, my
deliverance was from tho threatening jaws of
death. The oxuberance of mv exultation was
 ~1

nor bridle nor saddle, and WhICh iormed my

body-guard, constituted a procession in vast-
ness ~nd beauty such as the world itself could
not have displayed.
T <l/V\... "''''Ol'>horl h"....... '" Tho 1,.100 lr a..... n"+n,..l,,.

trees were skeletons. The plants had re-

treated . within the barricades of the frost.
The choristers had migrated. Vegetation
was asleep, and blanketed by ice. The

~ CUUlU lSCW·CelY uave expeclieu nuw a urUlie.

When I dismounted it followed me, and it would

verily have entered my chamber, had the door
been large enough.
Now at home. but invested bv such hvemal
on

the week's desert in which the weary soul is

rested and refreshed. How bountiful are" its
blessings!
It is now forty-seven days since I arrived
.1 • .1

for it is not yet new moon. It may be long,

therefore, ere I am delivered from my snare.
Oh, me! I feel the torments of a famine-a
famine, not of food or water, put Christian

mourn over my captivity, when Uhrist was

nearly "as long in the dreary wilderness as I
have been in this beautiful world, and when
His was a period of unmitigated misery and
 J -J 0 - - ---J ~- --~- --'-1 -----

made a compilation of my investigations.

On account of the long night, I am becoming
quite nocturnal in my proclivities; and in con-
sequence of my exposure tothe cold, I am getting

How mIghty are man's powers ot adaptatIOn!

Custom, conj~ined to scientific appliances, could
make him live in a freezing mixture or swim
in molten metal.

~ v

sufficiently understand the neighing of Rocket

to discern his meaning when he wishes refresh-
ment, or when on his back he desires to inform
me the roads which are of easiest access. On
the brook.
When all is ready for the sickle of research,
it is hard to think that, through the flux of
my misfortunes, I have lost the rich harvest
, ,.

mother-earth for deliverance, I this forenoon

resolved to make a cannon whose b1i.llet I could
fill with bulletins. Seeing the position ~f our"
world amid the changes of the lunar heavens

loader on a suitable carriage. To carry out my

plans, I mounted my steed, braved the bitter
cold, and rode to the ruins of my ballo.on, to sup-
ply myself with my engine's shattered remains,
=_L __ L T ___
__ 1.. __ 1 ___
L_ =L _ 1 ____ .1 =__ 1.. __ _
_ . _____
.around the moon. Having loaded my escort
;nth the lumber, and having returned home, I
assorted my luggage in my court, and com-
menced to repair the electric engines. Framed
.r..f o,.:iOTnn,.,,+~ C'fnrl' n 11.n.Trct +J.. .... "'I:? J..nrl J..n,.,.....,.';lTT o'nQ+o;T\atl

I set out at the head of an expedition of eighty

mammoth animals, and returned With a large
.store of lunar metals. Doubt, like a jealous
sentinel, blocks the path to every great goal, and

"tne worJ:( 01 tne nay oy cnoosmg as a sue lOr 1Jlle

,great work the side of a large rock behind my
home, because the rock itself would suit as a
pedestal for the ordnance, and the soil around
"UT1\111..:1 Q11;t f'n-r thp nn-rnn!:lp!:l of TTlo111f1inlJ'.
86 TIlE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

a month's surgical piddling and diddling, dab--

bling and dawdling. Blessed with the use of
my two arms, I at once commenced my task.
Having replenished my electrical engines with

for the cannon. I then modified the function

of my engines into a fusion apparatus, and
gradually melted. into a homogeneous mass
the world's and the moon's metals previously
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.. -- -----. - - - - - --.- ----- --- --_. -'---J-

at length saw the capacious womb of the mould
filled. By convection tubes I next subtracted
the enormous heat from the fused mass. This
great force I changed into electricity, and
gun was ugly in shape, because I had sacrificed
ornamentation for facility of facture. I next
prepared a carriage for the culverin-a work
which saw strength united to clumsiness, and

... J

Fifty-first day. After receiving due succour

from sleep, I resumed my work. There was
the ordnance in its mould, but such was its
massiveness that I shuddered before the idea

.tl.eSOlutlon torcmg me torwaras III spIte ot

the rasping and friction of such doubts, I raised
a great platform, on which I erected powerful
extempore machines, pulleys, screws, and levers,
fn -1-'0";1;4-0-1-",, fh"" orl;""fTnonf n-l-' fl."" Tn; O'l.+."1:7 C'l'I.>:t._
00

Had Samson himself been here, his physical

strength would have been outwitted. The
gates of Gaza must have been toys to my
astronomical mortar: the pulling down of the
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-- ------J ------- - r - - --- ----- -J -----

of my scientific strategies, my machinery, and

my animals, I had little doubt but I would
escalade the summit. of my purpose. My
devices were not unworthy of their author.

occupied so much ~dged time, that 1

was forced to postpone the traction till to-
morrow.
Fifty-second day. This morning I mar-
nh.." 11_,1 +].,.n. o{)n l,. ........ __ L·U',.....,1 .,., ....... ':YV\n la ..",...;1 ....,.""l7"l'\rl
 QQ

the order to move. In a moment the brawny

muscles of my cavalcade were on the stretch;
ihe cordage creaked and tightened as if itself
eomposed of vital thews and sinews. Another
_______ _ .I'l'_-'- _ _ _ _ _ _ .l_ 'L _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 'L1 _____ 1-

ihe great cast gradually delivered from its

, clayey womb. Up, up, it went, in all its vast
mas8iveness, inspiring me with delight mingled
with terror, lest I should suffer the afflictions of

vously 1 caught the occasion by its forelock,

reined my steeds, stopped my engines, and,
springing up, levered my howitzer into its
socket. Oh, memorable moment ! Your success
gO Till<' TWr.'.NTV_ NTNTIl C'F.NTTTRV.

oranance With Its tonnes 01 metals cOUla never

have reached the realms of reality. How the
majesty of mind reigns over the dominions of
matter! Am I not a conqueror to-day, and
rln tlH~ f\; ...f\l1Tn",t<lnf\OQ nn+ I:lllnnhr Tnt> ~tl-o <I.

entitled to be, for they were in the focus of

butchery, in which .hell alone had joy, while
I was in the midst of innocent achievements
and unalloyed successes, which the very angels

.nUll UUllllums upun l'ne eann. ~l' was a puzzm

to me what kind of apparatus I should use as
the envelopes of my missives. If I made
them of iron, it would be to wage war against
mankind-it would be to bombard the world
 WINTER TN THF. MOON.

nana, u ~ maae tne naus 01 SOH materIal,

they would not carry. After a keen wrestling-
of ideas before the judgment-seat of my mind,
I at length invented a species of bomb which
T hp.llp.vp.(I wonl(l p.xnlo(lp' whp.n it nlw~nRRP(l on
 CHAPTER V.
THE MOON BEGINS TO BE POPULATED.

- ~ --~ ~- - -- -T -- - -01 --J r- - . - ------

gerous to the world below despite my pre-
cautionary adaptations. I next filled these
iron bags with duplicate oleographic sketches
of sights in moonland, leaves of those trees

that all the OomOs WOUlU oe ruscoverea, ~ sent

in each a message to the world's David, in
which I, the moon's Joab, exhorted him-to
,come hither and share the honour of gaining
his guard of the danger of firing bombs wide
of the moon, seeing that thereby they might
come into collision with this body, and thus be
wrecked. Studying as I did the particulars as,

iJo llVa. Y J Ull.l VJ. UVu..u. J 1:1 W va." a.UU J.llVll "u,J. "Vll.,

After storming some further quandaries, I deftly

loaded my ordnance. ,Adjusting my aim, I"
With a prayer on my lips and anxiety on my
soul. touched the electro - trie-e-er. A loud

exhausted my ammunition and my strength.

No marvel I was a prey to fatigue, for a
Briareus with a hundred hands could not have
performed a more wondrous day's work. But
T ,. , .
devoutly, and therefore happily. Ere this the
world knows my mishap. Perchance my
deliverance is already planned.
Fifty-fifth day. Enlarging the scope of my
. . . ...

.l.ll.G] lIJ.Lt:i DVV.1..1v.l U'Ci '{;iJ..lll\:i~lIa.1.ll'Ci\..L W..L"'J...L IJIU:; UVa,U.\I..LCO

and b?unties of daylight and vernal pleasures.

Having equipped myself with my wings, and
having bottled into their force-depository
28,300 units of electricity, to suit me alike as

meantime serenaded us from the skies, so that

we advanced to the strains of our winged
band. In two hours I rode 300 miles. What
splendid running! It exceeded the fabled
,. , ,., ,. , ,
J 1 _,. "
the scene of such horsemanship. Yet the
imposing character of the light-footed proces-
sion which I headed formed the most remark-
able feature of my excursion. Around me, for
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antelopes, while the smaller creatures scoured

along by dint of such insect-like leaps as made
their motions cause only a mazy daub upon
my retina. The flowing manes, tossing tails,

we were skIrtmg mountams, anon pIercmg

through deep defiles,-now we wore dashing
along downs and over dales, and anon, goat-like,
leaping over honid ravines and crevassos,-
!)fl THR TWR~TV-NTNTlT CRNTTTRV.

WIngs, ana unaer tne Innuence or tne neat .L

tapped from them, I was soon asleep.
Fifty-sixth day. Remounted Rocket as soon
as I arose, and pursued my sunwards flight.
Tn t,h", nft,Al'nOOn T nl'l'lvAo nt thA n-011t.1Al'R.

o,l'chestra of winged minstrels, when suddenly

I was deserted by the whole array. Great as
was their fealty, they refused to invade the
territories of light, towards which I was

ur lItHI LllUUlISI:I.J1U1:S UJ. ilUUJ.1:S, til'" ~ilUJ.-illUg- Ul li11~

clear air by the flapping of thousands of wings,

and their gradual cadence into silence, struck
me with amazement. I, on my Rocket, before
the centre of a world of animation. now SUl"-
 PftY'Y_ . . . . _ _ ...T _ _ _ ......... ,... ... -. _.... _ _ _ ........... .................. n,.,.

even aloI!g his longest and swiftest lunar beat,

by the equator, posts only at the pace of ten
miles per hour, I saw that tq.e lunar animals
had -no difficulty either in keeping apace or
_1.._~..1 ~.c 1..!~ _1.._..!~.j. l\K~ _______ !_.j.~_ 1..~ __

.L

bountiful prOVISIOn for the hibernal animals.

I also noted that the little water evaporated by
the atmosphere did not return to the earth as
rain, but was condensed by the mountains and

western horIzon, there Ourst out ot tne east

the sun. With an emotion-crowded heart I
welcomed the infant rays of the great metro-
polis of our solar system, our courtly gyrations
"'I'"nntl nr'h~,,'h tl;"r":m,,.,. "" t.'h.,. T\l.,.~"~nO' vil';RR1_
QQ

evemng I pierced further east, so that 1 am

now a guest of hospitable spring. The
concerts of the sylvaIL choristers are com-
mencmg. The sheep and lambs are frolicking
;~ 4-h~ .t!~1;J.. "{T~~~4-~4-;~~;~ ~~~~;~~ h~_ ~n_;J

IS to the world the "new moon," I made

signals of distress. At the close of the day I
fixed upon a tree as my bed-room, and one of
its leaves for my IlRmmock. At present I am

proceeded sLoWly to glean more researcnes.

My baggage of specimens is this evening so
bulky that it loads the backs of forty of my
cavalcade. To-night I am deeply impressed
=~f1-. f1-.o ""'I' ...",+;n1";1 nf TYnT rllli O"Ant'''' PA..."AVA..._
 nn

Spying the world this morning, I, with

a heart turgid with delight, beheld on the
verge of America a fiery representation of
an anchor. To me, a Hagar in the moon's
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--.. - - - - -'-J ----- ----- ------- - -C----·----- --J

memory and note-book with fresh acquisitions .

. While keeping apace of the sun's vanguard
beams I moved southwards, so that in the after-
noon I was enabled to study the leopard-spot

streams.
Fifty-eighth day. Reached home at mid-day.
Having left it three days ago mantled with
the desolation of winter, I now returned to
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.. ,,"

my palace in two hours.

Before bed-time I despatched another senes
of bulletins to the world,. mentioning I };tad
beheld the fiery anchor.
-r;,e(tj • J1 , ,.... . , ,1·

thousands of my zoological army crowding

around some object. My curiosity was at once
aflame. Like Moses when he saw the burning
bush, I felt I could say, "I will turn aside and

I found I could not burst through the swarm-

ing throng. Having left my electrical wings
at home, I had no other alternative than to
vault to the top of one of these mammoth
1-.~~~"-~ ~_..:J _. _____ "-1.._ 1.. __1___ I! _ ____ L 1.. __ L
-observatory ascertained the cause of such
strange effects. My feelings were dumbfounded
-on seeing a newspaper on the grass, and the
animals playing over it in a way somewhat

the mammoth amimals. Seizing the wel-

come message, I hastily thrust it into my
pocket. My head now reeled, partly with the
excitement of finding an earthly. newspaper in

tall ot one ot them, got on Its baCK, ana,

skipping over those of others, I at length got
astride .Rocket. Fighting my way to the
outskirts of my myrmidons of satellites, I gal-
lnT\atl +n <> +..£1£1 """;+'h <>11 TYl1<T f/,\w,o" fln,..'\z.'nO'
 11\0

these dumb creatures that there was something

unmoonly in this newspaper.
Having rid myself of these animals, and
.having gained a position of comparative seeu-
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J -------J .- ------ ------,-- ·---------0 --- - - -

of a human foot on his island, was not so over-
whelmed as I when I beheld an earthly news-
paper in this Fernandez in the firmament. ~t
was my ticket-of-leave from my lunar banish-

With a hundred eyes, to have read a hundred

different paragraphs simultaneously. I was
news-thirsty to greediness. It was dissonant to
my impatience that I had only a pair of eyes to
'I'YIQc!+O'" C!'" 'On,,,'h +''''".,.0 1'IJO"ITO'" 'hofA"'o ,.1;,.1 T ...",,,,1.

R·
 , 1'\0

liberators. It makes my heart bound with the

fulness of joy to see they are the honoured
names of S. Watt, A. Newton, and G. Cobbett.
Here, too, are the messages I sent to the world,
_,_ • J. r-'J1 T ·,1_'

V~~ ~~ __ v~~v_.~. w~~ _-v- J r-r~·' -~- .. -- O·

relieVed to find that the system I had invented

was remarkably though no~ entirely free from
danger. One bomb had fallen upon a house in
Edinburgh, and penetrated its roof, to the great

graph, and its current had soon swept its way

into the soul of every human being. Another
missive struck a balloon in Persia, and so
deranged its ma.chinery that it fluttered and
l'~11 .j.~ -,-1.~ _~_-'- ___ ~.j. _ _ _ _ .j.: _ _ _ l' :.j.~ __ ~~ _____~
electncal mesh, WIth Its bILlIons ot dIals at
billions of different localities, delivered the
cheering intelligence to mankind. In a few
minutes t~ousands, and in a few hours millions,
1.0..1 0-'--;,.,."...1 04- +h". " ....,..,.4- +n co4-". +h"';~ a 1......",,,+

while another damaged the ornamentation of a

steeple in New York. But the most interest-
ing of the twenty missives was that which hit
the Lyceum. Parliament was sitting at the

news was nasnea InstantlY over our glOoe s

net-work of wires, so that in a few minutes the
senate, and the stations of the acoustical tubes
in connexion with it, were beset with anxious
li>:t.Anp.r>:~ RnnArlH1:;vA ;ov tillArt t.hA hAR.rtR
 T~ M()()N R1UHNR T() RR P()PTTT.A'T'li'.n 1 ()fi

astounamg aa.ventures ana. mlsaa.ventures,

while they rejoiced that" like the spies of
Israel, I had proved the promised land of the
moon overflowed with milk and' honey.
Tn S'I.not.hAl' nS'l'Y"S'lO"l'"S'lnh of t.hA nan" ... T TlTa"

:those tints in the spectrum which had hitherto

been undiscovered. I likewise found numerous
treatises on other lunar subjects, all of which
were written with laudable discrimination and

IIllt:: UllllUWlljt::lllt::llL LUUL ISljlt::llLUllj Ul"IllUlllt::llLIS

were being formed to make several huge

cannon for the purpose of mundo-lunar travel-
ling, which it was resolved to station at equal
distances around the earth's tronical zone.
1 nil ",TT'~ ""'rn'To.Trn"lJ' 'To.TT'To.",.,TT I"1n"'TmTT"OV

attendants to seek for further traces of my

fellow-men. I soon found they were hounds,
keen in their power to scent any docume~t of
unmoonly origin. It was, therefore, but a

.L ..

prize than to lose time in reading this-issue, I

renewed the chase. So fortunate was I, that -
my hounds soon discovered a huge piece of
paper, prominently nailed on a prominent tree.

"S. WATT.
"A. NEWTON~
"G. COBBETT."
they :Bew on, betraying neither signs of weari-
ness nor dissatisfaction. Now we galloped
over glades, anon forced our way through·
tangled copsellJ,-now we were scouring through
, .. "I'll "I.

snorting, others were neighing,-some were

tossing about their malles and tails, others
pricking their ears, and all behaving in a
manner altogether unaccountable. I could not

tors. Pouring out my thanks to Heaven for

its merciful, nay, unmeasurable, bounties, I
rushed on towards my friends. As we ap-
proached each other, the frolics of my caval-
__ .l_ 1.. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ •• h~_~_.j. C!~~_ T ~~ .. 1;r
not unmmgled WIth vanIty, mvested me, when
thus espied for the first time in moonland in
my regal capacity as a lord over its brute
creation. Did ever king, thought I, head such
.... "'l-.l'" .,+",,,,1,, "'~ ,1;,1 "'..,."'~ +l..", l,.",,,+ l..",~"", n~

.. 01

an escort, while below them were also great

droves of quadrupeds, sextipeds, and multipeds.
In a few minutes their aerial car had de-
scep-ded at my feet. Almost inImediately it

DlocKea my way ere ~ cowa reacn tne arms or

my dear friends. But silence alone is seemly
where description is powerless.
Joining my friends in their balloon, we
thAn n~I'Anilpil vipunnO' unth lntpl"PRt thP AY-
mutual congratulations.
Overjoyed to be back to myoId policies in
such precious society, I, with pardonable pride,
showed my friends the work I had accom-

Wearied with the fatigue of so eventful a

day, but grateful for the bounties it had seen
us vouchsafed, we raised our Ebenezer and
retired to rest.
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CHAPTER VI.
I RETURN TO THE WORLD.

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magical rapidity. What was a solitary house
in the morning was the nucleus of a street at
mid-day. Our two engines at full pressure
felling trees and cutting them into shape, and

we presented thIS day as buIlders must ever

stand prominent in the picture-galleries of our
memory. Relieved from the heavy exactions
of an atmosphere and gravitation forces such
nCl +hA~n. t'A"",rl ~T'I +hn. l"no ... 'ftTn.,..lrl '""'.0. l00T'\.arJ
ingly wonderful saltatory and athletic feats
appeared as anomalous as to behold brain-
labourers and senators and savants like my
friends working as masons.
A "'+:nn~:":~ +l,.n J!~_~~~~_ _~ _.n_~ A:l~~~~~~.:

oJ J

preparing despatches, the terms of which were

thus :-" The inhabitants of the moon to the
inhabitants of the world.-Yesterday the
mission of deliv~rance to Diogenes :Milton was

thIS lJeautltUl ana lJountltullana. Hasten tne

framing of your monster cannon and rain down
upon the moon. showers of mankind."
Sixty-first day, Sabbath. To-day S. Watt,
A N purl-.em C+. nnhhAtt nnll T +hA ('Onl_
ing amid the details of lunar science, our joy
was awakened on observing a balloon in the-
distance, with a new detachment Of Cynthian
immigrants, consisting of Pliny Lesseps, Coper-
. .

and arduous labours and severe accident. My

answer, while couched in the warmest affection
of a husband and a father, was that of Nehe-
miah :-."I am engaged in a great work, and

been deciphered.
In consequence of the large increase. of
colonists, we to-day built more mansions.
After completing this task, we were overjoyed
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still unexploded, but pres~ably importing new

cargoes of humanity into moonland. In our
joy . we hoisted the flag on our mansions,
rushed out, and quickly assembled hundreds
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vision 1lntil the gravitation frontiers were
reached, when we witnessed tl-~'C bursting of
the foremost rocket. Strange transformation,
the conical dot broke, and from it emerged

we le~ed that our signaUmg had been

noticed, for the course of the pioneer air-ship
suddenly changed in our direction, and the
other members of the fleet followed in its
afternoon, we learned Arkwright had invented
an improved bomb-shell for astronomical tra-
velling. I was almost as terpsichorean in my
movements as David of old, on ascertaining
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.I. 01

great arc the discoveries which are being

basketed hourly, that I am loth to leave this
world, in which but a week ago I was so loth
to stay.

were tormea, WhiCh were respectively headed

by P. Faraday, Copernicus Galileo, G. Cob-
bett, Linnreu3 Lindley, and Mercator Hum-
boldt. Armed with all the necessary equip·
1'Y'I~ntll t.n ..." ..;"t n l11nn ... ~nt"... nnrl ur;tl.. €I 11 thP
inforcement of the itinerants expected in a few
hours.
Sixty-fourth day. This morning thirty mis-
sionaries of science arrived on the great mission
- -

lllClUWllg uur mamnUlllS, 1I1Ie llIee1l1ng UI my

deliverers with myself, my cannon, and Mount

Tycho.
No sooner had my. friends arrived, than I
tauQ'ht . them what exnerienflo hfu-1 hmp'hi

Maupertuis, Swa~merdam, Huygens, Liebnitz,

and Maury. The remaining six remained
with me, and found work enough in tlu:ashing
and winnowing the unsorted researches already
evemng.
To-night the census of the moon stands as.
follows :-Inhabitants abroad, 89; at home, 14.
Total, 103.

llUlllUI:a .lI:l.lIJ "IJUI:l l:li:l..l"IJll IJU-U(;I.'y' .J.: .l.lIJI:lI:lU U.l uw-

friends are thus missing. In the darkness
they must have failed to notice our town. So
deep is our alarm, that in our despatches to
the world detailin~ the sad occurrence. we-

or, "if descended, to have them directed to

head-quarters. With this view twenty-four
members of our forces manned illuminated
balloons, and took different directions. Caxton
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 T R"F.'I'TTR'N" 'l'n 'I'"I'T"F. wnRT.n_ 117

mlSsmg travellers. lioula. It oe that my

friends were martyrs to the great cause which
I had so long cherished in my soul's inmost
·core? Was Heaven determined still to awe
'nHln ll'<T thn .." <>nn;"nt annn ...,.,." .. _<>nn;i!"nt.. ?

ducted the services of the day. Last Lord's-

.day the moon's first church was established,
and comprised four' members. To-day, we
trust, there are one hundred and thirty-nine

Y III lIUt:Jll' UtlU v en:Ul\jtl, /JUL

lIllem, reJOlclIlg IlOlJ OIll

in the circumstance that the safety of mundo-

lunar travelling had been more established
than ever. It seems .our lost friends had,
throuQ'h a RliQ'ht accidAnt. RimnlvaliQ'hted UDon
118 TilE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

Ioreslgnt uaa maae no aOICnco. cturultJu

by the rigours of a lunar night, they were
forced to expend all their i,ngenuity in the
construction of a place of shelt~r. But escaped
from ono flilp,mm~.. thov fAll into another_

they were found by one of the exploring ex-

pedition!:!.
We immediately despatched these glad tidings
to the world, and ordered the renewal of the

and seventy-eight.
An electric printing-press was among the
luggage brought to-night. We accordingly
started a newspaper this afternoon. which we
ration. We struck off twenty thousand copies,
all of which we despatched to the lower world.
Such was the birth of the Lunct?' Times. On
that day its only readers in moonland were
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U 01

earthly slowness of the oscillations of the

pendulums and the gyrations of the wheels,
owing to the moon not incurring· the heavy
penalties which the law of gravitation exacted

t:::;ucn, tnen, IS tne worK 01 tno last aay or

my first stay in the moon. To bid its scenes
a farewell costs me a bitter pang, for the asso-
ciations of the last sixty-nine days shall ever
"f'AlYHJ;n Anl'lh"f';nnrl in +hA p.lo1l'1tA"f'l'I of mv nlnnlOl'V_
richest tints, and flocks of birds are congre-
gating, preparatory to their migration to the
antipodes.
Having amassed the investigations of my
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01

regency of the' moon. S. Watt was thereupon

appointed my successor. Amid many tears-
tears of the commingled ingredients of joy
and sorrow,-I bade farewell to the aborigines

with whICh 1 was much touched. Emoracmg

my friends once more, I' then entered my
ship, and was immediately swerving earth-
wards. I was accompanied by a large flock of
h~1'll" l.nf ron"";.,.,,... fn fl." +......,. ..,+;"..." ......f +l."
1'\....
evidences of the new world, but with feelings
magnetic towards home my thoughts flowed .
on before me towards the friends to whom I
was returning. Unutterable were my feelings
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gered the gullible senses gratified my reason;

what my eye declared to be the zenith, my
judgment declared to be the nadir; what was
above was in reality below; what seemed an

Items of my Journey. It IS the llrst that has

.ever been attempted with any certainty of
.success between the two worlds in an air-
ship.
1c)c)

sovereignty of a new world to mankind, so

free is the present from the fripperies of display,
that I am arrayed with no insignia, invested
with not the slightest shadow of pomp, and
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and untinctured with the :t:omance of any

mishaps. My progress, until I reached the
gravitation boundaries, was necessarily slow
and tedious; all the more so, that I took an

was such that compared. to It a Vulcan's d.escent

must have been snail-paced. At this stage the
silvery moon-like earth began to grow dark,
while the earth-like moon gradually donned its
"lH>nn Tll ... n~nO" +1....nH.... ll" .,......T n<lhun ltl T
TlTn ...
lay before me, and anon the Atlantic. Huge'
clouds here and there curtained lands and seas,
but only to embellish the prospect. With great
eagerness I watched Mount Everest, when

., .,
been noticed by the astronomical artillerists.
At other times I employed my leisure in read-
ing ,my microscopic books, or in making
scientific investigations. My momentum mean-

My cratt navmg l:>een all the WhIle unaer'

the watch of the astronomical sentinels, man--
kind had prepared me fJ. reception. By my
telescope I saw an armada of aerial armadas-
-A~T"l' +o=", ..(l" +1,0 o", .....'h'" 1'no+,..ono1;" ",nCl
the enVIrons of the earth's etha-. WMe here,
I had; leisure to take a bird's-eye view of the
unparalleled muster by which I was awaited.
Artificial nebulous scenery had been intro-
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length, had been formed into mirrors to reflect

the surrounding scenes; there were superb
specimens of perihelia and anthelia. In number
the balloons that lay anchored in such gorgeous

l:ue celural ve:s:sel CUUl:allleu. Lue WUrlu.- 8 \..,aDWet

and its President. To this focus I steered.

Amid· a thunder-storm of cheers, our balloons
met, and, jumping on board theirs, I embraced
Shaksneare-Socrates. I then saluted him 9.." thA
commenced to the strains of musIC, which
saturated the skies for leagues around. Then
ensued an aerial regatta. The various sym-
metrical tortuosities, methodical eccentricities,

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iridescent colours and lovely forms, formed .

such a spectacular display as shall be rivetted
to my memory as long as I have an appreCIa-
tion of the beautiful.

cavalcade : -

The Parliamentary air-ships.

Huge aerial vessel with band of music.
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 20,000 electricians, 100 deep, with electric
wmgs.
80 mammoth etherial steeds, with the
world's veteran chemists.

Q.LJ..a.uo.

80,000 of the world's youths on eagle back.

1,000 large steam locomotives and trains
laden with ladies.
Miscellaneous balloons, driven bv electricity

my feelings were intoxicated with the wine of

applause. Mysclf the sight viewed by millions
of sightseers, I was a straw in a whirlpool of
excitation. 'rhe lllusic, the feats, the ilIumina-
, . ,1
 1'>7

urged me to pour out my heart's most fervid

sentiments through the channels of millions of
ears into the cores of millions of sympathetic
souls. This was the only occasion in my
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great illuminations in honour of man having
founded his first colony in the firmament.
Meteorologists caused a most brilliant artificial
display of meteors and northern lights, while

levity and agIlIty smce leavmg the moon.

Though burdened by naught but my garments,
I felt as if oppressed by a great weight. Such
was the force of six weeks' residence in
100

The preparations to work the mundo-lunar

ferries were progressing with unprecedented
despatch. Ten breech-loading cannon were
being built around the world's equatorial zone,
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than tIns what could my sanguine soul desire?

Could it have dreamed of such mighty steps
but a month ago, when I was a solitary exile in
Cynthia?

not be shattered in pieces, and the broken frag-

ments precipitated in dangerous volleys upon
the earth, but simply open like a bivalve shell.
So certain was mankind of the infallibility
shots. This unexampled bombmanship sent 900
souls, not into the grave, like the cannon of
old, but into the moon. The band of lunar
argonauts comprised an admixture of leaders of
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There was BruneI Russell to lead the engineers,

and Wheatstone Oerstedt to plan a telegraph
system .. There were architects to plan cities,
masons to build them, scientific men to amass

.M.eanWlllle, the course ot the rockets convey-

ing these parties was eagerly watched, and
with delight each was noticed to burst, and
with its living freight to descend in safety on
luna ... Qn~l
were applauded most lustily by the millions
who had congregated to witness the sight.
Braver than the bravest of Amazons, greater
than all the heroines of antiquity, the grandeur
_.f +1,.",~_ n.~..,,..nnto_ .:_ .f_l1-. __...!...."nto ....1,.,...,..:_ In,n'h.. __ ;J£'I +_

nobly did they obey the call of duty and love.

The distance of 225,000 miles dissolved before
the warmth of their devotion and affection. Such
noble conduct did not fail to excite the admira-

that some 01 tIle voyagers appearea. as 11 canm-

dates for the honour of being mothers of the first
native of moonland.
Our ideas were correct, for the next IUll3!
'tYl!"l11 hrnllO'ht thA nTITInnTIl'ATIH>nt thnt. nnA of
he belonged to no particular world. Equally
interesting was the circumstance that another
Qf these fair dames, just when alighting upon
lunar soil, gave birth to a daughter.
.,. ., .,

of the topography of our junior world were

speedily unsealed. Soon possessed of an
Ordnance Survey of its entire superficies, the
genius of the world at once addressed itself to

brains, was now being founded. The ancients

said Rome was not built in one day, but lunar
Paradise may be said to have been. Grander
than the grandest cities of the grandest ages in
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1nn

Another commission of 180,000 heads, under

Smeaton Rennie, were preparing a plan to level
the mountains, fill up the ravines and defiles
of the moon, and establish cities, canals, work-
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element of beauty and splendour, and every
ingredient of convenimice and ingenuity,
blended as if by the hand of harmony, it was
destined to make Cynthif\ an elysium. Com-

brevity, it was at once referred to a lunar

embassy, with the view of practical operations
being commenced without delay.
A thira commission, almost equally powerful,
 ,nn

gravitation, bridges could be made with such

amazingly large spans that the eye wondered
why they did not fall. Steeples and towers
could be reared to such a height that they
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Halley, was appointed to equalize the. tem-

perature, to mitigate the fierce heat in summer,
and to moderate the excessive coldness during
winter. Hitherto the rigours of the lunar

of the lunarians were sadly hampered. Most

difficult was the task to which this commission
addressed their energies, and long and dreary
was their journey to success. For months
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that time would ere long enable them to

extirpate the horrors of Styx from the moon.
Onward and onward meantime rushed the
floodtide of progress. Daily the current of
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peculiar apparatus in the bomb, which gave

it whatever bias was desired, and by which
missiles could be cast into the moon, even when
the muzzle of the gun was at an angle of 80

venience, we had hitherto only the awkward

remedies of artificial showers and clarifying
re-agents. For this reason man hailed the
announcement that Scheele Boyle had invented
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 T 17To"I'TTlHJ "'A "'u.... UrATJTn 1 ~t;;

cartndges he placed in the gun, and, by

applying a strong electrical power, he qis-
engaged its mighty budget of blasts-a process
80 sudden a:rid forcible as to render the blocks

superfluous to look for its improvement.

At this stage an expedition, consisting of
Pascal Descartes, Leibnitz Encke, Burnet
Woodward, and myself, was formed to explore

ments necessa:ry lOr our researcnel:l, we WOK

our seats in our astronomical carriage. It was
then pressed into the great loaded culverin,
when we were straightway launched into
VR.P.111t.v _ RYHP.t.lV H.!'l 0111' nlans dictfl.tP,(L WR
haven. At first a small dark object, it soon
grew upon our vision into a world. But the
gloom in which it was enveloped inspired us
with anxiety. The nearer we approached the

Ere long we reached the dismal shores of

this world. Dark and dreary was the situation,
even though it was noontide. It was a day-
time without daylight. Wanting atmospheric

moon, earth, ana stars shone WIthout the

power of illuminating. The earth was a bier
only bearing death, whereof the dark canopy
o{heaven was the pall. In the circumstances,
'nTO of nnnA TYlOfOTYln-rnhn<lotl n11 ... hO llnnn ~nfn A.
a. half hours after its noon. The transition
was so abrupt, that the gloom in which we
were suddenly immersed loaded us with awe.
Lighting our electric lamp, it seemed only a
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tiously, declared it was a world without daylight

a.nd delight. But five hours afterwards, the
sunrise not only tended to illuminate the sky,
but to disperse the disquiets from our minds.

from the map of the solar system, when its

faults are only negative, and when they are
curable? Supply it with an artificial ether,
till its soil, carpet it with vegetation, furnish
.; ... ~+h n,....~..-n.n let nTto..l ohn 11 .; ... Ttol"\..+ h.1"'\. "t'T'I"r'\-wri-h.,? _~
l'Hl

comets gyrating round the sun-spindle. For a

week we were decoyed by the syren-charms of
the phenomena connected with the axle of the
solar system, and the wondrous trochilics of
"'1..~ ~~1~ _ _ ~_1..~_~ T\•• _~ __ ".1..~~ ".~_~ _~ 1..~

OJ

spent our time in investigating the geography

and mineralogy of this worldule. To our satis-
faction we found it had water, a soil capable
of rearing crops, and hills gorged with an

sIze, we were taxed WIth so lIttle graVItatIOn,

that we had almost the feeling of yolitation.
Only with the greatest difficulty could we
maintain our equilibrium. There was no air,
nn "'rmnrl nn nrlnnr <1nrl nn rI<1"1:71; 0-1,+ <!n +ha+.
between day and night and night and day,
and daily eclipses of the sun, imbued us with.
increasing wonder and awe. The mountains
around raised their heads, naked and barren.
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all, telling only the tale of desolation and.
death.
During our peregrinations we one evening
bivouacked at the earthule's North Pole. Here,

discoveries. In this case, the study of the

northern lights excited Pascal Descartes to'
make his brilliant investigations to show that
the needle points to the north, and the borealis
force of the unIverse-rays from the seventh
heaven.
But the chief interest of the island arose
from its position as man's nearest possession to

air-ship.. Though the moon was our nearest

station, we journeyed directly to the earth,
that mankind might be the earlier in full
possession of our report.

observatory as soon as man would be able to

spare an army sufficient to undertake the great
work.
At this interesting stage I made a circuit of
1-hn ",l,,1-.n f" ..,.;0= fha fnn 1-.",,,,,,,,,,,h_1narl;nno-nrn...1i1_
that had it not been for the removal of the
mountains~ and the consequent discovery of so
much hidden ore, there would not have been
sufficient material for their construction. The
,. ., , ,

deep. Contiguous were engines to work the

guns, together with foundries for the moulding
of the bombs, and chemical laboratories for the
condensation of the air for the ascension force.

moon. To our astronomical province I there-

fore repaired. How different my present entry
from the last! Then I was alone, and had but
the' beasts of the' field to accord me a welcome;
_~_ T _~~ ___ _ _
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vey of the kingdom was to me a feast of felicity.
I found it already well stamped with the seal
of art. Many arrogant, useless crags were now
prostrate m the valleys. The pustulous face
(0 •• ." , . " , T.

and the agrarian realms amplified. The in-

equalities of temperature under the labours
of the comptrollers of the weather had been
greatly mitigated by the overplus of the

in fluid liberty. So successful were these

measures that it was now unnecessary for luna-
rians to migrate from hemisphere to hemisphere
ns night ensued.
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equalled in the senior world. Net-works of
railways, tubeways, and telegraphs were woven
by the loom of art with a haste which almost
insulted time. Daily. the nuclei of new cities
~~_" .c~~~.,1 ~~.,1 .,1~!1~? "'l.~ ~1.,1 l.~~~_~ ~~~;~.,1

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geniuses, and with the most powerful machi-

nery man ever manned; and, above all, labour-
ing in a world only burdened by one-fifth of the
, gravitation duties leviable by the earth,-every

Johnson l)' Alemoert. UnlIke tlle meanmgless

geographical nomenclature of the senior world,
lunar designations were redolent with symbolic
signification. The moon's map was rendered
<> 1"..,.;"".... ;n -,,,,l,;,,h £\{It>h OTlTlol1o-!-;An fAnnrl ;h,
Its longitude, latItude, and alEItude.
Our ~ext step was the construction of four
huge cannon to make return voyages to the
earth. To prevent any collisions, we simulta-

through a non-aerial medium,-thus affording

us the key to a traffic in live stock between the
two worlds. This formed the preface to a new
page in the volume of natural history. Lunar

lUnary streams. .tlut tne most sallent 01 our

advances were. the marriages of moonly and
earthly animals, and the breeding and rearing
of the famed mundo-lunar hybrids. Vegetables
~P"'P li1-p~l!'1A t"'l'Inj;ml!'lntAt1 f ...fYrn 'W{wlt1 t.n -arn...lil.
these means the ~'auna and Ylora ot both
worlds were interchanged, and new blood in-
stilled into the animal and vegetable kingdoms
of both spheres.
Tho l11na...1anQ 'ran;,-ll ...,. I>hanl'rn,-l .f."nt'Y\ n;nTl"."...."

-
than the London of the nineteenth century.
The lunar newspaper was now supplied to
every inhabitant, and railway trains could now
circum-roll the zone of Diana in a single day.

1I1nC ur~eIlul~, UIlU UgTICW"W'Ul CUllll'~. .1Ile eUlilre

macrocosm bounded with commercial vitality.

I had ruled man's junior world two years,
when I was called to witness the trial shooting of
the ten breech-IoadinQ' mundo-lunar ferrv cannon.
5,000,000, a host which had sprung from the
prolific helly of the Mount Everest cannon.
Arrived at my father-world, I found mankind
animated with the most intense enthusiasm

consecutively, and enable as m~ny of mankind

as possible to view the trial shooting. These
were so satisfactory, that the whole series of
cannon Wel'e tested successively in presence

had the pleasure of witnessing the gigantic

scheme of S. Watt tested. The amazing feats
now performed left even our imaginations at
their utmost tension greatly astern of the
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in readiness, the pulsion force was so graduated,
and the gradient so altered, that a train might
be despatched into Australia. Amid deep
excitement the gun was fired. A terrific

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us with awe. We thought how a thousand

eventful lives were in these importance-fraught
moments Hying round the globe at a speed
only second to the Dneumatic tubes. Our

The cannon's muzzle being then changed,

and the ascensional power re~adjusted, another
string of shells, with another thousand pas-
sengers, was III a few minutes pitched into
'T J' .I. rn, ,,
 o of

accomplished, than tubegrams and telegrams

arrived from those several places, announcing
the safe descent of the various bomb-trains.
Such was the prelude to this compound system

day-a day whICh shall ever sparkle as one

of the most brilliant in history's coronet. It
had seen the maiden shots of the first great
astronomical battery. It had introduced a
n1 .. n "'T'h~{ll, ATYlnnTtTA'I'A..l TYH'Tl fo A"fa 'hl;a'h Q

-
Dover Straits in ancient times.
In the midst of these palmy days of science7
I, along with a thousand other travellers, went,·
by means of the superterranean system, to
- --
 I RETURN TO THE WORLD. 149

UVU.UloIlCI!! tUlU 111.1'" l"'UUllJg llJ"'WU",rl!! UI \juugrel:il:i

here, I thereafter tubed to the Himalayan gun,

where I entered an astronomical rocket, and
was immediately pitched to the moon.
To hasten the develonment of its archi-

inhabitants, in addition to a surplus popula-

tion of 100,000,000. Our object being to
render this mighty invasion of human argo-
nauts as speedy as safety would allow, rigid

about to navigate.
Upon S. Watt devolved the measures for
-the embarkation of the astronomical emigrants, .
while upon me fell the management of their
1 fiO 'I'HR TWRN'l'V_NTNTH ('!RNTTTRV_

\..iOUlU our tears be smothereU when every

hour rained into our sphere an army of ten
thousand invaders? Could the vigilant eyes
of our solicitude be blinded when day and
nlO'ht, t,hAl'A -Rn'W'Ai1 in nTInTI l1lO1 fl'nTTI t,hA ""lelA"" s:I.n

for the safety of a system involving such an

intricacy of precautions, and such an immen-
sity of tactics. Happily, the harmony of our
arrangements rendered them peril-proof. When

i:LllU~llt::~- wunu W.lLU I:!UUll I:!t::UW"uy: "UU~"U~

has been man's triumph in taming the wild

artillery monsters of war, and in making them
the ministers and servants of peace. In the-
times when balls were Dut into men. instead
 T Ul<''I'TTU"IJ '1'(\ 'l'1Tl<' "\.V(\UT.n 1 !i.l

trophes, and CollIsIons.

Month after month S. Watt laboured with
faithful sedulity to effectuate' the exodus from
the sub-lunary sphere, and I the influx into the
111.;..."' .....7 'Pho,,£> £>.fl'n ...f" '070...0 all +ho '01'h;lo ho;nno

of accommodating twice the former number of

passengers. - But the greatest conquest in our
campaign of scientific progression was the
adaptation of S. Watt's compound bomb system

llUllW"eU pa:S~!enger:s, or luggage proporlllUually.

This crowning victory left hope scarcely any
further advance in this direction for which to
hope.
The moon accordin.Q"lv. bein.Q" Hoon Hlmnlied
Those metals rare on earth were pitcbed
down to the world by thousands of tonnes
each week. An inter-mundane postal system
waH established, and the newspapers of both
_~_l..1n .~~_~ ~~+~_~1.~~~~..1

<:> J I <:>

superfluous mountains. By this time the

moon was stocked, not only with its full com-
plement of inhabitants, but with the surplus
population of the hundred millions of machi-

mother-world had ever possessed. The re-

moval of the senates from one world to the
other was so unique, that it afforded the occa-
SIOn for great reJOlCIngs. Their grandeur
an,..1 Q;rnT\l;~;+Tr 'nTo~a ..o-h-oa.... ;nrr fn 'l"'nTT an111
.of our day. Senseless fanfares, inflated cere-
monies, processions with flags fluttering above,
and fools strutting below,-a reckless waste of
fuel, combustibles, gunpowder, and crimson
~1~4.1. ~ 1.~~-11_~~ ~_-1 1.~_-11 ___ !_-1 __ 1_~ ___ !_

----- --------- -- ------J -- ... ------ .---

ignorance predisposed them, roared and voci-

ferated, though the occasion might be the
eelebration of kingly triumphs, but public
calamities. Such a difference between the

The stay of the congresses III moonland

hastened the gallop of lunar science, and
add~d vigour to the eyes of lunar research .
.change followed change, and improvement im-
long a8 fifteen earthly days, and the render-
ing of all its latitudes isothermal. ]'or a time
electric lights were used as a substitute for
daylight, and huge caloric works for day-
~~~~,.j.l, rnh~ ~11 .. ~~_~.j.~~~ •• ~..l~~.j.~17~~~N ~"~,,

" 0/ ..

petual full moon. During its gradations the

appearances were peculiarly whimsical, as the
portion brightened by the sun had not so rich
a shade of brightness as that lighted by the

coramglY ltS surplus popUlatlOn was returnea

to our mother-world.
On January 17, 2842, my term of service
as governor of the moon ended. I therefore
l ..ft, f()l' HlP "'l'rt,h nfi-I'l' AnnYRO"{)l'lHI rrh;Pl'l'l llll.d
entrustea.
Man having laid out his full capital of intel·- _
lectual energy and mechanical resources in
furnishing the moon, and being now in the-
"l'o(\o;n+. (\f' t.ho ''lTYl1~lo 11<I11 .....T <> l07""T" o++on(1;nO'

under Scheele Boyle, left the earth, and two

thousand under Maupertuis Liebnitz, left the
moon for this little astronomical province.
Arrived, they at once formed fifty encamp·

'PU~~t:U HI ~llt: lllUUll, WlllUl1, uy i:t'p'pl-U'pLUt~.1ll~

the invention of Boyle, prepared artificial air,

condensed it into solid parcels, and fired them
into this barren island. Day and night such
bundles were iaculated at the moonulc: dav
156 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

auu l'aVIUCM ur lJHC Hew wurru. .c.very tlUU-

·cessive day deepened the ether by a few feet.

This stage of the work being so far completed,
eight thousand of the chemists evacuated the
moonule. leav~g- the manag-ement of the che-

climatic changes. The moonule was now

furnished with light, twilight, and warmth.
It rejoiced in the boons of refraction and
reflection. The snowy locks of a winter which

ell.ptJW~luIl, CUUlSllSlJlUg ~l "LCllLUUUIli:UlU lUl"lUV.l"

and naturalists, was now despatched from the

world and moon, supplied with the adequate
machinery to enable them to prepare the land
for (mltivfliion, Hnvlno- in t,hroo months
and so excellent the husbandry, that the
moonule soop. rejoiced in its first spring, its
first blossoms, and its first fruits.
Op. flowed the tide of progress until the

u.LL1Ull Vl Ltlll LllVU~UllU, UllUtl~- '-'UV~tl~- llUllVll, WUIS

fitted out, to supply the new world with animal

inhabitants-a measure which they consum":
mated in a single year.
The world's colonization then commenced.

the age. Most unearthly were the feelings of

those who conducted those labours, and most
unique was the character of their fabrications.
Owing to the extremely small force of gravita-
, • .,. I
same cause many of the bridges had single
spans three kilomCtres in length, whilst steeples
and observatories and towers, as in the case of
the moon, were built to a height and with a
., , . , , , , . ., ."
 CHAPTER VII.
EARTHQUAKES CURED.

ment. of t.he mountain army, formerly com-

manded by S. Watt, and consisting of
10,000,000 beasts of burden, and officered
by 40,000 brains, had been engaged at Lima

that bord~red on the wonderful, whIle the SkIll

and c~re with which they were handled had
made the army one of the best schools for
the cadets' of practical natural history. This
degenerated mto a pamc. As 1t aware ot theIr
danger, the poor creatures became nervous and
excited, kicked against their traces, flew from
their posts, and filled the skies with their ulu-
laf;fu,,;, A -hOY'flO anil O"onoY'al flhnY'l1Q nf fllaTYln, ...

This shock embraced not only the lands

occupied by the geographical embassy, but
the encampment cities, with their population
of ten millions. Happily over the whole area

t::)carcelY llUU uwy ueu WllClI uue UeVUl:IlIUlilOIl

proclaimed its sway over a region outreaching

the human ken. The solid steadfast mountains
became the prey of instability, and angrily
shook from. their shoulders .QTeat cliffs and
 1 Al

the underground forces, arose the cries of the

legions of animal victims. Some we could see
vainly struggling to escape the heaving undu-
lations, others we saw engulphed in the earth-

like ships ~n a storm, squashed our colossal

engines, and clashed into revengeful ruin aught
that came within the range of artifice. Here,
engmeermg paraphernalia laboured heavily

resentment. vy nen H naa urawn oaCK ItS tlUe,

and armed itself with the full ballistic strength,
it hurled itself forwards, and, fuming and foam-
ing with rage, struck out its great billowy
P.lU"Rt, !'I.nO s:ml'fv !'!,rmSL O!'l,Rhp.o 11 A!'!.ol on 0- OVAl'
upon the bosom of the wide country, now
wrestled in desperation with the heaving,
groaning earth. Land and ocean for a while
raged and raved in their furious fray. At
l~~....4-h ,,"h~ _.~""~_~ ~ .. ~~•• _h",,;.t V~h~ .. ~,,"~.t hT?

with the truculence of the earth, it had thus

called the sea from its. own bournes, and
made it sweep to theu· doom what the earth
in its surfeit of devastation had omitted to

lV.l111lOns, moreover, saw theIr CltlOS and homes,

by one master-stroke of destruction, hopelessly
effaced, and the fair face of their country
mangled and mutilated.
'1nOll1T"'tT
 "R A RTHOTT A U"RR I'TTRli".n

ana ma.ke It mow whIthersoever he 11stect; he

could gather or dissipate -clouds, shut or open
the sluices of heaven's reservoirs; but as yet he
was' only a- prey to the caprice of the subter-
'7''''n"an ... ll.,..,."nt!;t ~{\ hA"'mhT t1,t1 t},,, fn ...... " nf

-. ........ -. .
ficial breathin'g eqmpments, and the necessary
boring machinery, the party lost no tim~ in com-
mencing their work. With the plummet, spirit-
level, and compass as their guides, they de-

eanrrs TInu nere, anu HS recumuency upun tL

huge lake of molten sulphur, extending in length
for hundreds of kilometres. So mighty was the
pressure of this lake, that it was, found to have
rent thfl flarth into millionR of nRRllTOR Hnrl
SpIes sounded the depth ot the lake ill Its WhOle
extent, traced all its shores, and discovered it
was fed by eighteen different molten currents.
By the expenditure of much skill, they ascer-
+o;nnrJ a "nT"'" h-nTn +1. .. fn'r"t> nf+llt> ;nRQTnTlHlhlA

it into a solid, tho possibility of further damage

would be stemmed.
The diagnosis being made, no time was lost
in applying the remedy. A new subtenene

l1UV U I:iU.llU UtlU VI I:iW'pHur. .1HUS WU man

triumphantly prevent the recurrence of further

earthquakes in this earthquake frequented
country.
Stons were now taken to rid tho whole !rlobe
great volumes of steam into caverns below the
earth's surface. Many subterranean cavities,
accordingly, we found to be huge steam-boilers.
One of- them was so large as to contain more

&IV 0\.:1 V ~ ... tAI.L U.l.U.J.V.LLO V.L ILLU.l.Ua;,. .L ...... VLl .....a.V.L '-'I...LOU.J..J.V","",

we discovered that the earthy convulsions had·

proceeded from a flatulent state of the world's
bowels. Tapping these huge cosmographic
wind-bags, there followed most furious eructa-

blisters caused by heated air or heated fiuids.

Volcanoes, moreover, were shown to be issues
which kind Nature had caused to be kept open
in order to prevent cosmical inflammations,
~""'''''C'I'''''''''''' __ ..... __ ............ ll"t.: __ .... rpl,.n~n' ;:J~C'(nnCi_ct "'r'I:?n_' ....
 So successfully were these measures culmi-
llated, that they suggested to Werner Hutton
his famed enterprise for the further investiga-
tion of the secret depths of man's three worlds.

average density of the earth being five-and-a-

half, and its shell being so light, it follows that
its kernel is composed of some extraordinarily
dense untold metals. whose specific gravity

sciences. Within the casket of the earth,"

added he, "lie such oceans of riches, as shrink
into beggary the parsimonious array of resources·
on its crust. Below its rocky, dusty, slimy
.L·_ _ 1 .:t _
 10'"

The speech formed a current before which

conviction was irresistibly drifted. Now like
Niagara he thundered out his ideas with
dashing declamation, anon like the Nile
, . " ,

brains which clustered around to enjoy its

light and warmth. The idea that the world
and moon being once in a fluid co.ndition, their
lighter materials would float to their surfaces,

Ulent was ·essential, because, great as is our

age, it required a mighty momentum of persua-
sion to induce it to embark upon such a stupen-
dous work. Various great pioneers of progress
1.. __ '-'-_____ -'.] LT __ ,-,- __ ' ____ ='-=__ 1\'-___ 11 __ ~ __
trod upon the, earth's scalp, we wot not of the
rich structure of its brain. Scheele Boyle
averred tlmt tlle earth's crust was the mere
scum which had risen from the pre-Adamite
L-.~r..l+;,..",... r....f .... 1,,,. .... r..-...nTlo_n·...,. .t: __ 1"'1"1 11 ~r.._ ~'YTo".l.f

.I. ., .J ...

into the molten bowels of mother earth.

A stone pitched into the sea changes its
level-a good idea launched into the ocean
of thought swells its tide. In this case, the

be anatomIzed fJY tile scalpel ot rese~ch,

though the process should occupy years, and
present lQgions of difficulties. We were cheered
by the sentiment that they who descend the
C!4- ... n.O'l"'n ,.....,,"0+ £\,,,011"\",..... -...r)(.1/')h +1,0 {'),~oan
 "Inn

Could a thousand volumes comprIse all the

stories told of those subterranean realms which
no· man had ever seen, and of which all were
profoundly ignorant? Paracelsus inhabited
1 _ ,. 1 I

--~-- ~- -_&&V_-J' l:'~~l:'&~~ V&&~ ~_& v~ _ ~&&V&_&&_

with kingdoms and nations, or planted here

the haunts of hell and the fields of heaven.
But fiction is only a pigmy mimic of giant
truth. When imagination, therefore, has coined

mechanism of its molten currents, the pheno-

mena of its hidden alembics, and all the
-economy of its arrangements. Is it all fluid,
()r are there islands of solid material in the
salamanders '( Might it not be possible so to
understand cosmical physiology, as to compre-
hend fully not only the causes of landslips and
earthquakes, but why some portions of the
rt.n,"4-h'~ _;""r1 hnTYn. '''':It'tn,...,. 11"11_..1 rt.4-1"n,..i::'I .rn.l1n....... ?

1'180 or fall ?-to raIse lands in seas, or run

seas over lands?
But why speculate when mighty truth itself
shall soon tell us more than even our imagina-
 •

these great measures, I gave birth to a book

whose period of mental gestation had extended
over a large segment of my life's cycle, and
whose pages had had their growth partly in

epitome of the characteristics of the present,

and a speculation regarding the prognostics of
the future.
'rhe attributes of pre-millenniaI ages I review
.
... _ ~
.
.... ,.., ...... , . . ... r t ........ _
Not till their possessors died were they released
into the Elysian fields of fame and admiration.
Those destined to be honoured with monuments
when dead, were scourged with envy when

"
tho glory, not only of his country, but the
world, not only of his own times, bilt all ages,
was forced to an ignominious death to escape
a more ignominious murder. For the offence of

tne less pure tnat nls phIlosopny was not Irra-

diated by Biblical light, and none the less
genuine that his ideas of a Divinity were an
incense from the altar of his own conscience:
A 1'~.,t{\tl" 11n..1,,1' ih" T\'I'AlZtmt.llTlAnt. ()f !'I. lZllTll1Rl'
was torn by his countrymen from its tiara and
cast into prison. The dry _eyes of callousness
itself might drop a tear to hear him say,
'Ungrateful country, my very bones shall not
1:~ "-: ..1.. .,;?~ .. ' D~~~'n ~~~~ 1..~~n"~...l '.L"~ ..1..~_

.L. eI eI CJ

to save himself from being a martyr to the

expiring liberties of his country, committed
suicide. Seneca was put to death by his own
pupil, the, infamous Nero. Ovid and Plato

a Onet pretace to volumes ot aa.verslty. ArlS-

tides the Just, for his disinterested interest
in Greece, was requited with ostracism and a
cruel death. Cimon, the saviour of Athens,
tintl1fulness, crueltIes tor theIr constancy, nay,
death at the hands of a master whose cause
they had only supported too well. The patriotic
Phocion, the great-hearted Eumenes, were
f'n ..."alrnn h"T +1,0 nnnn+~ +1,a..T ;t;;t nn+ f'n ..."olr"

"N:or can justice forget the world's maltreat-

ment of its great teachers in later ages. Tasso,
Galileo, Boethius,. De Foe, Bunyan, and
Chaucer, were jailed. Oh! noble heroes! the

OI neavemy .ru.n, was manyreu. l.ne nre OI

Correggio was smothered in the chilling. . atmo- .

sphere of neglect. Cervantes, '\Yhose rich
intellectual fruits have delighted the mental
nalatm;; of so manv P'f~ne1"ations. died of hllnP"Ar.
 1'7!'i

..executed. IngratItude broke the leomne heart

that unflinchingly buffeted millions of hoary-
headed, threatening breakers, and discovered
America. Though Columbus paved the way
0 ..... .:1 "' ....."".... "".:1 +h"" .:Inn... +'" " .... "''<Tr~r''' ...lrl h" .gn~"l,,,,rl

homeless in· a world of which he was at the

time the chief ornament, the persecution of
Descartes, and the malignities and indignities
$owered upon Montaigne; or need we expa-

mem uurmg nIe, line WOrIU llTevereULlY ex-

humed the ashes of Bufi'on, Blake, and
Cromwell.
"But why multiply examples? Is man not
U1l1lt.v of n p'rlmp. urAninI' than the sum total
good, and goodly great, the galling waves of
ingratitude. Paul, in mentioning the igno-
minies to which such were exposed, by means
of a parenthesis which thrills the heart-strings
~C ~~~ ~.~.j.l, ~ ~1-.~~~ ~C ~~~"":~~ _~C~~~.j.~ .j.1-.~_

in the next, spoke the memorable words,

'Which of the prophets have not your
fathers persecuted?' Oh, freezing ingratitude!
thou monster of monsters! thou hast broken

iGNORANCE. .l\.nOwlea.ge IS tne atmospnere

..
of heaven, ignorance that of hell. Not till the
hellish fumes of the latter were eradicated from
the earth, could Christianity prosper. As agri-
~",lt-n"n t-hn .... ";",u,,r! t-hn 'UTn...lr! !H:! !l ...nlr!A'rnAQ!L
 ,,,,,,,

ignorant, what trope or hyperbole can ade-

quately characterize the darkness of those
savages that formed the great mass of man-
kind? They carried on their shoulders mental
~~~~,l:~~~ h1~~.~,l ~_. __ ":..::1 __ ~. _____ • ____ 1 __

their traqes, brutes, stocks, and stones their

gods. Their eve!:y ,noble faculty was inverted
and supplanted by vicious substitutes. In their
mental indigence, they viewed animal strength

day. Man, lll. the eyes ot heaven, IS but a

microscopic animal on a microscopic world.
His body is the mere draft written on clay,
which represents for a while the bullion of the
.,,,,,,1 T+;" +h", Tn"'''''' ",.arllo UTho,.o~n f",.~. foUT
business of a country, and murder by balls,
bullets, and bayonets patriotism. Despite
clergymen, infidelity and false religion grew
rank and rampant. Despite lawyers and

city. The whole human race were unemployed

or misemployed. They were all uneducated,
sub-educated, or mis-educated. Instead of all
professions being learned, there were Dut three.

had given man one tongue, to speak one tongue.

Oh, ignorant })edagogues! oh, illiterate literati!
ye ignored the funds of unknown truths so
worthy of interpretation and study, bound up
~_ .1.1.... _ _ _ ~ ______ 1 _____ ~ _____ _ L .Ll __ L .Ll _____ -
 -
aterile regions of dead languages, and that your
education had been "irrigated with the divine
springs of truth, instead of the turbid waters of
paganish literature!

WUU 1'1UU1:S1UUIUtJ:s, UllU VtJllUtJU U1:S 1:S~tJnlug"

ware. Let us test the counterfeit confec-

tionery which was cooked. A branch of the
black art, called Spiritualism, had the assurance
to don the mask of a science: and what was it

which consisted of talismans called globules,

for a while found a fruitful soil in the gullibility
of the semi-savages of Europe in the nineteenth
centUry. The many apostles of scepticism
 -
preten~ed to be cultivating philosophy when
they were tilling the fungus beds of fallacy,
and sowing the spawn of atheism. Most baneful
and baleful were the weeds such men imported
- - -.-

J.."l U y, "11t: Y Ut:li11.1"U11tlU CU111:lC.ltl11Ctl, U11U UUUtl "111:7

mind bear false witness, and commit treason

against its omnipotent author.
" Thus, while the needle of conscience ever I

Dointed to the nole-star of truth. falsenhilosonhv.

south of atheism. There was not a point of

the compass which error did not box.
"The political economyof.the times was built
on the narrow and slippery ground of selfish-
, .'1 ..
 1 Ql

a hIgher quotatIOn than principle. To those

. .ages, therefore,· it appeared legerdemain that
postage-stamps should pay well at a penny per
.dozen, when they paid not at prices ranging
~r\.Y'n. a oh.;ll;",,.... +n.. 1ft , . ....n.TW'7'"rt.. +hn+ +n.ln..,.....,..n'YV'l['f

.,
.per mile system. If the moneymongers of
those times were startled when they saw such
triumphs of cheapness, resulting in profit to all
parties, what would their feelings have been

~OCIAL ~NEQUALITIES. un tne one nana. tnere ••

was the social plethora of wealth, on the other
the social anemia of poverty. The aristocracy
had its "hydrocephalic head, bloated at the
.pvnAnIU> nf' t.hA nt.hAl' Tl'lATYlhAl'Q nf' t.hA nj:Jt.lnnj:J]
Lazaruses. l'olitics were a cOigne of vantage
which the rich monopolized,-their Bourse,
ill which situations, titles, pensions, sine-
cures, had their· quotations, and in which

gold bought everything but truth, tainted

everything but honesty, and corrupte.d every-
thing but virtue. The attempts of many of
the wealthy to quench the rising independence

great rareraCtlon. agam ana agam me

members of Britain's M.P. Club were called
at hours when they should have been in bed,
to leave their wines, their cigars, and their
lo11nmno-RllloOll!':_ to !'lp.l1t.tlA Sp.nAmp.!'l {Ol' !,:op.1At.V'R
men were straws m the eddIes ot preJuruce.
They were Ixions tied to the chariot-wheels of
bigotry. Living in an old world of intolerant
dogmatism, they never dreamed that by navi-
O"!lfiTlCl'<>Tl !flOTlf;,.. ",.f""""'f"'r?'''''''';'''Tl o .... ..11;l,,"'..al;,,'ITI

himself, and though there had been all the

means of consummating such a desirable
object, there would have been those who,
coerced by the inertia of conservatism, would

01 LHma mgotry. ~n tne spnere or sOCleliY lilllS

arctic of aristocracy was antagonized by an

antarctic of democracy. In the social orchestra
not one of the parts was played in harmony:
fill 'UTfI~ fJ;;;t(,()l"fJ flnfJ fJ;~~()nSl.n('p._ Rp.lfiRhness
themselves the world woUld take care ot ItseU:'
Further on its course my pen roams over the
influence owned by the aristocracy of Britain
one thousand years ago. "They held the rudder
n( +'1-.0 <>+0+0'" 'l-.o1,.n_+'l-.o lTnll,",O,.,,( T .,.",.£1.. IT (}l'O

cost the Commons many hundreds of thousands

of pounds to have the privilege of legislating
for three or four sessions, it cost the peers
nothing to legislate a lifetime. Indiscreetly.

quence oy enuencmng '(;nem In '(;lIe ras'(;nesses

of fallacy, to resist reforms. No species of
toleration was so elastic as to suffer the world's
programme of progression to be thus balked.
rrhA O"fI.1AR of nll hli~ oninion. thATAfoTA. fl.TORP..
 "By a remedial power in politics, the ab-
'normal influence of the aristocracy of wealth
gave way to the aristocracy of intellect. Bitter
was the strife for mastery. Good measures
_~_~ 1:1~~ 'IT_..1_~'~ 1.~~..1~ _l.:~l. ~_ .. 1..1 __ 1_~

---.--~------ --I - -- _. -------- --J --------.- ---- -

of aristocratic corruption. The Alpine peaks

of pride and circumstance were then thawed
for ever before the genial influence of political
virtue."

81tlOn all were more or less steeped In barbarism.

The most handsome were only defaced impres-
sions of the seal of beauty. The wisest had their
wisdom margined with folly.
"~0t1 'nTOC! +h", +01", .....r 'h~t1
Yn ....... "v>n+~~n '1-.,,+
evil out of hell's bounds could be more
horrible? In the hearts of all men· were
charges of the deru's fulminates,-fury and
wrath, which burst on being touched with

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threateningly over the greatest minds. Scarcely

loss sad was the syren influence of sin, in hurl-
ing men into the hands of those harpies the
acquired appetites.

black, and abolished all physical abnormalities;

while practical metaphysics, by dint .of the
heavenly curb of self-denial, blunted the force
of the morbid appetites, and, by means of
_~;:J1:~~~~ ~,,"':.t:~;J ~~~'n n~" 1" "
 amIty and enmIty there was otten but one step.
Often, in a day's time, the world's commenda-
tien fermented into vinegary condemnation,
. while compliments deliquesced into complaints.
Tho ..1;(1'1.+0,,+ n'H''';o.... O ...... atlo +1.0 Tn;llr nf lnlTnan

IMPIETY. "In lieu of the gospel sunlight,.

the past substituted the artificial light of
¥1ythology. Infatuated times, what monsters
were their divini#es! Jupiter was a lustful

anu l;lle WllOle IOrmeu an array OI lloenlnes,

debauchees, and criminals, who, had they lived
in medireval ages, would have earned the
ganows~ Shame upon our forefathers, the pic-
tnrp,>I of t,hp.lr 0"011>1 'Wp,rp. p.l'I.rip.nt.nrp'>I of RH.t.nn T
 'I'HF 'I''l.V.... V'l'V _ NTN'I'H ('I .... NTTT'RV

ot heroes who only lIved III taDle. The UhrlS-

tian religion itself was flooded with slaveries
and knaveries, and the ruffian wrong's of per-
secutions, inquisitions, and wars. Self and pelf
urA"t> ilnrrl"in<>nt ~h<> Tn""" lnv"nt.n'rU" nf t.'J.,A

moral sirocco upon the souls of humanity. The

biting north winds of scandal blew over society.
Legions divided their time between evil-doing
and doing nothing. Gambling and betting

were VIClilms, lOr men, llKe liUPS, line womenli

they ceased to spin in a life of useful activity,
reeled in their morals and fell. Many staked
their own and their families' means on the
rollinO' of bH.ll" or the shufBinQ' of cabalistic
 1"'"

pack .of h.ounds against a po.or fox. Millions

had m.ouths, wh.ose chief imports were drinks,
and whose staple exp.orts were .oaths. Thou-
sands were ~ver under that Satanic mesmerism,
,.. T"\. ,'I t- 11 •

and gained them hell in the next. B.orn t.o be

men, they sank to the zero .of brutality. But
such was the craft .of vice, that it shrewdly
licensed many such evils, by substituting for

was a hein.ous .offence to evade even a super-

flu.ous or silly gallantry t.o a female .of fashion,
h.owever unworthy, while it was all.owable to
seduce and ruin females in .other circles, how-
____ _ !-L •• _ •• _ Tl- ____ l,. ____ 1. _I: ___ -1 l.. ___ -1
sion to subject them to tyranny, cruelty, and
fraud. There was no call upon him to pay
debts of honesty, but he was bound to discharge
debts of honour. A poor tradesman's bill was

the majority of the semi-barbarians, of those

days either made their mouths the bellows to
puff in and out the noxious smoke of a certain
weed, the effect of which was to divert the flow

pages in the volume of the world's annals, and

brings me to the great crisis when a new leaf
was turned over in the affairs of men. I
described this. great turning-point in history,
__1___ ..Ll __ L~..l __ ~ __ ~ _____ 'L __ ~ ________ 1 ___' !L_
 history, I roam on with a happy step. In
~heering tones I moralize that, while the polity
()f former times was guided by deadly showers
of balls and bullets poured into the sensitive
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~ - -0- -------- --- ----- ---- -r-- ----

night of society and admire those great minds
. which, like staJ;s, twinkled in a dark firmament.
The' Utopia' of Moore, the' Atlantis' of Plato,
the 'Isles of Pleasure' of Fenelon, were gropings

imbued with prescient inspiration, said, the

'golden age wbicn mythology has placed in
the past is before us.' Noble was the sentiment
-of Diogenes, 'I am a citizen of the world.'
"1II..T _ hl~_ n+!l1 ~.nn +l.n+ ~.c A ~n~~~~_nn ~.l.~ !_
,nn

• w nen men to men tne worm o'er,

Shall brothers be, for a' that.'
Thus were the glories of our times viewed
through the telescopes of prophetic vision.
n,,~_l,t -n_,-rr +1.,,_ 'I"'to_'hln. T't.....;"'n~ .......llul ....,..l.;nh ...... n.~"'_

.,
great principles, which were ignored simply be-
cause they were pearls cast before swinish ages.
Quakerism, Wesleyanism, and Calvinism, were
each unsmelted ore containing golden nuggets.

tnne. Tney were OUt 01 tune wun tne 8tra1Il.S

of those times because the world struck the
false key-note, and they the true. As well
have fed dogs on ambrosia as nourishoo_ the
£Ohl1il'J'An of n'J'Alnillf\p. JI.ncJ lD'11ol"JI.nf\p. with the-
 1(\9

science, IS going on conquering and to con-

quer. The erst billowy surface ·of society is
smooth. Man, tempest-tossed so long by error
and ignorance, is settled in peace under his
--= ____ ..3 .I!_ J.___ "D___ _ ___ =____ ..1 _ _ _ ..3

- - -----, -- ---- - - - ----- ..

------ --- -------

and private affairs are synonymous. Mankind

sit at one family l;learth, and harbour neither
secrecies nor mysteries. There are no greedy
monopolieli. . There is, neither venality nor

bloated legIslatIve. ..!!.,;very house III the world

contains a plenitude of comforts. Each is fur-
nished with acoustical tubes in connexion with
the nearest church and the nearest hall, and
+010 ......."'1""\l-.;" "'·\Tn.,;..." ..... ;".. +;nn "tXT;+l... ouo....." n+.ho",
that every mental throe of every brain is
utilized. The aurora of science paved the way
for the sunrise of the millennium. View its
Munchausen marvel.s. As Augustus found Rome
'1.. __ =_1-___ .1 l_.l'L =L ____'1..1 _ _ _ =____ "- ___ "- ____ .1

----0 - .- -.- .----, - - - ----- .. - - - -- - .. - - - . - - - - - - - -

of miles of electric wire and pneumatic tubing.

Its crust is honeycombed; its seas are begirt
with a trellis-work of bridges, undermined by
reticulations of tunnels, and laden with craft;

way mto Its fiery entrails, and supplied him-

self with thier heat. The planet is replete with
riches and glowing wi~h bef:tuties. Diligence
animates all, economy appropriates all, and
OUT; ",1 I'>Tn ,1; ...o"f", all
is uRshackled. Such is the thrift of knowledge,
that each worthy idea is prized and preserved;
such is the frugality of philosophy, that the
accumulated force of all the brains in the world
, . ,

AJ.L&V .t'.LVUV.L,£U Y.LV!'.&..&.vu.&..vu II~.&V ........ I I U ... V .

the womb of time is ,pregnant with enterprises.

Events destined to eclipse the operations of the
present'loom in the distance. rrhe zenith is
silvern, but the horizon golden."

to extirpate this ingredient of chaos; but the

great specific to dispense man everlasting
day slumbers in the pharmacopreia of the
future.
inter-planetary spaces shall be astronomical
ferries, more fordable than the Atlantic in the
nineteenth century. Our inhabitants shall fra-
ternize with their brethren III every planet,

alway::! Utl UllJUlUWll (,U tlacll U('lltl£, allU l111all HIt::'

stars shall roll on in their eternal gyrations,

with their inhabitants immured in stellar
prisons, is surely derogatory to the ideas of
Christian nrOQ'l'ess.

clopredia. Our pigmy world is probably a

mere dunce in science compared to other
planets, and our race a neophyte to the Gama-'
liel races of other stars. But even they may
 Hl7'

'nee !rom star to star; small worlds ot travellers

.shall voyage from system to system. The pro-
ducts of. the sun shall be exported to the
planets, and the products of the planets to the

.shall be to ?ridge the gulf between the solar

archipelago and the fixed stars. May it not
be possible, from the mighty macrocosm of the
sun, to make a cannon more immense'than could

,(;1Ons. £.j~y.tJ.ryullug WUICU ISlivuuns UJ. lRu~nJI:!I:!

is inevitable."
Further on I say,-
" The harvest of some sciences is past; that
of otliflrR lSi being- reaned: but that of meta-
100

unexplained. There are heights in resear~h

i,mmeasurably above the loftiest flights that
genius has yet made. lEllions of gems lie
hidden in the undiscovered mines of truth.
"1.'_ ___ .Ll __ '_-_1 ____ .Ll __
1'~ P _____ L~ __ _

, There are more things in heaven and earth

Than are dreamed of in our philosophy;'

and with Newton, 'An ocean of undiscovered

.. vOUIa ears, 1 aSIma, .. not De mOUllIea sa

as to Hce, eyes to hear, and skin to taste, see,
and hear? Could the-1'iirictions- of the nerves
not 1JC so altered as to assume the propertie·s of
nnv of tl1l1 -hV(' ~ml~('''? A ,..l~v lOlh~ll I'A~t!1~n lv
 HHl

1 held there would be a lottler and nobler

religion. The tendency of the times, I said,
is to attach less weight to worldly objects, and
thus allow man greater facilities for the deve-
lnnTYlt>nf I"\f l-,;.. TY\;n~- - ;;:.:;-~ fm. },;" rr... n~T+l-, ;1'1
 CHAPTER IX.

NIGHT ABOLISHED.

daylight. Convenient for our own world,

such a scheme was almost indispensable
for the moon, seeing its night extended
over so many days. Under Bude's superin-

sUltea as peaestaJS, ana we tnererore proceeaea

to man their tops with the optical ordnance.
A Babylon of workers soon planted the first of
these stalks into the Ben Nevis peak. The mirror
l'lnil .1An!'lA!'l "WArA t.hAn nronp.rlv l'l.illlld.AiI on it.",
 NIGHT ABOLISHED. 201

"[flO CaUleS orougm:; lll"[O reqwsuloll amOUll"(;eu TO

1,000 miles; the blocks numbered 2,800; the
screws 18,000; while the levers, engines, and
Dther mechanical agencies were sufficient to
annal arithmetic.

a. filiform-rod, forty miles in length, tapering

into a mere thread, and supporting such massive
instruments. Millions viewed the erection of
the mammoth pole. Not only did the head

Llit:; u!,~.1\Jcu U!'lJi1.1~l.LU;:) \'Vu;:) UUl] 1'IU\Jt:;U .111 IJU;:).!-

tion, and everything prepared to prove the

value of the sun-reflecting depot at the approach
Df sunset. While daylight lasted, we made a
trial of the tel esc oDic Dowers of the stalk. Bv
 it to its full stature. These items of our
progTamme were worthy of the millions of
spectators. The facility and rapidity with
. which they were performed, completely can-
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and dispersed its genial glow far and wide over

the surrounding country which he had for-
saken. The powers of darkness were held
at bay for nearly two hours. The artificially

the phenomena. Diurnal and n9cturnal animals

met each other and fraternized; the lark and
nightingale soared side by side; the pheasant
and owl skipped along together. All the deni-
un ... " "f +1,,, TlT£\£\£l on.:! hal.:! "DOYnOri'· OTnO,,"".:!
 C){\Q

reckoning, and, as if to express their dubiety,

crowed in a most lugubrious tone all night.
After a tho,rough quest it was dis'covered that
the range of the reHector was nearly 900 kilo-
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---- ----- -- ---- ---- .. --- ------r------, --~-- ----

. beams disseminated prematurely over the
country. The Senate, proud of the golden re-
sults, ordered the organization of an army of'
two millions of glaziers, opticians, diamond

one-titth of the former labour, to make sun-

mirrors of double the former strength. 1'he
system of compound specula was likewise in--
stituted, by means of which reHections were-
rctiector8 was placed on the peak of l\lont
Blanc. The tele8copic stalk, one mile in
minimum height, could be drawn up to the
maximum height of seventy miles. Its spe-

weather nor the force of the wind:. By means

of its collateral periscopic apparatus, stationed
-on the neighbouring peaks, artificial daylight
was dispensed over Switzerland, France, and

,SIStent ana COnSIl:ltent vIgour OJ asslaUlty.

Every diurnal revolution saw new inventions,
furthering the cause, and usurping more and
more the grim territories of night. Every
hmn PohimAn in -wit,h f:hA DTASl.f: mOVAmAnt,' !'Inti
erected the mighty pedestals, and raised the-
various periscopic paraphernalia. After two I

years' noble exertions, we made the first uni-

versal trial of the system. To. our JOY, we-
,., . .,., " , ., "

~~'&'.L'-''''''"''. -......_ r.lJ IU ...... _ 1' .. _ ...... ~'-'1LL""' .......................... .L.L.LoL ....... .LJ "",-".LV

hurried, thousands of leagues away, to invade

the regions of night, and to throw into wild
retreat the powers of darbess. The march of
Phcebus was anticipated in ,the morning by a

hands. There was but a thin partition of dusk

between nightfall and daybreak. Great efforts
were made to exterminate this remnant of
night. Hills of malleable glass, thallium,
_1 ___ =_=___ __ 'L_lL __ .1 __ 11_ .1= _________ 1.. _____ ___l_L
.nl\f)

tasks nO!' gained such consummate victories.

The conclusion was a worthy signal' to such
praiseworthy exertions, for May 18,2843, proved
the last day on which darkness brooded over
11 1-_ _ I- .11

~~~ ~. ~~ v_~ ~ -~~ ~~ ---O~-· - ~- ----, - J --~- •• -

of his magic glasses, now shone simultaneously

on all the world.
Long ere this, Bunsen Drummond had been
conducting similar operations in the moon,

now shone incessantly in its fUll radiance-a

circumstance which proved' an advantage not
so much to the dwellers in the world's air-shell
as to trans-aerial mariners and the astronomical
 01\".

and lens-headed pinl5.

Mighty were the benefits of this system to
the three incorporated worlds. The former
.expansive and expensive measures to supply
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J.----, ------ ---- --- -------

---r-- .. -- --- r- -----
men. now regulated the machinery which sup-
plied three worlds with everlasting light. How
wonderful is this achievement! Time was,
when millions were drafted from mankind as

that the soil, now that it was perpetually under

the surveillance ,and genial stimulus of the sun,
yielded richer harvests ~nd sweeter fruits.
Thus science triumphed over chaos. By one .
 C)[\Q

mighty miracle of Joshua's time.

The next cog i~ the wheel of time saw
Werner Hutton's measure so amplified, that
the earth and the moons were ordered to be
___ ...l'___ L_..1 : _ _ _ ..!_ .. _ ..1: ___L:___ __..1 __ -L ___

J'

increased the number as to equal the popula-

tion of Britain at that period. The machinery
and plant were augmented in a like ratio. New
inventions meanwhile flowed in, which were

tusion-proot halnlllllents, our explormg partIes.

were salamanders, whose element was fire.
We had the twofold object in view, the study
of subterranean anatomy, and the formation of
,"",-fl"rfo,......on llan ,.,.Q ;lTJ:TOI"'I:T -+£}.l.o. ......... o'Y\l,~ n o,'Ytorl T'\.nnn_
 lIITfU~'I' A ll{\T.nrl:n;'n C)()O

as the seeds ot speculatIOn npen mto the trUItS

of reality, it was resolveo. to ca,st our bread on
the waters and trust to a kind future for a
propitious result.
On-r n;+ 'nTQa ann lr OQ ;a "'(vall 'lrnn,-xrTl 0-4- +1,.0

our energies, bold in the assurance that heaven

would help us, who knew so well how to help
ourselves. Dauntless we perforated our way
through caverns, through subterranean seas,

nous seas, anon lillTOugn mOllien melialS. vur

ingenuity the while empowered us to make our
very enemy our ally; for, by the conversion
of the caloric of these regions into stores of
fllfldrieitv_ WA WflrA Rllnnlifld with thfl motivo
C\111>

down electric wires" These commissions en-

tailed such an immensity of toil that our
mining was heartlessly slow" Fortunately a
tide of new inventions soon flowed in upon us,
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-- --- -------- -------- - -----0 -----0- .---

of liquid lava, we came upon isles of solidity
containing mighty caverns, whose sides were
formed of_ red-hot sulphites and sulphates, and
whose interiors were filled with sulphureo:us

complete" lly this time our torces were under-

going the inconvenience of bearing on their
shoulders the pressure of nearly fifteen atmo-
spheres" Under this excessive burden, life
.....-rrt.nl~ 1,.n"T~ hnnn ",....,hnn ...nhln. h,,+ ,c_• ....hn ,...,l..,.y_
side artificial air was purveyed, wqich was so
sweet and pure that the. health and· comfort of
the intra-mundane labourers were immeasur-
ably heightened. The force of gravitation

"tllose on tne eartll's sunace. Tlle engmes,

Qwing to a similar cause, were proportion all y
stronger. '
Meanwhile machines were erected every few
Tnilp!,! of t}u:\ nit. .,-!tilumv to f!tt>ilit.flt.p HlP 'urf\1·1z._

workers ascended and descended. Countless

messages, telegraphic and pneumatic, were
ever coming and going. The long line ot
Qperations between the base of supplies and
of 80,000 horse-power engines were con--
structed- at"vaTIous points in the vertical route-
to work these great thoroughfares.
Having surmounted many thousands of fore-

~~O.L o
.Lla. • .Lll .LUa.u.o QI.L.LJ.\.L.L.1 .Lll V OQ IJ.LO <:LIJ.LV.LlO, .LIJ

was resolved to establish great store-houses in

this island in the caloric ocean, and to locate
here barracks for the accommodation of a large
a-arrison. To conduct these enterprises. another

brook. Of light there was abundance, as an

electrical lighting apparatus was a portion of
the plant of the vertical railways.
After many adventures, chequered alike with
,. ~ 1 J . , , , 11 , "
molten lakes of sulphur and sulphites, phosphorus
and phosphites, and through islands of the .same
material, until we had attained the depth of
250 kilometres, when we arrived at a cool head-
ln~..:I ~4-l-.~~ 4-l-.~ .l!~_ ~~~~_ TL_ :_4-_:~~L_ ~~_

CJ CJ .

were mighty cabinets of the wonders of. crys-

tallization. In ancient times a small chest
could have contained all the precious stones in
the world of fashion, but here we discovered .

and tor colour the ruDy. ~very hour dellvered

new wonders from the womb of time. Every
.day saw a lexicon of marvels published.
Having tunnelled down to the innermost
",1,,,,.0" "f +1,;" ;,,10 TIl'0 ho1+orl +1,0+ TlTO 1'Yl;rrh+
214 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

tjillPl"HStj, CIUUlltjU llltj UUUUIUll Ul Ulltj HUllUH::U.

thousand recruits.
Having advanced another fifty kilometres in
our vertical route, and having safely crossed
the StvQ'ian ferry of the hellish inQ'redients of

'seas of iodine and bromine, the depth of each

of which was ten kilometres. Having reached
their further shores, we came upon the arsenical
stratum.

V.1. l;ll~ Ol/.1.GlJG n\::i J.U1.U 'pa~~t:iu. WO,O VJ.JJ..) lJyYU.

That of the eal,th being five and a half, we

saw that the earth's nucleus must be a mighty
treasury of valuable metals, one of 'which at
least must be much heavier than platinum.
,Searches. .t"hI1osopllers were delIghted, tor It
had long been a favourite conjecture of science
that gravitation had arranged the oarth, like
an onion, in concentric coats, of which the
i!<><>n.,,,,f: =<\'" +1,,,, lu,a~.,,,,+ ani! +1,0 "n"l'YlA"f: +1,0.

interior, and that the earth's surface alone was

exceptional, forming, as it ,did, the scum which
had boiled up from all the other stl'ata, and"
presenting accordingly, in epitome, specimens

uelJweeu Ule melJUUIC uuu lJue llUIl-IIlCLU11lC ZiUIlClS.

Man had naturally his eagerness stretched to

its utmost tension to ascertain the anatomy of
the earth's centre, after having acquired such
an im:lp'ht into thA intArAstimr formation of its
1,000 milef:'! below its hatches.
As we anticipated, we found the arsenical
10de waf:'! solid, but white-hot. Like a mighty
fortification it stood as a frontier between the
, , • , •
, " J , , .,

lectual progress on the metallic region beyond,

the cheers of the army of labourers present ~e­
sounded our untold joy. A few moments more,
and the outsiders of the planet were apprized of

Having pierced beyond both, we arrived ata

st:r:ange region, whose constitution was at first a
puzzle. Chemistry, however, soon slaked our
cutiosity, by telling us we had come upon the
, , p" 1 e J l _ ___ .L _ ____ 1_ _ _ _ _ ___ .L ...... l .... __ ~ __ ! __ _
 ,...,w

triumphantly forded, each successive day

smoothing, deepening, and expediting the cur-
rent of our labours, and rendering the perter-
rene highway a more powerful item in 'the
,,

construction of fire-proof shafts upon a new

principle. The diving-bell system, and an
improved process of refrigeration, were here
introduced, by which the pioneers were enabled

Sommeiller catered to the delight of mankind

by inventing a system .by which the former
tedious, slow, gimlet operations for the perfo-
ration of the earth's crust were superseded by
~ .j._~._l..~_~_~ __ ~~~~_ rn~ 1.. 1-.~ nn.j.~ .j.l..n ."l,~~ln
9, 1R THF. TWF."N'TV_NINTH ~F.NT1TR.Y _

comIlllsSlOne<1 to torm otner vertIcal rauways

into the earth's' entraill'! in otber places. The
attention of mankind, however, was engrossed
by the work in the Arctic shaft-this greatest of
all ll"l>"trl.oll>" +0 +l.l> ,,"r.+l>l"T'anl>an "tunnilAl''' A",

with its sympathy, and stimulated us with

encouragements. The excitement assumed a
deeper tint when we arrived at the Argentine
sea~, and discovered in it a great isle. Enfi-

uur CU1Ulll\j1S ,\,lUllg HlS cuurlSc ISU llUl11\jl'UUlS, 11111:1.1>

every few months we were necessitated to swell

the ranks of our mining army. The lands of
lead and mercury were next empierced, and
amid Q'reat curiositv we wormed our wav into
 "N'TflHT A R()T.T!OlHRn 9.1~

01 slllcon tne neat strengtnenea., ana. that trom

silicon to silver it was constant, while from
silver to the earth's kernel it declined. Facts.
afterwards Gorroborated these views. The next
t.l~lnO'SI "UThlPh 'UTA...A -R!lSlhA~ tn thA "hAll nf tho

How lame and decrepit were the fancies and

fictions of El Dorados compared to this reality!
After tunnelling 3,000 kilometres into the
'earth's intestines, we had come upon Nature's

..a.UV lllg urUlSlStJu LlltJ uurutJruulS ~UUlJ, wtJ l:Ull~tJ

upon platina. Curiosity had now reached its.

culmination. The world's known metals were
now exhausted. What could be beyond?
HavinQ'. amid the urofound interest o'f the
.()C)fI

.a new and unknown element. Wondrous were

its properties; it was more pliable than gold,.
more enduring and more heavy than platina,
more malleable than iron, and more lustrous
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---- .. - - - ---.1---0------ .. ---- -----0--- -- -----

uses so many, and its properties so valuable.

At this point, the interest of mankind was
so stretched, and the savants of the world
were so· gluttonous to feast on the earth's sub-

use an extra supply of artifiCIal aIr was gene- .

rated, and lodgings prepared, purveyed with
all the et-ceteras of comfort. On May 1, 2851,
we had our first convocation in this amazing
was no sky, no vegetation, no earth, no clouds,
and no sea, and where, in place of being-
ensconced in our usual halls, we were encased
in crypts cut out of a nobler metal than silver
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---- -------, ----- -------- -- ---- -------

mastered intra-mundane science. Our pro-
ceedings the while were notable for their
wisdom and statesmanship. No ten parlia-
ments in the times of kingcraft ever discharged

The march was then continued towards greater

achievements. Triumphant advances were·
heralded weekly. So inestimable was the
mineral wealth of the earth's core seen to. be
beheld the world itself but one mighty jewel
-of the noble metals, encrusted by earthen
-ore.
These operations, meantime, found their

UIJ~\;ULUO VJ. .l.U\.LL.l.tJ\.i1J U.I.'lVOO.L.Llf:)0 OVVll .U.VVVCi\..L

from these explorations. Man being now

provided with such stores of noble metals,
was empowered to facture much more powerful
scientific instruments. Accordin2'ly, the armies

. was so to increase the human ken by means of

instruments that the focus of immensity might
be espied, while the pinnacle of the ambition
of histologists was to discern the nature of the
..
, ..
,
 00'1

-to be similarly enlarged and improved, so as

-to bring them into a position commensurate
with the advances of the age. The attempts
made towards amelioration were sublime, and
L _____ ____ L_.l LL _ _ LL ___________ l_~_L LL __ _

.. ---- -- c-- o- - - - - - , ---- ---J .. - - -------- --- ----

tion, though it should be a needle in the hay-

stack of intricacy. Inventions, therefore,
streamed in daily, by which greater strength
in apparatus was conjoined with proportion-

need 1 waste words In applaudmg that which

-the world has .already so well applauded?
Si~ultaneously the Lyceum buildings Ull-
derwent a great reformation. The senate-
224 THE TWENTY-NINTH CEN.TTJRY.

every acOustlCal convenlence, ana every

imaginable desideratum. Possessing three
Jmndred galleries, all radiatin~ towards the
area for the senators, and affording accommo-
fl!'l.t.ion for !'In ll.llnip.n~p. of ilvp. rn11lion!'l_ it. !'It.ill

- -
exposed. to every eye. By the speakers using
loquifiers, or the hearers auroscopes, every
whisper can be heard in every corner. Such
are the facilities for entering and departing,

UllU. ~111J J:111H;UI:i U.l I:iLIJIJ.lIJU. l:;UUi;l,H. L llt: .l"UU.l-

nay, the firmament of the building-is a marvel

of artistic genius. Its central d.ome, rising
three miles in height, has its gores made of
malleable rubies. sannhires. and diamonds.
 and view the scene b~neath. The structure in
. its great entirety sees the union of strength,
endurance, and elegance. Its form embraces
such a prodigality of the loveliest of ·curves,

~ - --.1.- - ~-
of 01
"
and iridescence cause it to be but a great
temple crowded with chromatic and catoptric
effects.
On June 10th, 2854, it was consecrated to

Its pertoratIOn. Vne July evemng, accordmgly,

we, along with the scientific congress, tubed to
Australia, where, having entered a string of
bombs in connexion with its mundo-lunar ferry,
TIT"" TIT""...a fn...+h...ah rla"naf"hot1 ~nfn Tnnnnl"nrl
the ~ite of the portico of one of the per-lunar
shafts. Arrived here, we were welcomed by
millio~s who had mustered from all parts of
the province. We were thereupon supplied

an intra-lunar garrison. There we beheld

telegraphic tra~ways and pneumatic stations,
teeming with activity. Proceeding next to the
pioneers, who were advancing towards the other

Circumstance maae us CUt very rIalCUlOUS

figures on joining this army. Our movements
were as extravagant as if we' had been automata.
The least exertion made us leap to such bounds
t.hl'l.t. ml'lnv of ml fll'l.Rhp.fI Ol1r hp.l'l.flR l'l.O'l'l.lnRt. thp.
 ~

agencies to enable us to walk and work in these

regions in a spirit of mQderation.
\
 CHAPTER X.

PERFORATION OF THE WORLD AND MOON •

.l..l.llit:at:;;.:",VLL IJllt:i WClJl- ~.u.o .

~ UJO QlLLLL\..I.lIll0J..l.J.VV.l.l;:::'

molten yolk, the cantonments of sub-cynthian

miners, the pneumatic and traffic railways, the
various stations, and the great machinery at
each, were all subiected to our scrutinv,and all

all its noteworthy wonders. We then returned t<>

the other pit, where we resolved to remain until
the way had been hewn out by which we could
be enabled to pierce through the moon's heart.
A _1. __' _1_ _1-'
it was only by. the agency of compensating
appliances we could mai~tain our equilibrium.
-Our interest in the work boiled into excitement.
Another incident added coals to the furnace of
_________1_____ rn1 _ _____1 _____ ~ __ .Ll_ ________ ~J..'_ _ L_.l'.L

enthusiasm the race of emulation, and fondly

each one favoured his favourite. S. Watt,
as the leader of the northern army, and
P. Lesseps, as the captain of the southern,

towards our army. Amid the fervour of the

confederated worlds we gained the apertion
race to the goal of the moon's kernel. The
scene of o~ arrival was as whimsical as trium-
,.,.ha ..... .j. ,...,.,1-."...". ....,.a" a '+,,+01 ".,,,noTl,,;nTl nf +hp
substance enjoyed an amnesty from the ngours
of the'laws of stati~s. Joy, applause, and
hilarity were universal. It was difficult to tell
whether we inhaled the more pleasure from our-
~£\nnll£UJ+ £\~ ";'nrn 4-1..0 ,..t1..1;";oa 0",1 nn'l'Yll;no l;f;.oa

At present we could only be a few hundreds of

metres apart, and I therefore kept in the van-
guard of our army to be ready at any moment
to see the consummation of the per-lunar high-

SIgnal to stop operatIOnS, .1 rusnea towaras tne

spot, pushed my hand through the forlorn
hope, and instantly felt it grasped. It was
the hand of S.. Watt. Eloquent silence
T'P10'TlPrl foT' Sl. fA"W !,:p.~onrl!':_ foT' 011T' t.hOllO'ht.fOt
 •

001

arms, fraternized, and together engaged in great

thanksgiving services for the successes of their,
mISSIOn.
Two days afterwards the per-lunar corridor
________ .3 l.. __ Ll.._ n ________ ___ ..l1!_______ :11: __ _

------ - - - - - . - - - - J - - - - - J --- ---~ - - J - - - - - - J - -- - J

its pneumatic tubes. Having arrived at the

close of these shuttle movements at the antarctic
c~ty, we were received by mighty multitudes ..
~ith them we had a council, in which we dis,.

world, 'WIth aU the comiorts ot the age, and

that it pulsated as strongly with the full vigour
of political and commercial life. The greatest
grievance it possessed was its shallow atmo-
ether. To hurry thIS measure we decreed
that the world should export parcels of con-
densed air to the moon as it did formerly to
the moonule.

Immediately on our departure the great

atmospheric generating factories were built,
and set in operation. Mountain loads of nitrates
and oxides were decomposed, and their oxyge~

ImpOrt;eu rrUIn t;ue wonu Uluueu l.11e lUJlW:

gaseous ocean to twice its former depth-
an extension of infinite advantage to its
manners. This measure was redolent with
hlRRRln.m'l. It not onlv nromotflo the traffic of
 P'F.Rl<'OR ATTON 01<' TR''F. WORT.n A 1\Tn U{){)1\T ')~~

Invests thermal rIChes, m order that hIS daughter

'Ceres may be enabled to draw upon him at will.
By the amplification of this aerial treasury-box
we knew that the sun would greatly enlarge his
.f>Qln...;" Qnrl l11M>nf rlOTV\.,;f", anrl +1-.0+ +1-.",.£11-...,.+1-. .....

All this time the travails of the armIes m

the earth's per-polar lines had held a dis-
-tinguished place in the ledger of public affairs.
'The heroes of the expeditions, by their plodding

,eanll 8 peneliraua, anu ""nell" lSuulSequerH UlpplIlg

upwards towards the antarctic pit, were such
;as kept the world in a continual ferment of ex-
.ci tem~nt. As foretold by Pascal Descartes,
inA ~p.ntrP. of P'l'avitv waR found not in tnA
OQi

But an unforetold and unexpected phenomenon

revealed itself at this same time. When
drilling through the millennial-gold kernel of
the earth, we found in its interior a huge
~!_~ .. l~ _ _ ~ .. lL .c_~ l_!l~_~.L_~_ !_ ;J!~_~L~_ rpl.~

abeyance, only the earth rE;lvolved with suffi-

cient force to give its inner strata a decided
centrifugal action. From this cause the hollow
chamber was found to be longer equatorially

Though at present lt only possessea. one com-

munication with the outer world, it was in
future destined to be the junction of ten
thousand per-terranean median lines and the
+,''''"'' fif +1,0 UT£"..l,1'" +....,ffi .....; ...,,"1.,tn..... T "-'T,,+t,un
the case ot the per-lunar tunnel. At thIS tIme
tho north shaft had been extended to 4,000
miles, and the south to about 2,000 miles. To·'
the head-quarters of the army engaged in the
tlnono"r 1'"\;+ +lla Q£\rHl",~,.a ,,1
0·.... ,u'IlJtrlIYJIQ Qr1~nll1"nDii

. surface by coming out at the other side. As it

would not suit for the meeting of the opposing
,armies to take place in the molten main of the
earth, the south army halted after reaching an

wnlcn nan consumea so llttle tIme, OUt so mucn

toil.
The next entry into the diary of history
was the completion of -all the per-axial
tllnnpl-worln: ~m(J t.hp onpnlno- of thplr rHl1wHv;;: ..
 pOlar passage were now <11stnOute<1 over tne
other mesial shafts in course of being sunk.
The work received a great impetus not only
from this cause, but from the unceasing inpour-
• ~n()' of n 1'0nI'11 ....."nt t,i1" of ;nv"nt"on~ RnCl CliR-

the flues and vents of the cosmical furnaces,

were portals leading deep into the earth's inner
,chambers, we henceforth appropriated many of
them in making the various per-terranean

·UlSLUllllSJllllellll lIllULI lIue' WHUle WUHll WUI:S tm-

veloped in a stratum of water as well as air,

with the simple difference that in part of the
earth's surface the water wa~ super-terranean
and in nart sub-terranean. ·:An the continents
 w w

colonies, while in our·,native world they had

assigned us Asiato-American, Mrico-American,
Australo-European, and Chino-European tun-
nels. A trip through the wo~ld was now one of

were renaereQ. unnecessary..lne eanll"S SKIn

no longer needed to be lacerated and torn for
ore, nor were furnaces required to extract
metal from dross. Kind mother earth had
illimitnhlp. rp.!Ol011r{\p.!Ol in hp.r hO!Olom. nno tho nflr-

traffic stimulated. Those on either hemisphere,

could be jaculated by tube to the other, almost
instantly, or by the use of the ordinary trains
one million of inhabitants could be carried from
 the other, within the compass of a few seconds.
The next item on the programme of history
was the introduction of interplanetar signalling.
'The spring-time of this movement commenced

lit:/L'VD\.IV'pvO ua,u. UiLL ~CAlu..J "'(.Iru.O.J~ U lI.O 'pLUlLUJ IIUI.&. e; v v -

graphy, and had told us there were nations
beyond the earth, and other races than that
·of Adam. Human aspimtions having arisen
yearly to loftier heights, it was resolved by

themselves tasks for which any age but our

own would have been unequal. Electricity was
represented by a large army under Galvani
Volta; chemistry by another unde:t; Lavoisier
T"\ _____ ~ j • _ _ ,~ _ __ _ _ _ J 1 _ _1 TI 1
that the tederal worlds were dratted tor thelr
fullest quota of support.
In the first signal all the figures of mathe-
matics were made on the earth, by means of
hl1rr., "''''nrrOQ nf .,1.,,,"";,, TnQll"YlaQ~l1'y\ Qnrl nfh.,,.

Gibraltar, Hindostan, and the Cape of Good

Hope.
The distribution of the Promethean forces
and the illumination of the devices were per-

l:nrown liO line moon, a Journey perrOI'IIleU LllalJ

we might view the effect of the illuminations.
According to plan, we a~ved at the city
Tycho, which we made our head-quarters.
TrUA to our AxnActations. WA WAre met bv
ot rctlected lIght was not put III operatIOn
this night, in order that the effect might be the
more brilliant.
Meantime darkness was creeping over the
DClg+.o"n hllTY\;gYl.ho'rO anri "n"'lTo;l;nl'l" a Q-n..o.Il.f.olll.o..

surmounted this inconvenience and rendered

the fiery lines so unclouded as left no scope
for a fault, and caused all criticisms to be
e~ogies. Our anxiety now lay in the hope·

or otner planetar races oe~ng mrccteu to our

spheres, by reason of the recent changes by
which continual daylight had been introduced
~nto the three confederated worlds.
nm·inO' fonr wppk!'l tlH~!'IP. hl'illiH.nt ~p.lp!'ltiHl
Qf flame on the face of Jupiter. The announce-
ment threw the world into a fever of joyful
excitement. Never was the news of the victory
Qf any General received with a fraction of the
__ "-1____ =___ rnl.. _____ _______.l..=_l..
~ ~_ 1,_,1

.L~

brotherly salutation. Our longings were· soon

gratified. Thousands of telescopes in every
latitude were pointed at every suitable hour
towards this star. Meanwhile, its dots of flame

Vlously dIsplayed on the earth. .Hut greatly

were ours outstripped. Those of Jupiter were
forty times larger, and almost forty times
brighter. This was joy-fuel to our heart,
0'-1 +'h.a Tnn;on ;ll"TV\~no+;nTlc! 'UTO'rO c!/'\ l;1rol~T fn.
scopes were dIrected, the other solar members
were watched by myriads of eyes more eager
than those of an Argus. For a time, however,
sentinel eye gleaned no further intelligence
fn ... ~<>nf<>;n "R....,;n

-
and speed these were painted on the vestures
of mother earth. In one day diagram number
one was deleted, and in one w~ek diagram
number two completed. At this stage the

rrR"(;ernlze.
Pl"UVtjU lJutjY, "(;uu, were prepanng"(;o
That the telegraphy might be conducted me-
thodically, the second series of our astronomical
insignia was kept blazing for two months, "by
which time thev had been answered hveverv
springs of humanity. The oblectation was the
·deeper, seeing that the planets had superadded
to what we had designed many mathematical
figures. This afforded undoubted proof that
+l,~ n~:~~~~n :~ _h:~h _~~ _~:~: __ ;J _.~_~ ~•• 1

.1.- - - - ----- - --c-- - ---,

wonder of artistic excellence, and showed the
mighty strides which were· being taken in as-
tronomical painting. The representation, while
the mirror of beauty in point of contour and

trom heaven were descendIng upon hIS head,

he was shown to be lost through sin, but saved
ihrough Christ. His past and present con-
-dition, his past and present history, his fall and
surne many pages. In beauty and ill desIgn,
the fiery daguerreotype was one of the greatest
achievements of modern art. In every line-
lurked· a grace,-in every touch there was a
0; rM"'II~+:"o'l"'lno hl £nTi:~'" ,l~rl +lll::' C!lr;l~n 1 "nn;"nll4-;nn .

.,., .,
coloured flames, until one would have imagined
there was scarcely a line capable of improve-·
ment.
To view the gorgeous ge~graphical fresco,

temporary CItIeS were erecteo., prOVISIOnal oDser-

vatories founded, and extemporaneous railways
constructed. ,Such.was the stress of the public-
interest in the signalling, that the flow of .busi-
nRRR in thR RRnior nncl lnnior worl(lR WHI'L for R.
which had mustered us was well worthy of the
mighty assemblage. Such a picture of flame
encased in the firmament was a sight for the
nature of whose grandeur language failed to

-\.IU\..J.LClO .l-'~VY\:l\.L llVn .I.V~lJl Hac 1.I.1..L..:::J OLlUlJUO V.I. I.I.LI.U

Jovian fine arts, while the rapidity with which

it was etched told' ho)V complete a mastery the
J ovians possessed of the practical arts. Its
principal feature was a representation of one of

the same mould as that of Adam.

The interest of mankind fevered into intense
excitement, which underwent an exacerbation
when Saturn displayed a glowing delineation of
_ Cf _ J... ___ ~ __ ~.L _ _ __ J. _ ~ _ __ _ 1· _ _ , ____ J... __1 _______1 ~~ .1..1_
 " - -------
--- ------ -----------

beam with greater delight, even in the mo-

, ments of their greatest discoveries, than those
-of men as they beheld the stars for the first
time, not only proclaiming God's 'handiwork,

became embellished by similar etchings, each

-of which possessed its own specific beauties.
The stars erewhile, only talking the language of
nature, were now the signal-boards of intelli-

waR powerfully recruited, and the. sublime

system of sketching daguerreotypes by pe~cils
of :flame on the canvas of the world's crust
improved.
m'L _____'L ________ .:1 ___ 1 ___ L'L _____ __ .:1 __ _
 PF.RFORATTON OF THF. WORLn ANn MOON. 247

our energIes ever oore us on successwaras.

To trace, however, the gradations of the·
inter-stellar intercourse, or to describe the growth
of the eJIlblematical language, would exhaust
Tnll~h nl'l.t.ip.n~p. ~l.11(J TnH.nv vol11Tnp.!'I.

geneous fractions of the ruined race of Adam

was a work so divine that Heaven sealed it with
success, what term is worthy to be applied to
the coming federation of ~he whole solar family?

('ll" \;U.lJ.J.lilu.J..lJ.U.l.L. W.l.L1.\;.l.L .l.lCL" CL1.J."O.l.L CL.lilUlli:5 1.11"

children, and thereafter .stretch out its hand of

fellowship confirmatory of its co-operation in
the great movement. Compare~ to it we must
remember that our planets are pi2'1llies. Its
 (

/
24~ THF. TWF.N'I'Y-NTNTH l'!F.NTTTRV_

'l'heWOrlQ, WIth thIS prognostIC In VIew, nooly

sweated day and night in urging on the mea-
sure. We believed that the confederation of
the solar and planetar races was an item in the
llnnnhliRhp.n nrOO'1'R.mmA of nronhp.~v_ Hnn 'Wp.

vented the means by which fire was rendered

unnecessary as the pigment for sketching our
astronomical hieroglyphics. By an adaptation
of the world's mirrors and ranges of light, man,

J,.lUll.lpl::at;u U Y HJ.t; t;A\jt;OI:IJ. Vt; UllJ.J.t;UUJ.t;O UJ. P.l-U-

curing sufficient fire for his purpose. ..'

END OF VOL. II.

 ANNALS OF THE
TWENTY-NINTH , CENTURY;
OB,

~ft "ut.abiognti~!l .af t~t ~tnt~ IJrtsibtnt .of tit

• .arlh-Jtpblic.

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III

'l.onbon:
SAMUEL TINSLEY,
10, SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND.
1874.
[TM right of tn""~ u rumed.]
CJlABCBBY LAn, &c.
 CONTENTS OF VOL. ITL

---

IlL I JOURNEY TO VBNUS • 33

IV. To ABTS AND SCIBNCBS bl' VBNUS • • 99
V. TBlmA-VBNUSIAN (EcuMENICAL COUNCIL • 130
VI. VBNUSIAN MISSIONARIBS SBNT TO TO WORLD. 198
 Jl.l~l~AL~ U~' Tl1J!j

TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.
---
Jast chapter, sentmel moon had not walked
his paces round the earth more than five times
since their occurrence, when steps were
adopted by the various planets with the view

w _

brother stars &ignalled to us, and to each

other, of the progress of their work-progress
so encouraging as served equally to extin-
guish our impatience and fan our delight.
o

be several thousand metres in length, that a

fulminate had been .compounded suitable for
its propulsion, and that the plans would be
perfected for the unmasking of the celestial
'L_.u.__ _ ______ _ 1 ___ .1. l..._..l __ ._ .1.___ __1.: .... _

--~-- ~----~---- --J ---- .1.--

prophecy. It foreshadowed the institution of

intersidereal ferries, and the journeyings of
intermundane travellers. The picture was a
poem in its sentiments and in its beauty, and '

had ever been vouchsated man smce the twmk-

ling of the star of Bethlehem, were welcomed
with unbounded acclamation. We saw that the
'grand era of interstellar communion was on
+1.0 OVa nf "nn"'lTYlTYl<l+~nn Tho ,,1.,,-..,,1.OC! "",TI:"''''
congregation, uniting in one triumphant song
of thanksgiving. Having thus tendered our
fervent thanks to Heaven, we then greeted and
gratulated our brother races, by illuminating
L'L _ ____1.3 _-.!L'L L'L_ =__=_= __ 1:' =__ . T ___ 1'___ _

--~---- -- ---------- -. -- --- - -r--------

tidings.
During these halcyon days, the army' pre-
viously organized to invent a cannon 'with the
minimum of size' and the maximum of strength,

mental current swept away those dIfficultIes

which at first appeared impreg~able. By the
ingenious, plans which had been framed, it was
found that a gun of only two miles in length
"D'rn.,,1;t hft C!"~n;nn4- +n ,.....;4-nl'l 'I'Y\~oo;l.o.o no +01.,. net
yet powerful minute wheels, its larger daily
wheels, and still larger and larger weekly and
monthly wheels, were working great revolu-
tions, great refonnations, and great advances.
T_.L_ .L'L _ _ _ _ _ .£'.L'L! __ 11 ________! ______ 1_: __ _

--- ----- ---- .--- --S:4--- --- .--- . --J

depths of drudgery, that man might scale the·

battlements of his purpose. .
The clock of hi!tory stood at August 13,.
2868, when the Jovian cannon was completed~

filtered from anxIety, as we wItnessed the

success of the Jupiterian bombmanship.
To Saturn the missiles were first thrown,.
. and, as we ascertained by the ·signals, they all
.as to the language, the customs, the appear-
;ance, and the history of the Jovian race. For
.a few days we saw planet after planet served
with ,a ballistic communication from the mighty
'r>~~~n 1 ~.~ n~..1 n~ ln~~1. ~1.n nn_4.1.'~ ~.. ...:.

o·
-progress of the missile was watched with all_
the more earnestness when the annoying dis-
~overy was made it was so badly aimed that it
-flew wide of its mark. Amid intense vexation

telegrams been apprlzea. ot the event, were

,carefully reconnoitering it as it careered in its
erratic course. .For a while we dreaded it
would come within the gravitation frontiers of
..,.+1.0... nloTlo+" u;n;OTlQ nf (>11"';O"Q O-.:TO" ""1'_
.1\ 'I'HF. 'l'WF.N'I'Y- NT NTH r.F.NTTTRV_

tne otller. It now oecame a prey to tne

librations of indecision. It was now allured
by the persuasive gravitation powers of one-
orb and anon of another. After a week's-
hoAn1z.',.,"h flnllnt,nCl' illl"rlnCl' 'w:hll"h it ....,.nQ ....,.11AA_

-
to the superior inducements of the earth. The
world so long impaled by suspense was now
elevated to the summits of delight. It having
been discovered that the message from Jupiter
- -- -

tlCUPll: UI:"'''t:~-.Lt:tI Ui:l.U LU uu t:n;CLt:u. .1Ut:UUlI.LWU

the dot to which all eyes were now directed

enlarged until it, became perfectly clear it
would fall into the Pacific Ocean. Unseen,
unfortunately. the bolt hit this world and hid
 7

lDSlpl<lItIes ot hIstory, and WhICh time but

sparingly dispenses. In the many thore is
majesty. The numbers present, but more par-
ticularly their unbounded enthusiasm, sealed
+1,.,. ".....,.,,+0,,1.,. -nr:+'h +o 1
;nlTYIA.. ;TYlTlA..tanroo TTYI"_

nnsslye. After three hours' toil, the search was

successful. The band that found the bomb
consisted of Brindley Telford's pupils. In" the
exuberance of their joy, they hurried out of

l:umW"W-lleous rU::Hl alrwarUlS. ..l'rOlll 1111::; .n:lnl:iUll

the submarine race of three miles excited a

turmoil of collusions, collisions, and confusion
-a farrago of disorder which became more
tllmnltnOlHt fl.R thR mvrmidom; nushed nell-mell
Those vessels, drIven oy whales, sharks, and
other bulky animals; fared worst, owing to the
scramble making these marine steeds unman-
ageable. But what commenced so ill ended
~011 'Ph"'1"...h fho ",noon Q lrn",,,f ;.., a Tn"""'''n •

.
bearing Brindley Telford's pupils, and having
in tow the Jovian bomb, was necessarily the
focus of all this furious ferment; but it was
piloted successfully to the senatorial yacht.

.Jove, wmgIllIlg" ISUlllt:: llUIlW"t::Ul:I UJ. LUlllS, waH "Lnen

raised by means of a windlass, and in a few
minutes laid" on the deck of the vessel. Its
fabric was composed of a remarkable metal
unknown on earth. which we.afterwards fou.nd
 A 'MFRRAOF. 'F'Rmr .TTTPT'T'1<~R. 9

we oellevea to oe lOCKea up III ItS Kernel.

Machinery was therefore applied at once to
unseal the partition of suspense that stood
between man and the gr~tification of his
.4>11 MOQ;i:v

ball. Man's patience afforded but little

protection against the galling pangs of so
.bitter a disappointment. Consolation itself
was ignored for a while, as we mourned over

.UeIug alJuuneu.
But how oft is there least necessity for vexa-
tion when we consider there is most. The
mo'rbid fElelings excited by puny myths, torture
us more than the vexations caused bv sad l'Aali-
10 THF. TWF.NTV- NTNTH c!"~NTTTR.v_

at tne eartn. AnxIously ItS course was watcnea.,

until it was noticed to alight about 8 P.M., and
disappear off the shores of San Salvador. A.
search was instantly instituted. Millions hurried
frrnn ",11 Tl"''''+'' 1'\; t.h" o","'+h t" ;,,;n ;n tho hllnt

more numero,;!s the seekers, until 1 P.M., when

the bomb was found and placed in the flag-
ship, Pinta. Delight conquered all our doubts
when we found that this missile was totally

ments, plantS, seeas, mIneralS, moa.els, Oottles,

periodicals, engravings, maps, philosophical
instruments, and, above all, innumerable non-
descript paraphernalia, concerning the use or
Wlo",n;no' of uTh;~h WA WArp. t.ot.nllv nt "A'"
 , .-
11

and illustration. Though the print was to us·

hieroglyphical, and the language a mystery,
we felt that time and study would ere long-
unseal both. Happily the pencil speaks a uni-
_____ 1 1_______ __.l _-= __ 1 __ -'-1 __ T ____ =-'- __=__ _

-------------- .. - - - - ------- - --- -- ----- ---J-

of unknown facts, and possibly unriddle

hUIidreds of hitherto misunderstood pheno-
mena. Amazing was the contagion of the
news. In a few moments it spread through

from the stars.

After the other foreign articles had b!3en
thoroughly scrutinized, the order was given to·
steam to the peninsula of San Salvador.
:ltuttered, bands played, and men sang. Within
the area of the human 'ken nothing met the eye
but studied magnificence. The rejoicings were _
redoubled when we reached port. From land

Man, in view of this vast influx, had already

:supplied the place with additional telegraphic,
pneumatic, and railway facilities. The intelli-
.gence w~ bore With us we were therefore able

oJ upltenan nOokS ana engravmgs, copIes maae

-of the maps, models framed of ihe various
instruments, descriptions written of the other
,contents, and photographs taken of the bomb.
ThA ~An!ltA liln:mn!O:A Ilnnoint.ArI S'I. ~ommij;lj;lion
 The crowds in the meantime were immersed
in a lather of excitement, and every minute
their numbers and, disorder were increasing~
By 2 P.M. San Salvador was besieged by nearly
___ 1.._1.L'_.L'.L1.._: __ 1.._1..:.L __ .L _ _ .L'.LL _ _ _ _1.1 ' __ .1 ..1.1 __

fusion. Within a few square kilometres were

packed more inhabitants than the world possessed
in medireval times. The streets and houses were
as thickly beset with human beings as Egypt

and entanglement. The railway termini were·

still unceasingly disgorging millions of passen-
gers, while balloon, pneumatic tube, and ship
were bringing legions. The clamour of voices.
1..4

Before the stress of the unspeakable commotion,

.and the irresistible demand for news, the cabinet
of the world might have been pardoned had it
stuck in the slough of the deepening embroil-
_~_~_ "L"~_ ~l..! __ ~~_~_ ~~_!_~~! _____ .~_ .. _!_~_

-L J

perfection of strategy. Manifestoes were first

published~ declaring the presents from Jupiter
would be exhibited as soon as discipline had
been attained; that, on account of the pother

.own representatIve m Uongress; that each

leader would therefore appear in mid air in
his official balloon, decked with its due insignia;
.and that his followers only required to take up
<l T\n"a~nn <'If f1,o T\n~nf. "tl11,o...o ~f: ,,1,nnlrl TlTo~rrh
 1t:

his own hive, and conducting it whither he

listed. The speGtacle nobly exemplified the
wonderful organization which was possible,
through scientific agency, in this age. By a
,.--

- .. _-_. ---- ---- ----- -- ----------, ----J ---

the obedient followers. At length they were seen
to file in a vast circle, according to the latitude
they represented, so that, as at the great jubilee,
man were arranged according ·to their geo-

in the sky to the east was interpreted by the

telescopes as a huge balloon, bearing the cabinet
of the world, and the massive missive from our
brother planet. Amid storms of ~eart-thrilling
_ •• ~!~ 4-1.~ ~!~l.4-T~ .. ~"":~1 ~~nn~l n_....:n~.,1 ~~..:J_,-
 hands. Hy this time the cabinet issued another
manifesto, ordering the dismissal of the assem-
blage two hours. hence, and declaring the articles-
would be scattered over the earth, and borne-

Music pealed -and wafted the sentiments of"

_man to the skies, while the stupendous gather-
ing gradually dissolved. During this and the
following week, the Jovian articles were ex-

IUgllu IllI:I.U UIU 111ue IllUI"e 1.111:1.11 I:ij.lUl,;UUl.lItl"

concerning Jupiter, its customs, its language,_

and its history.
When the effervescence caused by the"
uncorkin.!!' of the Juuiterian bottle had sub-
 A MESSAGE FROM JUPITER. 17

ISlIl·1ClI eXWllllll:I.1I1Ull,Llle lllt:l·Ugly PUll;::; we uupe-

fully left to the linguistic commission in par-

ticular, and to the ingenuity of man in general.
Meantime' Jupite~ was fulminating missives
to the various nlanets. and in the course of

rated in the city, that on the receipt of the

news all its inhabitants flew to the subter-
ranean retreats, while the aerial voyagers in
·the vicinity sailed out of the way. The bomb

\.A.J..O\..lUY-';:;.L'Vu. l.IU",,,, 1IJ..L!lJ UVJ..U.U J...1~U U.\I'...Ci.LJ.J" u.v.ll..l.V-

lished a splendid hall, destroyed much of its

furniture, and lodged itself deep in the earth.
The. tidings were at once telegraphed to the
Senate. and the self-buried inhabitants informed
 1R TUP TWP10JTV_VT10JTlT 1'1<'1OJTTTRV_

spllere became crowded Wltll aenal manners.

As for the senates, they being in Africa at this
moment, were hurried by tube to tIre spot a
few minutes later. With pleasure we found
4-lu.l: ...." ... n1'£\t>a,,+;nna ...u 'I'Yloa"" ...oCl h",J "",,,,oJ +1'0

We 'Were too earnest to allow our energies to

evaporate into ceremony. The scene needed
no pageants, for in itself it was pregnant with
transporting interest. Our appetite for Jovian

lilon ITUW uur urUlJllt::r lSlIur, UllU J.UUllU 111 lSUl'pueu

us with more documents, more models, more
seeds, and, as formerly, a variety of articles
whose use or import was to us an enigma.
Our dntv now lay in exhibitin!!" these contentF:_
object had been accomplished, we planted the
seeds, handed over the books to the linguistic
commission, and put the other various Jupi-
terian imports into the hands of the savants.
A +..,.,.....,. An-rra 1n4-n.... +1-,,1'\. +l.";,,,rl T"'Yt.~+n"':n,...,, ~n':l

"
volatile citizens was only second to what
recently happened at San Salvador. Happily
the lunar municipal council modulated· the
movement!!! of the multitudes With such

OInew specnnens, new see as, ana new Ins~ru-

menta. ..
A month later the fourth J upiterian postal-
bag reached the world. After being carefully
P.AnlA(J fHr RnTTlA t.iTTlA. it. waR RAAll tn nnint
was at work a mighty array of marine farm-
labourers and marine agricultural fishes. A
spectacle of most tumultuous activity there-
fore ensued when the astronomical sentinels

------ --- -- --- --0--- -- --- -0--

celerity with which their a!!,chors were weighed,

the speed with which their machinery was set
in motion, and the rush eastwards of the
mammoth armada; comprised a visual feast

he would have blushed over his lliad-a

picture which. had it been viewed by Virgil,
he would have written no ~neid, and a
picture which, had it been beheld by Nelson,
their playthings. Thousands of telescopes were
meanwhile pointed towards the ball, which,
·after the e~cape of the vessels, the sub-
marine farm-workers and the fishes, was seen
... ~ ..1~nl.. •• ~~~ ...l..~ ~.~4.~_':' ~_.1 _,_1 ___ ~_1_~l.. ~n

<:>

pendulum the search for the bomb had com-

menced. Ere the Senate arrived it was
found, so that our duty simply lay in opening
the metallic envelope and unpacking its con-

.were puzzles to our chemists. A thousand

chemical compounds were like}Vise sent, in-
..eluding jars of various fluids and solids. In
addition to these, we were favoured with nearly
...... _ ...... .1-_ ....__ ..... _,c _ ..... _1 __.:""..,,1 c.,...,.,....,,..~TV\l"\no o,"t~ ~ ho,._
stufied animals, an aquarium filled with vanous
Jupiterian fishes, and ten thousand cuts, illus-
trating all the features of the Fauna of our
brother world. The fis.hes were deemed by us
+1-.0. ""';1\1-.0.014- n.f -1-1,,1\.01"\. hnnnnC'!+o no h.n.;T\n- +1,.a. ~ ...a~

land, and smashed it to atoms. Its valuable

.
contents nevertheless proved more than a com-
pensation for this damage. On opening it,
indeed, volumes of glee and gladness were

remamaer or tne oomo was nllea Wltn cages ana

pens containing other animals, all of which ~e
found alive. We were at first surprised to find
that it was possible they could be conveyed in
SUI.fpt.v !u) f!'l.r t."hr{)110'h TICIn_!'I.Pl"lnl l"Po-10TII'I' nnt. on
 Man was imbued with felicity over this cir-
cumstance, for he considered that in a few
weeks more the sons of Jupiter would be in-
vading our world. As a testimony of our jubi-

Alas! when we forget that what potency we

may enjoy is lent from the armoury of heaven,
how oft are we reminded .of our innate frailty?
We were rejoicing at the supposed glories in

race ill .J uplter so soon as CIrcumstances pre-

dicated - nay, Providence decreed that the
inter-planetar missives should cease for a while.
So it was that the Jovian gun was hopelessly
·iI<lTYHIll'oil <If: +1,0 vo...u +;TYlO <In OTYl ha""u "UTa"
the world conveyed the news to the telegraphic
ganglia stationed. in each household. As man
had his rejoicings on December 26, 2871, over
the promised joy of the fraternization of the
~::ln~ ~nnn~ l.n ~n~. n~~n:,,4-n.l Tn~ .. n_~ 1 OQ.,.A
 CHAPTER II.
I A.M MADE PRESIDENT OF THE MUNDO-LUNAR

---J::J::-J -- •• - - ----0 --- - - - --------------- - - ---

curiosity caused by the contents of the J upi- .

terian bottles abated. There was still ample
material with which to unseal the lore of this
planet. Thousands of unexplored enigmas in.:

of the by-laws of nature specially tI'amed tor

Jupiter. We discovered that for the planet's
larger size, and its greater distance from the
heat and brilliancy of the sun, Providence had
 solar system to be greatly destitute of light.
So far fro~ this, we found that God had fur-
nished an equivalent to counterpoise the per-
\ spective, for the further the planets were from
.l.1._ " •• _ ..1.1 __ =.. _..1.1 ___ _____ ..1.1.._ .:1 ________ .:I ..1.1.._=_

----- - - - ---.-- - - - . - J • - ---J - J .- ..• - - - - - - - . - - - . -

part of the light dispensed to the earth, in

'reality received a share equally liberal. Her-
schel, which would otherwise have been pre-
scribed -but one -three -hundred -and -sixteenth

peculiaritIes 01 the planet InspIred us WIth

devout admiration.
On till 2876 there was little to chronicle.
No doubt trusi y progress had all the while
haon rr"lo,...nh;"O" I"\'TUTa,..l'lg l?~~lrlo antl ;nnnn_
Though he, therefore, astounded the world at
this time by no sensational wonders, he deserved
none the less applause, for he had ever been at
his post and fought as strenuously in the days
_ p _ ,_ _ • 1 " t- 1 •

- O-~-- --. ~&&_-~~. --_&& -~~~, ~--. ~~ -- -~~

paymaster.
History had, therefore, little to say till its
chanticleer heralded the close of 2876, when
Shakspeare Socrates resigned his chair, that he'

would, be elected in his stead. My heart quaked'

when I found my own name first whispered,
then openly declared, . and ultimately noised
abroad as a candidate. Having just completed'
~~~ l.. •• _.1_~.11.l.. _~~_ T ~~~ ~1~~:l..1~ c~_ ... 1.~ ~.a:~~
·crunes ttymg towards my resldenoo, brInging
crowds of friends and bushels of despatches.
To have read all the missives would have con-
,sumed some days; to have spoken to each of
TY\"I'T ,f;...;n.nl'l~ Tn"",,,lA ho~n. nnnnY\.;.a....1 1"n.,,~o T 4-1,,'O' ...i~'L

~ ~ 4

,and assured me that the finger of circumstances

pointed to me as the successor' of Shakspeare
Socrates.
It soon transpired that the contest lay be-

tne reposItones 01 tions own purposes, ann tnat

men were but voting machines worked by the
mainspring of fore-ordination. In keeping
witlt that noble system of electioneering which
gn l'Ailmlnilg t.n thA hnllnlll' nf nlnilAl'n t,;Tnpg !'Ill
 "p'Rli'JlTnli'lM' n~ 'UTTlI1'nn. T .TTlir.l 'R 'R ....."PTTIU .Tf' 9.Q

. mg WlthmtlmHlatlOn, orIoery, and corrup-

tion. But most shocking of all in the electoral
cauldrons, vice precipitated a base sediment of
doubtful and neutral voters. These, like the
.fah10.l ha+.. ,,+nn.l nn +1,0 frn ..... +~a... E ..... .,,, nf"

-
neutralize which Ithere was only the inefficient
palliative of the ballot.
How pure is the modern method, when there
is no canvassing nor animosity, and where

tneIr malty to neaven ana eartn.

Before the poll, S. W 8.tt and I met in the
moon. Our life-long intimacy and heart-
entwined attachment rendered it a bitter reflec-
tinn tn lll~ th11!'1 RAt. fnrWHrd R.R rivR.1R. H p
4QO THF. TWF.NTY-NINTH CF.NTTTRY.

nence lOrmen greater recommenUatlOns tllan

any I possessed. "Should I not retire?"
I asked.-" No," said he; "man desires us
to stand, that Providence may make His
.PollOl p.p.~"

~ - -
III the three worlds. By 10 o'clock all had
voted on earth. The following hour the state
of the poll as regards the senior world was
.ascertained and published, which showed I

I:IUl:lptllll:1tl, Wll.U':;l1 wu,t! Utll:lpl:llll:lU WllUU. U, UI:ll:lpU,L\,;l1

came from the moonule, showing the voting

there to be nearly equal. At length a bulletin
came from the moon, containing the state of the
lunar Dolline-. The result was at once noted
 PRli'.lnnRl'ITT nF UTTlITnn_ T .ITlIT AR RRPHRT .Ut !l1

Milton t Moon . .
Moon's satellite .
46,326,362
4,841,128
, rWorld 837,170,126
Watt { Moon 40,802,421

-praise hallowed the election, and - -

imparted to
it its due solemnity and importance.
Thus was I by the votes of the great consti-
tuency of humanity, and by the grace of God,

Dy .filS mercyalOue, CUUlU ~ llunouraOlY oe tne

vice-regent of his beloved people. Great as
was the post, it were better to be a door-
keeper in the house of God, with his fear,
than without it to rule three worldR.
32 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENT1JRY.

"LU IIlU JlH! lIlUIHIU. ~~u11uul11a11g- 1111:1 PUi:S.lUU11 .lll

the very vortex of politics, in this the busiest

age in history, he then assumed the humble
vocation of teacher, that he might be enabled
to sow those seeds of instruction. which were-

_Vastly different were the installation solem-

~ities from the turgent twaddle of coronations
in past times. Then ovations were "like the
tale of the idiot, full of sound and fury, signify-
. ... . ...

.&..LLV D1....I ... Y..I..VVO VV.LU.LU.VLJ....lV.LOJI.J.L.l.l5 .l...Ll.J 'Ci.l.Oval.l.LVll lIV

the highest of worldly positions taught me

humility, and reminded me my appointment
proceeded from heavenly patronage, and that
I was not man's sovereign, but God's servant.
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 33

CHAPTER III.
I JOURNEY TO VENUS.

pitching human beings in safety as far as Mars

or Venus. After great searchings of heart,
Cassini Bianchini and myself volunteered to be
the earth's ambassadors to these stars. After
1 _ • _ , .:I, -,_ _ _ J • 'T'). _ ,..

--~- -~--- ---~-7 -- ----- -- ---~-~ -- ~----

planets, would be ready to bear us back to the

earth in due time to spend the evening of our
lives in- the bosom of our families.
In view of our resolutions, many sad scenes
34 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

whom, were mutually so well known.' But the

bitterest tears on my part were shed as I en-
clasped my aged parents. Too well we knew
we were about to be sundered for ever.

oy WhlCll the two planets were advlsed regard-

ing our intentions. We witnessed, moreover,
the trial shooting of the blank bombs to both
worlds, and saw placed· beyond doubt the
ClO"'11'1"~+'T I"\f.4-1. . 0, CI"tTa4-.o.rn nnrlO'l'" TlTh;nh TI'T.o. 'UY.o.,....o +n.

Our every connexion with the earth being

thus essentially abscinded, Jan. 16, 2877, saw
one-half of the great household of man stationed
around the Cotopaxi cannon to witness the
carnage was driven mto the Iron volcano from
which it was so soon destined to be blown into
another world. No celebrations were needed.
The simple spectacle was so touching, that no
OI'C'TQ ~.o.'U7'£l,:t ;4- £),V,(l,.£),T'\4- +1-.,..£'\.",...h 0 In.,,,,o rt.+ +n.n .... C"

see him in the flesh, and while yet his image

lingered on our vision, to realize that he .had
been borne away millions of miles. The ex-
plosion itself, by its resounding roar, declared

nrea, ana our DrOtO'er now aeparteu, line

assemblage was dismissed with the speed of a
dissolving view.
The following day we learned that our
hl'Ot.hm· hnCl !':f1.fp.lv l'p.R.l\hp.CI hi!': Clp,!':t.inR.t.ion_
36 THE TWENTY-NINffi CENTURY.

lllliO line venwuan vanaan. .dS ill line IOrmer case

prayer and praise formed the truest commemo-
rative solemnities. Salutes, salvos, and the
shams and show of ceremony, would have been
Ra~rilege unon flO sa~red an o~~asion_ For mv-

placed it above the great gaping tunnel of the

gun. A few more beats of my sorrow-pierced
heart, and the imposing spectacle formed by
the on-looking millions was to me obliterated

D.1!:;llOt.J. AllVU "LI.'CILL ..L "c.w;, au '" \..I..LOlJQu,'-.I1:' V.L

thousands of miles from the world. Looking

out of the port-holes of my vehicle, I beheld it
only a small moon-like body. As if by magic,
the e;reat muster of mankind which I had
 - -
portance of man himself shrank in my estima-
tion as I beheld the wondrous metamorphosis.
What is the world, mused I, to the eye of
superior beings but the kennel of mannikins?

~on- u,uoo~~uo ~VVAI:I a.1I ll1.] ll1.UIIU\:a Oa..LIIU, a.J.J.\.L ' "

few languishing thoughts of home, and of those

I had, peradventure, left for ever, I'went to the
prow of my vessel, and looked out upon Venus.
I tried to realize I should soon be one of its

universal constituency. Standing upon an

antipodes of feeling from those stinted, stunted,
weazen-souled poetettes of the past, who, whisk-
ing up dirty, besmeared sentiments, arrogantly
J. '1 ,
a liege, not of a paltry plot in a starlet, but a
citizen of the boundless realms of Almighty
God.
As hours rolled on, I, though still beyond

'\A..L,.,"UI.LJ.\J,.;;], ..... , u J lIJ..LV UI.l.\A. V.I. ~J I./V.L-.;Jg,\.IV.t'-.;I, ,"-,VU..UA.

ascertain the unspeakable magnificence of its.

scenery. At length I arrived at the due point
wherein it was necessary for me to burst the
shell in which I was enclosed, and by balloon

gence in my balloon butterfly, I managed with

all the ease of an experienced inter-stellar
mariner. The dangers of my journey were
now e~ded. I was entrenched in security.,
1\11" _____ 1_ .3 __ L_ 1 ___ : _ _ :1_L: __ _______ ~ L ____ .3_
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 39

Meanwhile, Venus swelled upon my V1SlOn~

until its disc merged into a ball, and the ball
into a mighty world. The reahns below me
became so expanded as to thrust beyolld the
:range of eyesight great tracts of the smround-
mg regions. A portion of Venusian land, of a
few hundred miles in diameter, now appeared
larger than did the whole of that world but an
hour earlier. 'fo the easily duped ocular
organs Lucifer seemed rushing downwards to
overwhelm me ~n ruin, but to the trustworthy
eye of reaSOD) I was. quickly yot cautiously,
precipitately yet carefully, fl:ring down upon
Lucifer. Consulting my log~Iines and aneroids,
I found it was now time to slacken my pace.
I therefore stopped my engines, applied the
ultra~aerial drag, and graduated rpy speed so as
to bring me to the shores of the planet. I now
took my telescope and looked over the bu1~
warks of my craft, and 10 ! I saw what appeared
to ,be millions of angels in lllid~air! Amaze~
ment~struck, I did not at fil'st realize that those
:in such hright array were the Venusians await~
iug my arrival. Though my soul hud been
making its entrance into beaven, I eould not
ha;ve imagined that the spectacle could have
40 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

been more magnificent. Amid the· turmoil of

my sensations, my eyes gloated upon the
country below, which appeared to be the
perfect embodiment of a Paradise. Millions of
beauties crowded my vision, until I was lost
in a maze of admiration. I espied lands to
which the grandest prospects of my native
world were insipid. They were emblazoned
with colours so brilliant, so pure, and so har-
moniously blended, that I thought man's con-
ception of the heights of art and the splendour
of extra-terrestrial nature utterly untutored.
I thought the richest tints known to man were
dingy and dull, as I surveyed the gorgeous
georama. I was also entranced with the
clearness of the ether. The outlines of
hills thousands of miles away were as sharp
to my eyes a~ the furrows on my fingers. No
fallacious dimness veiled the mountains, no
dubious mists enshrouded the valleys. The
scenery was as serene and lucid as truth.
As I thus contemplated so much at which to
wonder, tears overflowed their eyelid banks
when I considered I belonged to a race whose
staple trades for thousands of years had been
war, rapine, and robbery, and whose annals
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 41
were so long a reflex of the plots of a helt In
my contrition I felt that all men were Cains,
'branded with the die of sin) and unworthy of
the sympathy and friendship of the sinless
races of the other stars) and still less of the
mercy of the Most High. I was now about to
appear as a monster of sin among a righteous
race. Shame would almost have made me
retreat to my native world, "lhile crllciated
by these feelings, I entered the Venusian
atmosphere, Feasts of joy now regaled my
senses. Below, tho bright world was brighter;
above, the dark firmament had become azure.
The beauties of refleetion and refraction now
dawned npon me~ and before their glories the
stars had modestly retired. rrides of enravIsh-
'ing music flooded my ears and enraptured
my soul. If the spectacle reminded me of a
Paradise, even more so dId the ineiTable
'harmony. It dealt a blow to my pride in the
.art. as taught by mankind. I saw that the
best of OUI composers had only been groping
.amia the elements of the divine science, I lla{l
hitherto imagined that my tonow~men had
reached the pinnacles of music, but I tbundthey
had only scaled one of the crags at its hase.
42 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

At this moment I was steeriuo- ·0

towards the·
centre of the great thl'Ong, for tllere I belleld
one whose appearance led me to suppo~e he'
was the Moses of the Venusian Israel. I was-
right" True) no gaudy ornamontation, DO.'
jewelled erownj no sceptroj and no throne?
dedared his offine) for I found that neither pride?
pomp, nor vanity had even a name in the
planet's dictionary, His intellectual and bene-
volent features were the best scutcheon Of his
authority. With my tear-sealed eyes rivetted-
upon him) I continued to descend.· In a few
seconds he boarded my' vessel. Ho then
embraced me with tenderness and a:lfection.
Intense joy, chequered 'with intense grief,
buffeted me at this moment. I saw welcome
imprinted on the faces of all, yet it was accom-
panied with so significant evidence of their
sorrowing amuzement at my un-Vcnus-like un-
sightliness; as transfixed my soul with shame.
Such was the force of the vexation, and _per-
chance disappointment, which infected the
great myriads, that their insignia. of delight.
drooped J their music ceased, and nothing was·
seen but. the s:ymhols of sorrow, nothing heard
but sobbing and sighs. .. Salra pontro I" and
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 43-
" Salro S(J/!~d1'O!" '\V'ere the exclamations which
meantime I heard on all sides,-words whose
meaning' I afterwards found to be ,;, Alas 1 he
is blind l "-" ...4Jas! he is deaf! j, Pontro, how-
cvcri hatlreferenee to that spiritual amaurosis by
which I sawllot the ineOl'poreal world) and sandro
to that spiritual want by which I heard not the
music of the spirits of the invisible Cl'eation.
The flood of my affliction was overwhelming
as I beheld that the sad metamorphosis from
gladness to grief had been caused by tho marks
of sin which were endorsed upon my featW'os.
Nor could I wonder at the distress of those
around J when I yonsidered the circumstances,
for as I viewed with pardonable envy their
matchless beauty and surpassing symmetry,
how could they but behold w-i.th tears the
woeful badges of ruin and sin? For the first
time they contemplated the mournful sight of
a heF),d crowned with age's snows) shoulders
bent by the load of years, and a face which
betrayed life's autumn} and which Time's
p10ughshare had completely furrowed, -be-
cause~ unlike me, all 1rYere east in the mould
of perfeet beauty, and all were in the bloom
of a perennial youth"
44 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

Vain man! you have so oft aped the pmwock;

you have strutted about puffed up with pride
within, and caparisoned with tinsel "'j,vlthout;
you have so oft, by your gait and gaiety, your
conceits and deceits '\lour
j
01
millinery and man~
~

millinery, challenged admiration; behold in

my reception in Hesperus the imperfections of
manJs tabernacle, and the peljury of his pre~
tensions! Wben Venusians thus beheld in the
human frame, with its traces of ruin, and its
signs of debasement, an object for tears, what,
mused I, must be'the feelings of angels, when
they regard man's precious eternal soul, wor-
shipping and loading with offerings its pitial)le
mutilated tenement?
My heart would have heen :flint had I
witnesseq, unmoved a sinless race weeping at the
tokens of death and desolation they had seen
m man. :My eyes lTJ.ercifuHy showered out
their tears to extinguish the grief-conflagration
in my soul. Yet it was a consolation that
their tear-streams flowed from the heart-springs
of pity and love. "With genial sweetness,
which was balm to my feelings} they addressed
me, and though I knew not their tonglle J their
musical articulation was a language in itself-a
 I JOURl!o"EY TO VENUS. 45·

language which bore a most impressive mean-

ing. So mellifluous was their intonation, that
I at first ~imag:ined they were singing. So
euphonious were their accents, so melodious
their m.odu1ations, that I thought the most
dulcet warblings I had heard on earth wore in
comparison hoarse and harsh, and the most
exquisite vocalization guttural and gruff. Before
the flow of the inimitable muslc·elocution which
beat upon me from aU sides, I was glad to keep
my tongue a prisoner, lest it might betray
still further at such a moment man's ruined
capabilities.
I DOW re-surveyed the myriads by whom I
was encompassed. Had I known their speech,
I would have asked where were the aged, or
were all who came to welcome me in their youth,
unaware as I then was that bent shoulders and
tottering limbs, infirmities and impaired senses,
were here unknown; and that all the inhabitants
were lIoses, whose eyes did not dim, and whose-
natural force remained unabated 0 'Vh~n a
solitary exile in the mOOll, I believed afflictions
had sunk my 80ul to the very zero of' humility;
but 10! I now found I had to be abased to still
lower depths. Could I fail to be, when I saw
 46 'l'm: 'l'WKNTY~NINTH CENTURY•

. how unspeakably above man's conception was

Hodls handiwork when not besmeared. and
disfigured by sin ?-when I saw that in the earth
God had shown but a sample of his wisdom,
and reserved his masterpieces for other wOl'lds?
Hero I witnessed the noblest cl'eations of
Providenco, pure as they had come from His
hand. I saw iu the eitizens the untarnished
and ullIDutilated unages of the Most High~ I
was inebriated with admiration, and yet over-
powered by a sense of the depth to which man
had fallen. Like Paul on his way to Damascus,
I wa.s blinded by the light of heavenly wisdom.
Perceiving the goal of purity) I was humbled
in the dust, when I saw how distant therefrom
was poor man, 'Vhen the grief-clouds were
so far dispelled, my senses were feasted with
Supt)1.'~earlhly fascinations, lIfusic of angelic
beauty volleyed its hearl-piercing chords)
ambrosial odours wafted their fragrance, whilo
my eyes descried groves, glebes, and arboU!'Jii,
extenmnD' o as far as the horizon, and . with a
distinctness which made me imagine I was
endued with superhuman ocular powers. I
revelled in the joys of the visual banquet,
without seeking to know the cause. At length
 I ,JOUR~'El\." TO VENUS. 47
I observed, for the first time, 'hrith due wonder,
that O1,ving to the propinquity <If this world to
the sun, daylight here had a brilliancy \vhich
would have shamed the brightest noontide at
the ea.rth's equa.tor. rro learn the effect of
the scene with the naked eyes; I doffed the
.speetacles wilien I had up to this eonsio.ored
necessary on account of the exees:;ive sunshine,
and marvelled to find they had only l,oen a
~ of

restraint upon my enjoyment of the Divine

prospect. So far from my organs of sight being
·overwhelmed by the intense light) it emhued
them with a power which they had never
enjoyed in my mother world. Sueh was its
purity, that in place of weal'},ng the eyes1ike
the befouled worldly daylight, it armed them
with new strength. Looking up to the sun
itse1i, I was able to gaze upon it with eyes
which betraycd not a tremor. What a serene
scene I then beheld! The sun's increased sIze,
compared to what it is as seen from the eRrth:i
can afford terraneans no conceptions of its
increased effulgence. Directing my. attention
thereafter to this country in the morning start
~y joy was stimulated w~en I experieneed
fully the power and scope of my unassisted
48 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

VISIon. To the very verge of the .~orizon,

every object, though no larger than a man's
hand, appeared with a distinctness which
almost ma.d.e my mind. ga.insay my eyos.
Trees hundreds of miles distant I could
not only discern, bu.t enumerate their very
branches and leaves. FOl' the first time
I gazed upon a prospect guiltless of obscu-
rities, and upon a perspective without dim-
ness.
, In the gTeat georama, my I'etime pictured
myriads of untold charms, but they looked in
vain for masonic fabrications. I thereupon
correctly concluded the salubrity of the climate
renderod houses superfluous, and that Flora
alone suffieed to supply the inhabitants with
shelter. Nor was this a disparagement to the
citizens, for the supel'ntcrranean luxuriance of
the vegetation supplied all the exigencies and
luxuries of domiciles. Day and night they
were exposed to the weather) for the weather
had no asperities to make exposure hurtful.
Coughs and eolds) aches and agnes, rheums and
sickness~ were unknown, because Venus knew no
baneful fluctuations. of temperature, no malaria,
and no miasms; and because ita inhabitants
 I ,JOURNEY TO YENTS.

possessed no weak links in the chain of their

organization.
Meanwhile. millions were escorting me to the
, W

. subjacent floral city. Here, trees 7 shrubs, and

flowers displayed such paradisaic beauty, as
made me view the fertility of our world as but
lEt shorl advance from sterility. Than the bowers
made of such botanic paragons: imagination
could not have planned more perfect shrines
of loveliness, nor convenienee suggested more
complete nests of,comfort. But what surprised
me most was the sight 9f spring1 summer, and
autumn arm-In·arm. The plants and tl'ees had
the peculiarity of being concurrently evergreen,
ever-flowering} and ever-fruiting. Buds, blos-
soms) and fruits adorned the same branches?
each displaying the richest tints of heaven'g
palette. "Having arrived in this Ed~n, devo~
tional exerolses were commenced. My boiling
emotions in beholding a world of saints engaged.
in thanksgiving found no vent until tho sluices
of my eyes were opened. But it would be as
difficult for me to describe as to torget tho scene.
The sun now set) but) strange to say, no night
ensued. Nor did the great congregation dis-
perse. With unabated fervour the observances
VOLo III, E
50 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

proceeded. They were entirely musical, for

music I afterwards found was the language
medium through which the praise of Venusians
was borne to heaven. So enravishing were the.
strains, that the long services seemed to have
magically obliterated my ideas of time. On the
wings of music I was wafted nearer to glory
than ever I was in my life's pilgrimage. As
for the VCDusians, their devoutness seemed to
deepen as hour followed hour. But) alas!
my earthliness at times made my eyes, despite
the sublime musical fascinations, wander after
1Nonders. To me the advance of nightfall -with-
out the approach of darkness formed a pheno-
menon whose singularity seduced my attention.
As the sun set, I beheld that the Voousian moon
acquired amazing brilliancy; that Mercury, the
evening star's evening star, donned a wondrous
:radiance; and that the earth and moon them~
selves acquired a marvellous splendmlI'. Corus-
cations besides so illuminated the sky that .
artificial lights were unnecessary.
I had mat veIled up to this point howjt was
the Venusians} blessed with such amazing intel-
lects) had not framed a systc~ such as that in .
the world to produce artificial day during the
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 51
night; but I now beheld the reason whieh
rendered this superfluous.
Meanwhile} though my spirit entered 'with de-
"Vout fervour into thev8spers, my flesh was weak
The impt:lI'lOUS tyranny of sleep, indeed~ began
to assert its sway. I notieed with amazement
the amazement of those around, as they oh~
served the premonitory symlltoms of my sur~
render to the twin brother of death. I knew
not, forsooth, that slumber was unknown to the
citizens of this star, and that they were now
about to ohserve what was to them unnatural.
Possessing, as they did, a mysterious knowledge
of our planet, and of man's ruined estate, they
knew sleep was a heritage of the faU, and that
one-third .ofthe time of human life was stolen
by this strange power. Accordingly, when they
saw r was about to succumb to an influence so
subtle and un-Venus-like, they ereded a plat-
fonn and covered it with flowers as mv couch"
~ ~

The structure was so lofty and so steep, that

under the labour of ascending it I sweated and
breathed heavily. rro theVenusians these symp-
toms appeared so l~nomalous, that they were
struck ",ith horror and amazemento They
anxiously rushed to my assistance, and made
- 52 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

signs for me to explain the cause why my face

had undergone such a strange change in colour,
and my breathing in it. rapidity; and the
nleQ.ning of the singular pbenomenon of the
fluids of my body bursting through my skin,
and standing in such 'large dl'ops upon my fore-
head and face. By dint of much difficulty I
made them understand that though fatigued
I was well, and that what appeared unnatural
to them wa..o; natural to me.
Music was now resumed, amid whose en-
:ravishments I was floated into the realms of'
somnolence. The singular metamorphosis from
life into the semblance of death was, I after-
wards learned, viewed with tears. As my
features relaxed, as my limbs became supine"
and as my eyelid gates were f,rradually closed,
they saw a mournful proof of man's mortality.
To thell" eyes the phenomena seemed so ab-
normal, that what in earth would have been
viewed as the eyidences of health, inspired the
Venusians with grief. Their love of insight
and philosophy was such, that they eagerly
watched all the phenomena of' sleep. Unre-
mittingly they pursued their ob8ervatio~ upon
my pulse, my respirations] and the tempemture
 I JOURNEY TO ""ENUS. 53
,of my body. When the lulling eclipse of my
senses and will had ended, and my eyes were
unc1ll"tained, I was astonished to find I was still
surrounded by iui-lUInerabIe multitudes, and
that my awaking was evidently begetting un m

accountable pleasuro. .Preans thrilled the air.

IThe skies were impregnated with n~usic. I did
not then comprehend the cause of the rejoicings 1
but 1 afterwards learned it was because the
Venusites, as they had seon in sleep the tokens
-of the mortality of man's body, witnessed in my
emergence from somnolence a symbol of the
resurrection of his soul. Immediately after
this ono of them presonted mo with a picture,
in which I was represented asleep on the
·couch I had just left, surrounded by the Vcnus-
:lans in the distance, and by a cloud of angels
close at hand. What was my surprise to :find
that the sketch was not only a maI'vel in artistic
taste, but showed that the angelic host by which
I was envlI'oned was composed of many of
my friends, who had cI'ossed death'g river and
entered the world of spirits. rrhese singular
facts explained to me that things invisible to us .
were '''-lsible to the Venusians, and that they
had communion with the inhabitants of the
54 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

unseen world., amJ.. had. beheld with pleasure

those spirits who, during the night, had guarded
my soul and guided my slumbers.
All this day my every movement was made
the object of scrutiny. At length circumstances
thrust me into a most grotesque predicament.
Hour having followed hoUl', during which I .
was in constant and strong expectation of be-
holding a magnificent banquet-a banquet with
a whole world for guests-a banquet crowned
with the fruits of a paradise and tho ambrosia
of a hea:ven)-I at 1ength hegan to see that tho
Venusians were thinking neither of feasting
themselves nor entertaining me. My dis-
appointment became galling and my hunger
unendurable. Through lack of food I was
feeling faint. My growing weakness, therefore,
animated me with cOlli'age to plead, for the first
time in my life, the cause of my stomach.
Having signified my condition, I was supplied
with victuals, but in such small quantity, and
amid' such inquisitiveness on the part' of the
on-1ooking IDillio1l8~ that I was overpowered
with bashfulness. lfy prying friends, unaware-
of my annoyance, aggravated it by making
(werv mouthful I swallowed the source of
of
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 55

examination, Each had. a telescope levelled

at my mouth-each seemed. to weigh to a
gramme the amount of aliment I ingested, and
the number of jaw-movements I made. :My
uneasiness fruited. into ehagrin when I saw
that ere I had taken half-a-dozen bites the
curiosity of my friends had dilated into
" .
amazement. Having quickly disposed of my
meagre meal, my distress was augmented when
I considered that while those around viewed
me as a gourmand; the little I had oaten had
only served to whet my appetite; Hunger at
length outfaced my shyness. With bashful
boldness I made significant but very undigni-
fied gestures, gesticulations, and grimaces, such
as pointing to my. month amI laying my hands
ou my stomach, to !lenote jny cravings were
still unappeased. I blushed deeply as I beheld
the astof!islmwnt and almost disgust whi~h my
seeming. greed had excited, A multitudo of
emotions exploded within my soul when· I saw
tha~ the flush which pervaded my features had
inspired the Vcnusians with horror and sorrow.
In a world where shame was unknOW!l; shame
was now for the first time witnessed, Still mvof

wishes were immediately gratified" Another

56 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

dish was supplied to me much larger than tho

former, but still 80 small that I again drmrned
my reserve und dignity in my sense of hunger.
'Vith coy timidity, I :repeat~~d the former
awkward pantomimic antics to betoken that
the second meal was still unequal to my
appetate.
'q L pon th' ] d o.f" mterJec
,. IS a con • t"IOns
arose from the multitud.es. Nevertheless I wa.s
indulged by having placed beforo me an
enormous stock of viands, The surprise of the
mighty convocation was now at a climax ..
They stared upon me aghast as I proceeded
with my repast. Each morsel I chewed was
watched with an ardour as if my life had de-
pended upon the performance. All the feats
of gastronomy on the earth could not have
created one-thousandth part of the interest
which was engendered by the partaking of my
first feast in this foreign planet.
I suspected from the cireumstances the
frames of the Venusians were so constituted
that sustenanee was superB uous; but I after*
wards found I was partly wrong. I learned
nutrition formod such a subordinate .
function
'
of their economy that they had only it very
small refection _once in the month. Accord-
 1 JOURNEY TO VENUS, .57
ingly the citizens here naturally, in their esti-
mate of man, docketed him as a glutton.
Inexplicable it was to them that an impaired,
rough-hewn creation like man should devour
three meals daily, and gobble more foofl and
guzzle more liquids at one diet than would a
Venusian in 11 year. But primary sensations
seal an impression of wonder on the Inind only
because their causes arc misunderstood or sub-
understood. In this instance, a few minutes
sufficed to evaporate tho amazement over man's
feasting idiosyncmRies. It was smm that man's
voracity was tho result of tho excossive waste
to which his body is liable. They saw his
tissues are so frail, and his corporeal machinery ,
80 shattered, that it is only by ravenous 1'0-
• oJ

freshments his system is kept ill repair,

Of my sumtisc that the inhabitants here
were always congregated I 'ilV-aS disarmed this
afienlOon. After sublime psalmodic cere-
monials, the mighty meeting dispersed. I was
now left under tho tutelago of Veritas, the
President of this Paradise. Him I accom-
panied to his home, which I found to be a
simple series of bowers reposing on the hanks'
(If a l~l,k.e. At the' first glimpse I received of
58 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

Venusian waters~ my admiration was taken by

storm. Such was their unearthly limpidity,
their unnatural tmnspareney, that the fish with
which they teemed were as distinctly-visible as
the birds skipping over the waves, and the
loeh's bottom as legibly obvious as its surfaee.
" Surely," said I j U the waters of my native
wor1d. are solutions of filth and mud, when
even its purest streams are so turbid and
opaque! 'J
I now commenced the acquisition of the
Vermsian language. With a sweating brm.v j
a sighing bosom, and aching eyes) I breasted-
its difficulties and mastered more and more of
the territory of its dictionary. To my tutors]
Experientia and Bonitas, endued as they
woro) like all Venusians, with a higher intelli-
gence, keener pereeptions, more hrilliant imagi-
nations, and more powerful memories, than
stolid dull man, my progress naturally appeared
slow and unsatisfactory. rrho powerful hrakes
of human debility clogged the wheels of my
study. \-\"'hile the Venusopolitans could work
with impunity interminably day and night, from
week to week and year to year, the enthral~
menis I inherited from Adam chained me down·
 I JOURNEY TO n::ems,
to only a few available hOllIs in the twcnty-
four. Venusians had more working hours in a
week than I in a 1Iwnth. Full often my botoved
tutors mourned that mv day was so mutilated
" u

1)y the exigencies of sleep, recreation, and

feasting. So deep was their s:J7ulpathy over
my inaptitude for sustained mental work, that,
'with tears in my eyes) I pleaded I was a legatee
to man's stupidity as well as his sin. lhit my
teachers needed no plea, for well they knew
my hebetude was beyond the area of my will.
Job's patience would have palled befDre theirs.
IJ:'hey persevered in their 'task 80 assiduously,
that their zeal could not hut kindle mine .. Inex-
pressible was my delight when, a few days later,
my tutt;m:l placed the Venusian Bible in my
hands, and told me that henceforth my lessons.
would be from its pages. 'Vith fervour I, night
and day) roamed through this hoavenly iHu-
. mined volume. By tho study: my frigid piety
was fanned into flame. On no book could I
have 8P well whetted my linguistic capabilities.
In three weeks, indeed: I had acquired so toler-
able an idea. of tho languago~ that I could l,vith
easo converse with my fi·iends.
'Though I had for weeks been suhjected to;
,60 'fIlE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY,

it system of drudgery, my tasks were ultimately

pleasures, In the Venusian Scriptures I
luxuriated in treasures of heavenly precepts
and d.i vine revelations. There _I fQurtd the
sweetest foretastes over I enjoyed of the world
to come. Ip. tho classics, moreover) what super-
human edifices of mental grandeur, oloquence,
and poetry I discovered! I blushed to find our
Shakspoaros out.. Shakspearod, and our Newtons
out-N ewtoned. I saw that the brightest stars
of the wOl;ld were nebulre compared with
the humblest Venusian. Illusions, delusions,
casuistries, and sophistrios, were rocks upon
which it was impossible for them to stumble.
Folly, incapacity, and ignorance, being the
children of sin and sectarianism, and bigotry
and party strife being the progeny of mental
obscurity, were unknown. Their writings were
crystallizations of lIIrisdom ami truth" 1 saw
,I

that the d~oss of myihology, the forgeries of

fallacy! the pinchbeck glitter of subtloty, and
the pollutions of error, were only indigenous
to the sinful soil of our world.
In antiquity I was surprised to find that tho
race greatly outstripped that of Adam. Venusian
history was venerable when the earth was an
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 61
uninhabited waste, shrouded in impenetrable
fogs. The years here were callo(l orhits) and
the months zodiacs. :4Lt tho present I £:mnd
the calendar proclaimed the date-Orhit 168321 1
Zodiac 8th. Viewed from this stand-point the
human race is therefore only in its infancy-
a elreUIDstarwe which increased my veneration
for the wisdom and knowledge of tbis planet.
Touohlng the lanhruago) such did I find its·
conciseness; preciseness~ and simplicity, that I
viewed the mother tongue of our mother earth
as but a jungle of vel'biage, a morass of bar-
barisms and pleonasms, '\fords oft focussed
the meaning of phra.ses. One lliOIiosyllable oft
embodied a sentiment. On an average it ro;
quir(1d eio-ht
o lines of the tcrranean. tonrrue
0
for
the translation of one of the Venusian. The
language formed a menstruum in which thoughts
could not only be expressed with surprisin.g
speed, but perfect perspicuity. What a multi-
plicity of strifes, heresies, wars, enmities, family
quarrels, and· lawsuits, :mused I, would have
been prevented in our world had man possessed
a language with words so lucid and lucent.
Equally expressive and explicit was the scien-
tific nomenclature, Compared to it man's.
62 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

appeHations are vulgar nicknames. The planets,

for instance, the Venu.sia1l8 had wisely classified
according to their astronomical precedence"
Mercury was, accordingly; t.ermed the first, or
Primus; Veuug the second, or Seeundus; the
earth the third, or Tertius; and 80 on to the
prednct planet, or IDtimus, In the colloquy
bet.wIxt Bonitas and myself~ in which I was
furnished'VI-ith this informat.ion, my ignorance
and stupidity frequently precipitated me into
humiliating positions. }fy tutor ha'lring re-
marked, U I have told you what has heen our
christening of the members of the solar family,
what has been yom's ?" I confessed that man
had impiously designated them after blackguards
-and vi11ains 7 and that he had named this sinless
world after a sinful whore. Afterwards J when
I spoke of the inter~planetar spaces as ({ regions
of nihiliLy t he said, U Speak not thu~" These
realms are highways teeming with spirits of
t.he lU1seen world." I was again caught trip-
ping when I spoke of certain things being
., fortuitous," and othel's f& not natural."
H Chance/, said he t H neyer existed, and
nothing ever happened 01' will happen either
unnatural or supernatm'al Never agam use
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 63

those hlind and blinding words, Such terms

are contraband to tr'llth~s vocabulary."
Transcending man. in mental strength, the
Secundines also possessed a greater number. of
.senses and more acute powers of ohser.vation
and sensation. rl'hey could descry with the
naked eye what I could only grasp by te]e~
scopic aid; they could hear sounds unassisted
which I could only distinguish by the aUTO-
scope. In addition to the fiye senses ..they
enjoyed in common with man? they inherited
many others, Byyirtue of these superhuman
powers they could converse with the spirits of
the unseen world. Divine revelations such as
thosC'V'ouehsafed to the patriarchs by tho medium
{Jf dreams and signs were made to the inhabit-
ants directly by a hidden power, which I eould
not comprehend, and which to man's inferior
intelligence must ever1 I fea1\ remain a,
mystery. 'This heavenlyenaowment forms a
link between them and the world. ahove. It
renders the translation of their friends to
heaven no separation. It is a bridge whieh
obliterates the gulf between the seen and tho
unseen, and between time and et.ernity.
About this time I discovered another instance
64 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY•

.of their intollectual adroitness. I found they

could solve the most diffieult ealculations by
means of mental arithmetic. As an example of'
this power, I asked Bonitas how many changes
could be rung on 312 bells, when he immedi-
ately supplied me with the correct answer.
'Vliile I was in Vonus, indeed: I nevor required
to cipher. If I had a diffieult eomputation, I
had but to lay it before a Venusian child, when
I was f01't:hwith nITllishecl with tho solution~
'Vonderful to say, this amazing celerity in
counting was conjoined to infa.llible accuracy.
Logarithms, fluxions, and the differeritial or
integral calculus, were no more to them than the
alphabet to us.
By reason of the mystical union of those in
heaven with those on Hesperus, I found the
citizens Ilossessod a knowledge of many things
'lilthich to us were inscrutable" Revelations I
read in their Scriptures which, though to them
clear as noon-day, were to me inexplicable.
H Child," said my tutors, "man's mentaI"vision

ca.nnot catch those truths. Confine thyself to

what thy mind can master. Heaven did not
intend tho mole t{} grasp such a mighty eyeful
as the eaglc/' Even keeping within the safe
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 65
boundaries of this adviee) I found unbou.nded
scope for researdl among the Seeundine dassics.
I learned that many worlds were older than
the earth, and many younger; that at present
many worlds were stm unborn-some had only
seen their first day, others were in the g-rada.-
tions on till the fifth day, and others still in
course ,of being furnished for their Adams and
Eves; while others, like ours, had entered upon
their histories, The creation of man and' OUT
earth was an event so far fi'om l)cing unique or
unprecedented in the volu.me of time, tha.t
God was ever raising new systems from nothing
and creating new racos. l\fyriads of cognate
important truths, yet unascertained by man,
I gleaned daily.
While we were so totally ignorant of Venus,
I was super~amazed to find that Venus pos-
sessed not only a knowledge of our affairs, but
actually understood many facts eoneerning us
of which we ourselves were uninformed. I
stumbled upon a volume which caused· more
tears to rain from my eyes than ever had irtllen
from them in any sorrow tempest. It taught
me more in a few hours than in tho nether
world I· had acquired in months. It com~
VOL. m. F ,
06 THE T\VEXTY-XIXTH CEXTIJRY.

prised the chronicleM of he11 1 a description of

it.s territories} tables with an account of its
population 1 and its accession!; during different
ages; and a nunlber of maps illustrative of
infernal geography. The author "was a Secun-
dine who had by divine instructions descended
into Hades} travelled through its realms, noted
its scenes, and learned its sad anna18~ that he
might unfold the tale to the citizens of Hes-
perus. In I>erusing the book, I felt as if I
endured the tortures of which I read. -O",er-
llOrrid for human minds} I did not and could
not undertake its translation. A deep study
of its tales and details would have boon to'
plant a hell in my own breast. Super-ttagical
and heart~rending were the enunciations and
denunciations of human guilt contained in this
terrible volume. ~Iany men whom the world
had in the past petted and fondled a,.q its best
sons, and viewed as the cream of mankind, were
depicted here as the scum of hell; and thousands
who had sealed the titular ladders of the
church, whereof the devil was the carpeIlter,
were I)ainted here groaning· and gro'VeUing in
Gehenna's deepest pits.
Entering the sad abodes of despair, the
 I ,TOURNEY TO VENUS.

Socundil1e saw they were, as described by

pocts) the regions of' everlasting night and un-
quenchable fire-fire having heat without light,
and flames without lambency.
'"
In the precincts ,yere those who had been
snared by the seducing baits of idleness, pride,
vanity, greed} gold, and gluttony. According
to their offences, so were their penalties. Un-
satiated and unsatiable hunger unappeased
j

and unappeasable thirst, alternate heats and

.colds, from which there was no shelter, watch-
ings in which thero was no hope of sleep, and
pains for which there was no opiate, were tho
scourges reserved for the indolent. Serpent-
like, the vain and proud fed on dust. rrheir
heads were no longer crowned with manly
dignity u.pon their shoulders, and their shoulders
were bent and ossified towards the earth.
Multitudes ,were alternately weltering in mud
and sweltering among red~hot marl, who once
lolled among the pseudo~grandeurs of the
world. Standing when in the flesh on those
pedestals of vanity, ancestral pride and entailed
nicknames; making thoir cbief studies game,
games, and gaming; allowing to be drained
into the jaw-box of luxury those forces which
68 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENT1JRY.

should have reaped com and made raiment,

and monopolizing grounds for murderous sports
whereon should have been planted factories r
farms, and villagesf-they were now mere curb-
stones, over which walked their former retainers
and drudges. Epicures ravod incessantly
from the pains of unceasing gouts; rheums,
cramps, and colies. Sycophants lay smothered
amid the nauseous fulsome fare they had admi-
nistered to their superiors. Misers, buUock-
like, had their hew hanging earthwards; their
eyes, whose food in the world was gold, were
the scats of inflammations, cancers, and neu-
ralgias. Spendthrifts, and aU who in the world
had sauntered in the gardens of pleasure, were
now in dungeons, where they were dammed in
and damned, and where they were harrowed
by the keen fangs of ungratified and agonizing
appetites. }Iany were chained to their .tomb"
stones which, through the pride of their friends t
had been larded with silly flatteries and
abominable lies. N emesis had supplanted with
deformities the graees of those whose beauties
in the Hesh had been the gins which had led
to the unsightliness of their souls. A most
ghastly form among a hideous arr,ay of harri-
 I JOURNEY TO '''ENDS. 69
dans thus hailed the Secundine :-" I am Helen
.of Troy; witne~s my retrihution; while the
world for centuries saw me mirrored in the
lliad as the most beautiful of all damsels, I
was all the while the ugliest of the ugly. W 08
upon beauty; though the seal of heaven 1 it is
the bait of helL"
,Another disfigured figure thereafter thus
accosted the "Visitor :-" Behold in me Cleo-
patra; in life I tenanted the most lovely of
forms! in this awful deathless death I am
shrouded in the habilaments of a fiend," A
leader of fashion, now dressed in the rags
{)f scorn and shame, eonfessed, "In life my
raiment was to me what the waters of Bethlehem
were to D~nrid" To furnish my wardrobe full
many sparkling eyes were dimmed and full
many noble forms were sent to a premature
'grave""
Tho visitor is next con.:&onted by a miser,
'who declared th~t before his death he had
~ntel'ed in.to a solemn pact "ith. sundry priests,
by which, in return for the revorsIon of his
.great wealth: he had been promised that his
soul would gain an entrance into Paradise,
.after it had ridden quarantine for a certain
70 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTIJRY.

timo in tho roads before heaven's havon caned

purgatory.
Evon in this 1east heUish portion of hell the
scene wrung pity from the tender heart of the
Secundine. •• I gleaned;" said he, Ii in one
sad glanco, tho sinners of thirty generations, '
who had performed on the lower octaves of
guilt. They were scattered over a country of
many leagues square, which was covered with
the accumulated lies, deceits, scandals, and
vanities of 8,000 ,rears. Here and there were
some of the cesspools into which the world's
sewage of sin had drained its way. Strange
to say, the most putrescent nuisances found:
here were on the earth smuggled about under
the veil of goodness. HeU was actually strewn
with pretences, pretexts; and apologies. ,These-
articles, indeed, had ever been the favourite-
.counterfeit currency of error."
Penetrating deeper into hell, the atmosphere
hecomes more steneh-fraught, and the yeUs
and howls of the elfish inhabitants wax ill'
honor. Here ar() the avaridons, the in eon-
tinent, thieves, liars, and suicides; and here
the ears are deafened with groans, and th8'
eyes
•
crowded with the si~dlt
v
of men writhing in
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 71

unsightly contortions. Liars and deceivers]

whose sins were hranded into their features~
were· tottering about, vainly attempting to
conceal their unconcealable guilt. In their
faces, as in it book, one eould read their every
falsehood. They comprised an classos of the
community, but especially base lawyers. Thfany
of these knaves; who on earth had made
clients their prey) were now the prey of clients.
Thus they bewailed their lot :-' I Life we spent
in making falsehood 8Jle truth, and in frus-
trating right. 'Ve waylaid reason; stultified
justice, maligned innocencc, and shielded
• 1)
cruue"
One averred, "I had in my lifetime only
one law plea, but it replenishod my pursc for
forty years. Though I knew all along it was
a hopeless case, I roguishly over beguiled my
dupes with hope J that I might keep myself in
moneyo"
Another lawyer deponed he was elevated to
the Bench because he so outwitted justice as to
make an execrable murderer appear as honest.
Though he had sat on the Bench f()r thirty
years, he admitted he had only settled five
cases. One of these Sl:l.its, in which a widow
72 THE TWENTY~NINTII CENTU;RY.

endeavoured to save her estate from the hands

of ruffians, extended over fifteen years, by
which time she had died, and her persecutors
had eaten up all her property. "Thus," con-
fessed the judge, "while one mathematician
could unriddle the most difficult question in
geometry in a few minutes~ it sometimes took
hosts of lawyers many years to solve a simple
problem in equity.'! " Shame 1!1 rejoined the
S€leUDdme; Justice d
o " • •
.e. I d was lDJUstlce
aye ...." .
.Those who on earth had been hawks J who
had fared on, the credulity of mankind, were
here the victims of those they had vIctimized.
Some quacks, like prey among a pack of wolves,
were hunted by those whom they ha~ sent to
premature gTaves. Some were immersed in
deep pools, composed of their own boluses and
balsams; others Jay stifl.ed amid waggon~loads
of empiric literature, which they had stuffed
down the wide throat of human cullibility.
Swindlel'Sj sharpers, and multitudes who had
graduated in the various colleges of knavery;
from private trickery to political jugglery, lay
crouching and crawling in all directions,
barbed by their own hooks and noosed in
their own traps, The Secundine, in behold~
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 73

Ing tho Heene, know not whether to marvel

the more at the height of man'H Gullihi1ity
or the depth of his deeoit. Fudher on were
the husbandmen of error, who) having sowed
the seed of sophistrY1 were now reaping the
fruits of retribution, Here were bands of
novelists, who hacl performed fantasias on the
strings of ribaldry; there were adventurers
who had pawned principle for place, :Uere
were the alchemists of mental philosophy, who
pretended to have found golden truths in. the
dross of atheism; thQre were the poet~laureate8
of libertinislll. Here were pedlars of sophistry,
there those who fostered festering superstitions,
rrhe vasitor now entered the location of those
who had sacrilegiously smuggled through deaHl's
door by putting an end to their own existenee.
Hosts were wandering about with cut throats,
legions were suspended from gibbets, cl~o·wds
were vainly struggling for breath at· the
bottom of ponds; and many were roaming"
about in a most pitial)le plight, with pro-
tuberant eyes, livid cheeks, ancl gasping
mou.ths, in a condition of eontlnuul asphyxia.
Yet though aU were at all times experiencin.g
dying agonies, n(Hle had the prospects of eyen
,
74 THE TWENTY~l'UNTH CENTURY.

a momentary remission from pain, They BUt:

fered death's pangs without the expectation
of its quietus, The great proportion of the
abject ohjects here had run dcath's blockade--
by means of poison. Thfore than the half had
sailed to hell by dint of the king of poisons,
alcohoL " rl'his devilish virus," said the hook 1
.. was a liquid which Nature meant as a fuel for
spirit~lamps, hut which man appropriated for
himself under the specidus title of a stimulant.
Subtle was its power. It crowded the brain
with demons and the body with diseases, It
throw all the members of the body corporate-
into mutiny. The legs revolted against the
will, and oft pitched tho trunk and head
into ditches. The arms gave the fists a freo
commission to riot in mischief. The tongue
became insubordinate, and muttered and stut-
tered over incoherent rigmaroles of rhodo-
montade. The stomach rose in insurrection,
and repulsed its enemy. The eyes deluded
the bmin with fantasies and phantasmagoria~
Saddest of all, the reason resigned its sceptre,
the memory forsook its archives] and the judg>-
mcntabdicated its throne, The little kingdom
of tho tuman frame was temporarily the prey
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 75·

of hopeless anarchy. Drunkards} therefore,"

added the book) (I formed the most tristflll pie-
ture in this gallery of horrors, in respect or
their vast lluml)el's and their' condign punish-
ments. N (I plague or disease had ever com-
mittod such ha.voc upon the body and soul as
strong drink The Deluge swept not more
people to destruction than did wine in each
century of pre-mil1ennial ages."
The story of one of these victims was pecu-
liarly sad. awnen I hacl lived su.fficiently
long for my mind to know its 0'''11 possessions y
I found I had been heir to the hapless hap of
being born in a world in which I had not all
ineh of soil to till or a pieee of yarn to spin.
I was necessitated to be the slave of knaves.
Life I found to be a race ill which all were un-
equally handicapped-a race in whic~l for one
prize that went to worth) ten thousand wont to
aS8uxp.ption) presumption, and wealth; and a
race in which poverty and the devil were
snowed. to take the hindmost.
" Seeing no earthly goal for..rwhieh to rUll,
I, alas! shut my eyes to the one heavcnlY1
which is for all, and which all may win. T(}
wile away m.v YexatioW';, I amused. mvself
"' ..1 I ..1
on
76 THE TWENTY-!UNTII CENTURY.

the verge of drink's maelstrom. At length I

was whirled into its eddies~ and was then spun
fier(~dy and. more fiercely into the vortex,
until-'l "And hero," adds the Secnndine,
"he burst into teal's."
]Turther on were l)il1ol'ies, to which were
pinioned thioves, Each had an his crimes
exposod 1 and each was branded with the
adamantine seals of contempt and. reproach.
Every covert act was now overt, and every
stolen aliide exhibited" From age to age and
century to eentul'y there they were exposed t
targets for the ceaseless gibes and taunts of
their fen ow-sinn ers, their eyes the while only
hebolding tho emhlems _of their infamy] and
their ears only hearing words of scol'n· and
arraigrunenL Nor was callousness allowed to
appease degradation. Shame ever covered
their hearts 'with incurable ulcers-ulcers
which rendered them the more sensitive to
the darts by which they were ceaselessly as-
sailed,
Tho sight of so many of those villains deeply
affected the Vonusian, who in his vex.ation
said~ "Amazing it is that humap. beings should
have been thieves, seeing their lives were 80
 I JOUR1't"'EY TO VENUS. 17
short as to make what they stole not worth
tho stealing," Scrutinizing IDOl'e closely
those criminals, his sorrow €xpanded when he
discovered that they consisted for the most
part of those who on earth had been reputed
honourable men. "It was not poverty) but
richest said he, '0 which formed the main in-
centive to .robbery. For one theft the law
prevented, it licensed ten. The greatest thieves
were those whose larcenies ha.d been perpe-
trated under the ambush of customs or Acts
of Parliaments. Stern justiee had transfused
words like smeeure, honorarYt and pension into
names like pillage, ra8cality~ and corruption.
:iYIillions, therefore, whose turpitude had escaped
the meshes ()f law; were here victims in the
,;.~ 0 f eqlll.Y,
new:! 't"
Deeper into bell reside the hypocrites.
Among them are countless l'fwarms of shadest
consisting of the scum which had boiled up
from all the l'eligiou8 vat~ of the numerous
sectaries. These fanatics were dis-spread over
a region knee-deep liIr"ith broken altars, cruci-
nxes, baldaeehinos, mutilated images, tallow
candles, tom sllrpliees, and a host of the·
fopperies and fripperies of dandy orrunanees.
'18 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

Thoir souls were dyed with nIl the hues of

deceit. Somo mourned over tho cruelties they
had inflicted on others, some over the penances
they hlld inflictea 011 themselvofl.· All were
roasting on fil'CH whose combustihles were their
own thoughts) words, and deeds. On oarth
their utterances, having their foundation. no
deeper tban the gullet, had gravitated to helL
Those soulless discoUl'ses, petitions, ana confes-
810m; bUTned on inconsumable, subjecting' their
authors to the direst torments. }fany were here
whose amhi-dexterous duplicity had sublimed
their characters into the areas of respectability.
So superfieial had heon the discrimination of
man, that numberless rogues had gone through
life never suspected and ever respeeted. }Iany
who on earth had been titled upright were
here labelled nefarious felons, Some who, by
the suffrages of the Papal church, had been
eanonized and beatified, were here writhing :in
damnation. Amid mighty furnaces, red-hot
with canons, bulls, inquisitions, indulgences1
mercenary masses, and perjured prayers, the
souls of many sinners were broiled from age to
age. "I taught the way to heaven," cried
,one} '{ while I myself was fast hurrying along,
 I JOURNEY TO YENUS. 10
the road to helI.J' "Alas!)' cried anothor, "for
the discrepancies between tho tongue and the
heart, for while I preached Christ my heart
was tho warehouse of Satan." Notable for their
insufferable sufferings were those who had the
effrontery to call themselvcH the descendants of
St. Peter when they were often heirs to tho
infamy of J ndas Iscariot. Basest among tho
base array were some ,Jmmits, and many who,
with heaven on their lips and hen in their
hearts, had fimned. the flames of sectarianism.
Contiguous to those reprobates were the
atheists, among whom priests figmcd largely.
At such -a diversity of angles had they de-
parted from the straight line of right, that not
two out of the myriads had the same obliquity.
The rocks of error upon which they had stood
on the world 1 were the rocks under which they .,

'Woro. gmothored in helL UndeT the un bearablo

loads of their sins, their crios were piteous.
H Woe is me 1') exclaimed one; "I denied God

though the very devil was a believer.)}

Another said, (( I wrote ve~"y unfairly the
hi'5tory of a few pulse-beats of tho flxistenee of
a little isle magniloquently ealled Great
Britain. I also studied philosophy to under-
80 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

mille philosophy's greatest truths. Believing

that the intellectwhich'l<vas eon centred in
myself was unmatched, I ridiculed the idea of
being but. a pigmy in the hands of a superior
intelligence.. Behold the result!" Danton was
pictured deploring his godless life, and his.
bravado before death :-~'My residence will
be in annihilation, and my name will remain
in the Pantheon of history." HAlas!" he said,
"it is this Pantheon which sees annihilation,
while my !:Ioul lives, and shall live in misery
fur ever. Ah, me! it was my soul's immorality
which hrihed my judgment to deny its immor~
tality."
Infamous among those infamous were the
fOlulders of .many base religiol1oids. 'rheir
agonies made them honestly confess their un-
worthy offences and pretences, n,.fany were
being cauterized on hen's hottest brasiers who-
preachecl there was no hell. Lost and undone
were many who professed by briberies called
indulgences, and. sops caned masses, to save
others from punishment" Helpless amid a
world of pain. we:re those who pretended to be-
infallible. One bewailed his sins thus :_i! I
founded a church that I might from the pulpit
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS, 81
defeat the pulpit's object." Another avouch~d,
H I prepared a creed and instituted a new

, l"eligion, though I own my object was not to

convert, but pervert."
While in this part of Hades, the visitor was
amazed to heal!' shouts of laughter. He soon
learned that the incongruity of hilarity in the
l'ealms of dole was found here, beeause grief
could not be more intensified than by being
harrowed and lacerated by the outbursts of
joeundity. .
The convulsive chucklings were all the more
agonizIng, because unrestrainable, 'While
their faces were those of a :fi.lomus, their eyes
were those of a Niobe. "I wept," said the
Secundine, H to -seo them laugh, for while
they chuckled, their hearts shed tears of
blood,"
Deeper into the bottomless pit, the ear is
inundated with the yells and shrieks of the
human voice, with the rude accompaniment of
the hissing of vipers, the incessant pealing and
l'olling of thunder, the eruptions of volcanoes,
and the crashing of falling rocks. rrhis is the
seat of ruffians) outlaws, and assassins. Fire
and brImstone is their soil, sulphury chlorinated
VOL. III. G
82 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

und phosphoric fumes their atmosphere, thunder-

pent clOllds and burning ashes their sky, anJ
ogrer-;, hobgoblins, furies, snnkes} amI hell-cats,
are their companions. In their tortures through
walking over the red-hot marl) they flee here
and there, only to find their anguish intensified
by their heing met in the foul embrace of sonle
hideous boa-constrictor. Like l,aocoons, many
struggled in the grip of these loathsome reptiles.
Many are haunted and hunted by the appari-
tions of those they had massacred. :lYfany
give way to tears, only to find their agonies
aggravated, for no sooner do they flow, than
they boil through the excessive heat, and scald
the eyes and cheeks. In this quartel' was the·
abyss appropriated to murderers. The Seeun-
dine marvelled to find It so populous. £i Alas! "
he cried? "£)r the blindness of earthly j1lBt,ice}
T perceive that thousands have been assas-
sinated who had been supposed to have died
a natural death; . and that thousands have 1)00n
murderers who had enjoyed the l'eputation of '
being honest men."
Several of those who on earth had been
professional criminals, on being asked if they
.had been punished in the flesh, answered,
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 83

H Nay, man rewarded us for our offencesJ and

used the very means to encourage us in our
evil callings. Imprisonment to us only meant
a. pleasing change of life; it relieved us from
all care and vexation. Yea in place of heing
j

horsewhipped, we were boarded at the public

expense in magnificent mansions) called jailsJ
and were attended by valets called turnkeys.
While the virtuous had, oft to struggle and
Borrow in garrets and cellars, we, the dregs of
the human race, 'were ministered unto like
princes, in buildings fit for kings."
t! So injudicious was justice in my day," said

one arrant knave) "that in its jurisdiction

the nation punished itself more than culprits.
The arrows from the qui vel' of law were so
awkwardly thrown that their recoil upon the
j

innocent was more severe than their blows

upon offenders. Innocence was taxed, and g'uilt
pensioned. It cost the innocent thousands of
pOlmds to punish a murderer. N aYl after
spending this sum, he in most eases was allowml
to escape. Had I llmman exemplary man, my
country would have allowed me to toil and
moil unhelped and unheeded; but because I
became a thief and then a murderer1 the
 84: THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

greatest lawyers of the age were summoned to

study my crimes, one~third of whom were
chosen to prove me innocent, onc~thlrd to
prove me guilty, and tho remaining third to
act as umpUoes. My devilry had acquired me
every consideration. No man of distinction
couId have been better attended or more kindly
treated. ])Iy'very infamies sounded like heroism
in the cars of many. Nay, after my guilt was
proven, public sympathy was evoked in my
behalf, myriads rushed to sign petitions that
my life should be spared; so that in the end
the patronage elicited by my delinquencies.
excited the king of the COlIDtry to gmciously
sign my reprieve. H
., Did your infamy not urge you to flee from
your country?" suggested the Venusian.
.. Oh} not was the answer. '~I knew my
country wOlll!:1d. myoma thi,q trouble,_ by taking-
charge of my emigration itself. EmigratiOll:r
in truth, was my only punishment."
.In further testimony of the unchastening-
chastisements of the world towards the culpable,
another tiond declared that for smaller crimes
:ho was favoured with a change of residence,
. and for greater a change of latitude; and that
 I JOURNEY TO 'lr"R.'ifUS. 85
whenever his session in a penal college ended,
he had his vacation to plunder and thieve as
much as he liked until he was again discovered.
Tho Vonusian then surveys the dens appro-
priated to those who followed the barbarous
profession of manslaughter. Millions wore
here tossed together, in moving and living
heaps, in quagmires of stinking gore. rrhey
were wrestling with each other for breathing
room, for they lay more densely packed than
bees in a swarm. tt We fought for territory on
earth, iY was their cry, "though in it there were
acres for each man. Discontented once with
unmeasurable domains, we must now rest satis-
nod to be huddled here like vermin, buried by
each other, and considering ourselves fortunate
if once in an age we reach the outside of the
human hive, in order to be relieved of the
incubus and to enjoy a bl'eath of air." On
.approaching nearer, the Venusian discoVel"ed
there wero more than murder-mongers in those
great sheaf's of shades. He found them a
,compost consisting of men, cockatrices, liza:rds, .
toads, a8ps~ centipedes, and earwigs, Not" did
these horrors exhaust the catalogue '-'
of their
miseries. Some were impaled on swords an.d
bayonets, legions gl'Oaned. from the wounds
they had caused to others, myriads monned
under the weight of cannon, and all smarted
from the effects of incurable wounds and un-
appeasable pains"
Severnl of the great bundles of spirits con-
sIsted of those who ·llad worshipped ]}Ioloch in
Biblical times. Other hiUs of humanity com-
prised Grecian, Assyrian~ and Roman warnors.
G! None I eould distinguish/' says the Venusian,

tt ill those great pyramids as having niched

their names in the tablets of infamy." f& Ift

mused I,· 'I the comnionaltyof licensed mur-
derers writhe under such excruciating tortures,
what is reserved for their leaders?" For a while
I thought they had special and hotter eom-
partments in these realms; but myeonffiding
doubts were soon removed. As if in answer to
my thollghtg~ the ground qllaked~ and an ex-
pJosion ensued, as dreadful} as if hen itself
had been cast into perdition, Hell seeme{i
scared at its own horrors. Meanwhile) the vast
host of shades and their detestable reptile
companion~ had be~n hurled into the raging
thunder-clouds overhead. Thereafter they fell
down yelling and shrieking with agony, torn
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS • 87
. and mutilated, yet unkilled, because their death
was deathless. For some time tbe ghastly
shower of wriggling serpents, lizards, and
human beings fen thick. and fast amid a coneert
of heUish howls and hissingso The f,1'l'ound tlJl'
a few seconds uncovered, then began to he
mantled with the legions, so that hell for
leagues around was now darkened by tho
carcases of the falling fiends. Irhose erewhile
highest were now lowest, and those lowest
highest. Thoso formerly buried from my
sight were now exposed to ,,-lew; revealing the
ghosts of those leaders who had made the world
a hunting-field.of ambition and men mere game,
They were encompassed by armies of caitiffs
and varlets, mightier than ever they had wit-
nessed in the flesh, and yet each one was
burdened with insuperable sufterings. ll'lhua-
dered; but knowing my OlTand, I asked one,
more hideous than the others, for what he was
now exposed to su.ch carking woes. I, I am
Alexander of Macedon," was the reply. "In
worldly matters I had the misfortune to be
fortunate, 'rhough in lif(:;'s lottery 1 seemed
destined to draw nothing but prizes) and though
I subjugated what I belioved was tho' world, it '
 88 THE TWENTYoNINTH CENTURY.

was not till I died I Haw that in war the victors

are victims, and that ill battles the devil alone
is the conqueror, and death alone triumphant.
Alas! for Arbela, the Granicus j the 188u8~
,
and Ecbatana, their names are eaneers in my u

memory. Alas! for the infamies these places

witnessed. 1tfoloch gained the honours, I now
receive the retribution. Those who caned me
a god, now treat me as their dog. Smothered
benenth millions, I have not 80 mlleh as the
boon of dying."
The Seeundinc i8 next aecostml hy a female
in these terms :_H BehoM in me Semiramis.
Comparisons were wont to be drawn between me
and. Sardanapalus. I was the viler, and there-
fore possess a more revolting berth in hell. He
brought suffering only upon himself,-I brought
it upon millions." The visitor thereafter reviews
a eonglomeration of the man·hunters belonging
to all eal'thly nations during all ages. Mighty
were the pyramids of Roman soldiers, prominent
amongst whom were the grim visages of those
. foes of the human race, Pompey! C~:esar, and
}faximin. Piles of Crusaders were further on,
,who, with allegIance to the cross on their lips
and standards, had treason in their hearts"
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 89
1¥lOl'<:l distant lio hUg'e shade-drifts of German,
French, and English drilled cut - throats.
Sprinkled through these he found great bands
-of unkingly kings, ignoble nobleSt and many
of the erst famous~ but now damned, Propagan-
dists, who f(~rmcntod war, and. made others fight.
To his surprise thero wore m)rl'iads of tho
manes of those leaders of national murdering
packs, whose valour had only lain in villainy,
whose only conquests had been in drawing-
rooms and at balls, whose only encounters had
been with the fair sex j and. who had struttml
.a~out bedecked with swords guiltless of lllood,
and martial gewgaws which had only sparkled
at reviews, sham~fights, and levees. H In none
of hell's blackholest said he, "did I witness
.such a squad of pusillanimolls cowards, pol-
troons, miscreants, and. recreants:'
Among the swarms of shades here were
many inventors of implements of torture and
-death, Tho threnotly of one run thus :_H For a
while I outstripped everybody in the superiority
Df my lethal instruments, but eventually I feU
martyr ., to what were called th? advances of
the age.. My hellish devices) once aU tbe l"age,
"were therefore discarded, because, according to
90 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

the spIrit of the age, they were not capable of

killing a sufficient number of men in the
minute." By looking at the ordnance survey
of hell enclosed in the volume, I saw that the
abodes of misanthropes lay contiguous to this
spot. I discovered that while their inmates
were in the flesh haters of all mankind, they
were now condemned to the horrid punish-
ment of being haters of themselves, 'Words
cannot tell how deeply each liege of this
domain of demons loathed and abominated his
own person.
Distinguishable for their punitions were
"many who on earth had been distinguished
for their regal pomp. Many kings, who pro~
feBBed to have a licence to sin and. tyrannize
by divine right, were now the victims of
divino wrath. ,Many who had fought with
\yeapons desecrated hy being eonsecrated by
mass-mongers} who called themselves infallible~
-many who massacred and pillaged under the
ba:n~ler of the cross,-and many who murdered.
lmder the auspices of hellish, holy alliances,
-wore now wallowing in despair and remorse
under the Khadow of tho dcvirs trident"
H Hen.\:? said tho Secundine, "I viewed
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 91
despots the menials of their former slaves, aD(1
pugnacious Crusars; Kaisers; Shahs, and Chams;
the serfs of their erst vassals. Here were-
emperors with red-hot' brands for crov\rns,
N essu:!; shirts. for garments] .and snakes for
robes. They were lying squat among the-
putrid debris of a sopulchre of pride and vani~
ties, and a wilderness of ruined monuments,
broken busts, wrecked plinths) shatte1'cd bets-
relieJs, crashed thrones, torn diadems, and
lmctuous flatterers DOW putrescent. Con-
spicuous among thorn were many of the pet
ehildren of history. One rued the day when
he purchased a lifetime of fame at the' expense
of an eternity of inexorable torment, One
deplored the worthlessness of blood-bought
conquests. Another decried the folly and
imbecility of humouring Satan by falling into·
the hands of the god of battles. ' rrhe dcvil/
sighed he, 'may ftre the guns, but Goel
directs the ~hafi. The devil may wage war,
out it is God's prerogative to afilsign the
victory: Some cried, 'Would to heaven that
Justice had settled what we referred to Satan's
arbiters-steel, sulphux) chareoal, nitro, and
lead;' and an, as their hearts were festering
'92 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

with sores, had their mouths surcharged with.

lamentations. The anguish of one was spe-
cially prominent. 'With a tomb,' said he, 'on
·eurth whieh cost millions of gold pieces, I am
in hell, while mYI'iads who have only the
daisies and grass to bedeck their graves are
ill heaven. With a name which for centuries
quickened the pulse of my countrymen,
thrilled the souls of the school-boy and student,
and awakened the :fire of the historian, I am
yet, one of heWs detested helots, while mil-
lions, unregretted, unpraised, unknown, and
without so much as an epitaph, are angels in
Paradise.' "
With many of hell's minions the Venusian
conversed, Cresar deplored his sins thus:
!( The bloom of my virtues was caducoUB. My
merits melted before the furnace of my ambi~
tion. I weeded the world's population, widowed
innumerable wives, orphaned legions of children,
"and poisoned the air with the stench of human
carrion, that I might inake my name immortal.
My commentarios were lacquer with which
I gilded my sins with the hue of virtue. I
marvel that men '"Yere duped into the belief
I was a patriot. I patriotic, forsooth! Why, I
 I .JOURNEY TO VENUS.

gloated and doted upon Rome as the miser

upon his treaSlITe only because it was my per-
j

sonal property."
The visitor was distressed to discover that
an infinite deal of hell's work had been per-~
formed in the name of heaven. "Priests and'
warriors/, said he, " I descried huddled
together, because they had connived in
rogueries, and because their hearts were alike
imhrued with blood. Here inquisitors were
tortured on the rack of retribution, or burning
on the stakes of vengeance. Here were many
who made ambition their deity, and murder'
and rapine their religion. Here were some to'
whose tombs silly pilgrimages were made by
silly people. So vile was the condition of all
here, and so loathed were they by the very
demon gaolers of hell, that for waxdcl's they
had dragons whose expirations were smoke and
flame, and whose perspirations were purulent
poison. To the moans and groans which
ascended from this pit the fiercest lamentations
ever witnessed in the flesh were insignificant.
To the filthy, fmtid stench ·which nearly choked
each victim, the most odious odow's of earth
were insipid, In this assemblage of autocrats,
,!H: THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTCRY.

thcocrah'1 and monsters, some pontiff$ tl'an G

Bccnded the others in hideousness, One upon

whom torment had lavished its cruel ingenuity
thus conressed his crimes :-' I was born in
ealm times, but I lived to mako them stormy.
Instead of th.rowing the oil of my influence on
troubled waters, I threw oil on troubled fires,
Through me wars wore concocted, populations
pruned, consciences manacled, truth persecuted,
family ties lacerated, and one wild wail of
affliction made ascend from the Tigris to the
Vistula,' By this Titan in vice and others I
was told that minions had been massacred lly
orders from Vaticans, and that there was
scarcely a war but whose plans had been
devisod or revised in the cloisters. One
monarch mourned, ! I fermented wars at the
bidding of priests, when I 'and lnj,- people
desil'ed peace. I was caught in. a maelstrom
of popish intrigue, I was a puppet in a play
of which I was not even told. the pr~-concerted
plot, On the proscenium of rny own age I
was, through my regal power, mad.e a scene-
.shifter of history under the commands of a
stage-manager called the Pope. Obeying those
who called themselves the vice-regents of
 I JOURNEY TO 'VENUSo 95

. heaveD) I believed I was doing heaven's work.

Nay, so much did I patronize tho profession of
papistry, that I 'purchased during my life no
less than fifteen thousand massos, eighty To
Demns, and fifteen papal blessings, together
with a miscellany of priestly merceries.' An-
Dther autocrat thus decried the duplicity and
deceits of priest-craft :-' In the world my sins
had completely mortgaged my soul, but those
who titled themselves infallible assured me
my spirit would be redeemed, and would safely
l'cp,ch heaven, after mv sin-emrrained heart and.
, tt' "...-'

blood-besmeared hands had been bleached upon

the fields of purgatory by masscs and papal
abstergents. For these soul-soaps and hyssops
I paid honoUIably; but no sooner did death
kidnap me to this irremeable prison, than I
saw they had embezzled me, and. that my
immortal being was bank.rupted for immortality.'
Others piteously wailed that they, too, had been
swindled into purchasing masses, those bonds
upon the PUl'D'"atorv
a '3!
Bank. 'PrIests,' said oneo ~

'alleged that purgatory was like a huge pawn-

shop} whereof the souls were the unredeemed
pledges} and masses the eUTl'Oney by which
they were r:l1nsomed.~ Anothel' avowed, 'lfy

l
96 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

soul~lawyers) the clergy) made me helieve I

was insuring my soul when I was paying them
premiums called alms, which I found went to-
the rich, and investing money in charities,
which I learned were doled out to swen the
luxury of the luxurious.' Some priests present
owned. the truth of this' impeachment. ' Our
cowls and 'mitres,' they groaned out, 'were
mere visors. With religion flowing from
our lips) ow' souls were ever bibulous to-
error and corruption.' Another voice then
loaded the region with jeremiads. • Beholq.
in me one who played every note in guiWs
agamut, and whose life was one continued series
of wiles and guiles. Born in the arctic zones
of poverty, I, by being a crack p1ayer at war-
chess, rose to the torrid zone of autocracy.
rro me pontiffs truckledf and kings pandered
and paltored. Statesmen, who but for my
success would have eal1ed me a traitor, hailed
me as a liberator. Priests, who ,but for my
prosperity would hav'e excommunicated me,
crowned my every atrocity with blessings"'"
The Secundine reviewed not the mighty
shoals of spectres in this region without the-
most pathetic outbursts of sorrow. H ~Iy
 I JOURNEY TO VENUS. 87
vexation," said he, "suppurated into agony at
the sight of this awful haunt of hell," Though
the population consisted of myriads, each was
invcsted by a microcosm of guilt. Murders,
piracies, larcenies j arsons, and the fullest blown
fruits of sin, lay in such mighty pyramids; and
presented such a surfeit of contaminations and
abominations, as might have sickened hell
itself. Though. more kings were here than
would have supplied every parish in the world
with a potentate, though there were morc
priests than would have filled ten times the
number of benefices in the nineteenth century,
and more nobles than the earth could have
supported in their former luxury, and though
earthly rank and greatness wero concentred
here, there was nothing but squalor and degra~
dation, nothing but bleak and blank desolation,
and monotonous misery. .J:\las 1 what lofty
superstructures of impious ambition did men
build upon the baseless base of their short and
uncertain life. '1'he Alexanders of history,
though with the possibility of being despatched
to hen at.any moment, spent their few days in
ever preparing ;new sacrifices of hwulreds of
thousands of human victims fOf ]!Yloloch~s altar,
VOL. :m. H
98 TIlE TWENTY-NDrrH CENTURY.

that) peradventure, they might rule a fe\v

nations, not worth the ruling.
But I have accompanied the Secundine only
a short way in his tour through Hades. 3-1y
heart which has only, by great wrestling against
a tide of emotions) succeeded in proceeding so
far, now Imecum bs to tho increasing horrors of
the narrative. What fonows is so super-horrid,
that the subject's pursuit would be a profitless
penance. Happily, even hell's gloom adum-
brated heavenly grace, While it pictured man's
iniquity, it showed forth God's mercy, Amid
hell's host there was not a single child. "I wept
withjoy," said the Venusian, "to know that aU
infants were in heaven.if "Such floods of tears/'
mused I, "would have been saved had anxious
mothers, ignoring the ignorant and rigorous
dogmata of priests) trusted in God's loving
kindness, and felt that when the Ahnighty
ealled away the young it was to reseue them
from the :rude hands of a ruffian world. Blessed
was the lot of those favourites of heaven-those
honoured innocents. To live was to be dispensed
danger and hazard; to die in infimcy was the
certainty of heaven."
 'THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF VENUS. 99

CHAPTER IV.
Tntl ARTS AND SCIENCES OF VENUS.

HAVING acquired a command of the language,

amI released myself from the scaffolding with
which I had built up in my memory a new
linguistic temple~ I now commenced to conse-
crate this knowledge edifice to its various
uses.
Before eoming hither~ Ihad wrongly supposed
that Secundus possessed transit systems. On
-expressing my surprise at finding none~ Ronitus
smiled, and asked "if the swallow could not
perform its migrations without the agency
of trains or tubes? Our natural strength,"
added he, "is such, that with our wings wo
can circumfiy our orb in a few hours. J\tfo:te~
oyer, our frames are not like yours······ponderous~
cumbersome, and overloaded with corporeal
matter. Within our skin are but a few grammes
,of mattel'; 1J\,'ithin yours thero are hog'Sheads of
100 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

non-vital water, and. many pounds of physical

solids:' I then inquirefl how it would he
possible for me to undertake my proposed.
wanderings around Hesperus, seeing I was so
much burdened with a gross cargo of chemical
elements, and seeing I possessed neither
sufficient strength nor extraneous artificial!
apparatus. "I will carry you in my arms,'"
was the reply. This conoquy rose from a
discovery which I made this same dayo Having
gone out with my balloon, and having inilated
it, to my amazement it would not riseo Trying
next my electric wings, my efforts to fly proved
utterly ineffectual. The truth then dawned
upon me that hero the atmosphere was more·
rarefierl and more pure than the world's.
When the time arrived for my travels, Bonitas,
took me in his anna with as mucp ease as though
I had been a child, and by dint of his wings
bore me on through the skies with a speed
which rendered. tho subjacent objects a maze.
As I was wafted onwards, I found there was,
not a spot in this lovely world but administered
re:&eshment to all my senses. Each moment
I was regaled. with an ever-changing banquet
of lovely sights, melting music) and sweet
 TEE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF VENUS. 101

al'omas. Even the pleasures of smell were so

abiding, that their cdge was never blunted, and
80 cnraYll§hing! that they were more agreeable
than those of taste in tho world. ~fy tutor, in
token of his super-earthly power, conyeyt:id. me
hundreds of miles in a few minutes, and even~
tually placed me on the pinnacle of the largest
mountain in this world. 'Vben my giddy head
had rallied from the inebriation of stupefaction,
a rich repertory of beauties lay in wait for my
eyes. Twenty-one miles in height, the view
from this peak fcmned the most extensive and
delectable scene myretim.e ever daguerreotyped.
111y nerves of vision were thrilled at a prospect
in which the perceptio~ so transcended concepm
tioD. It possessed the every attribute of mag-
nificence. Below, every tree and shrub, though
hundreds of miles distant, appeared with their
features as sharp ami dear as though t.hey lmd
been at our feet, while above heaven's azure was
immaculateo
The amazing conjunction of strength, sim-
plicity, and smallness in their telescopes capti-
vated my attention, and then captured. my
approbationo . Ours are like steeples) theirs,
with infinitely greater efficacy, are in length
102 THE TWENTY-:NINTH CENTL'RY.

only a few mctreil\. lHy zeal made me eagerly

examine their constructio11 1 that I might
convey the benefit of Secundine ingenuity to
my native world. 1lfy expectations were
equally outstripped on scrutinizing the micro-
scopes. They were pigmies in size and giants
in strength. They were infinitely superior to
Our8~ and were totally free from aberrationsw
Their powers may be judged by these fuctsw
A small seed having heen dissceted and placed
on an objed-glass, what did I hehold but an
infurity of genemtionti of plants locked up in
its interior. Within the area of a pin point I
espied a perfect garden of vegetation, and
trees within trees, only waiting till Time dis-
enthralled them from their pericarps.. A small
]('.af having been microscopized, I viewed it
a.~ a world whose geography comprised hills1
valleYBJ fore8t8~ rivers:! and plains. Upon it
I surveyed cities gorged with mighty popu-
lations1 and oceans teeming with fish. I
contemplated plains lIpon which grazed im-
measu.rable fl.ocks of animals of Sllch min.utc~
ness that soveral millions could have marched
abreast through the eye of a needle. On an
egg being subjected to optical dilata.tion, I d.Ur
 THE ARTS L'fD SCIENCES OF VENUS. 103

tinguishod in it embryonic bevies of poultry.

An ovum encased hundrods of future birds,
and each of those had locked up within them
other hundreds of chicks t and so on, until 'wo
came to that point where the lens refused to
carry the eye further. To my amazement the
lineaments of many of the fowls could he
dist.inctly seen, though as many as four gene-
rations had to be born ere they could attain
an independent existence. The animalcuI a of
animalcula found upon insects I also recog-
nized. Cells and molecules were seen to
have embosomed within them. genealogies of
creatures embracing millions of the denizens
of coming ages. Within the area of a nutshell
thex'o wore un born lineages of birds sufficient
to populate mighty forests, and ulterior music
adequate to thrill the skies, }fany of thH
embl'yonic populations I saw were so far down
the stream of time, that it may be hundreds
of years ere they be promoted to tbe dignity of
being distinct entities of life" Strange thoughts
whirled through my brain as I pondered that
in a single egg the:re is coiled up a chain of
vital links whi~h stretch into the future billions
of years J and that within it are congregated
104 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

innumerable covoys of birds belonging to all

prospective ages. I •

As my eyes had previously surveyed the

puny races of the mieroseopic world, my ears
were now regaled "with their music amI
nnutnurs. Applying tho auroscope over a
needle point's area ill a decayed leaf, there
was rendered audible tho inaudible wriggling
of animalcula in wat~r, tho prancing of mites
over thelears mountainous fibres, the flapping
of aerial vibriones over the leaf's surface, and
tho whifltling, chirping) cooing, and squeaking
of nature)s infinitesimal musicians.
An adaptation of the auroscope ,vas now
explain'cd to mc, whereby the internal movc-
ments of the planets arc stethoscopized. On
applying my ear, I distinctly distinguished the .
systole and diastole of tho planot's heart caused
by tho' motion of its molten currents. I should
have wondered, had I not been past the stage
of wondoring, how it was possible to fiI.ter away
foreign noises and abstract the desired sounds
'lvlth such perfect purity, My :Mentor lost no
time in applying a solvent to my ignorance.
He described to me with wondTous succinctne5l~
and distinctness the rationale of cosmical a;.:u;-
 THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF VENUS. 105

·cultation, and how, by graduation of the instru-

ments, they could suit for all depths from a
mette to 10,000 kilom(;tres.
In like manner I was shown all the inven-
tions known to the world, ancl myI'ia.~ls were
revealed which were unknown. I perceived
the Secundines could.. not only make glass and
stonos amI all inorganic substances muJleahle,
lmt possessed. a power undreamed of hy man
Df making them transparenL Amazing was
the variety of changes they perf~)rmed upon
the metals, especially in enduing them with an
adventitious property, by which their tenacity,
durability} a.nd elasticity were infinitely in~
creased. There being free trade in the com~
merce of knowledge, I was at once initiated
into the mysteries of those operations, that I
might he enabled to transplant the knowledge
to my native world.
When I expressed my surprise at the power
-of robbing' minerals of their opacitY1 they at
once took steps to reinforce my a.mazedness by
telling me that an things in na.ture mmld be
transparentized, and that the world itself could
be rendered crystalline. Oonfirmato~J' of these
truths, I was taken to experimental gardens,
106 TIlE TWENTY NINTH CENTURY.
c

where I was wonder-shuck io behold trees and

pl!1nts, some transparent in part, and others in
whole, according as it was deemed necessaJ:Y
to disclose to students the several parts of their
economy_ I was lfext shown animals, upon
which the youths of the second planets were
taught zoolob7 amI eomparative anatomy, in
some of which the skin was like a glass case)
showing beneath the working of the muscles;
in others} the skin and muscles were pellucid,
shmving the circulatory system; in others1 all
was perspicuous, save the bones, with the view
of their being subservient to the study of
osteology; while in others still, the whole
body was vitreous. Astounding were 'the
scenes thus revealed. "wllat pictures of
vitality, what an accumulation of statica1 1
dynamical, and. vital wonciel's/, mused I,
G" (loes the skin conceal F'
But still fu.rther singularities awaited my
surcharged senses, They now showed me an
original method of stud.ying biology: They
took me to a. large plain) in which I was startled
to find an animal, compared to the sIze of whieh
the whalo of our seas is but a minnow. Like
an alligator in shape, it 'was tlu'ee hundred
 THE ARTS AND SCIENCES Q}' VENUS. 107

metres in length, and proportionately broad

and tall, This animal, they told me, had been
forced by a peculiar system of feeding to this.
magnitude, that tho Secundines might wander
through itsinterior~ and study thereby physiology
and histology to full advantage, I confess I
was horrified, when Bonitas informed me he
would take me in his arms, and conduct me
through the various vital chambers of this
leviathan Iivo anatomical theatre. Albeit, I at
once donned :n:on-aerial apparatus, and next
moment I was conveyed in' the arms of my
guide to the forehead of the animal, which was
so much accustomed to this treatment that it
offered no objection. Re~a8s11red, Ileisurelytook
a promenade with my guide over the ~mple area
between the beast's ears, eye~brows, and neck.
Bonitas then lod me round the great wall of
one of the ears, and~ by dint .of 11 little climb-
ing, we at length surveyed the large aural
tunnel. In depth it appeared to be nearly
twenty metres. It was protected at the entrance
by a dense jungle of hairs, and further in by
what I ealeulated to he neurlyfoUl' tonnes of wax.
Having quitted the ear-cave, we travelled along'
the eyelid precipice, down the nose-hill, and
108 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

then alongside the verge of the lower shores of

the right eye. The upper eye-lid, which was
as large as the tail of a sperm whale, and which
had a palisade of hairs as long and as thick as
wands) washed down every few seconds a
copious wave of tears, ,vhich ultimately escaped
at the acanthus,
Having blunted the keen edge of my curiosity
by beholding the eye, its PUIJil window, and
its beautiful vibratile iris curtains, we applied
n huge ophthalmoscope, by which we saw the
interior of the ocular camera obscura. We
now wended our way down to the bottom of
the nose. HeTe we surveyed two gaping
tunnels. Halling ventured carelessly forward,
I unwillingly and unwittingly tickled some of
the nasal hairs, which' caused the animal to
.sneozo. In this action sllch a hurrIcane of
1,rind burst from the nostrils) as might ,have
done justice to the hollows of Eolus. Happily
my guide saved me from heing hlovllIl away,
Taking me in his arms, he then almost, before
I was aware, flew with me through the nasal
passago into the capacious gullet. Coincident
with this he lit his elc~tric lamp, by which we
were enabJed to view clearly the internal
'"
 THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF VENUS. 109

arrangements (if the chambers into which I

was now introduced. Having inspected the
suite of chambers for smeUing, we sauntered
ankle deep among muchs, up the eustachian
n

corridor, into the office in which the bmill

conducts its hearing business. Here we wit-
nessed the m.achinery at work) and saw the
nerve-telegraphs bearing their information t{~
head-quarters. We now retraced our steps t(~
the lobby of the pharynx 1 and then roamed
down to the dining'-room of the animal. Tho
huge paunch was vacant. Soon) however;
tomlBs of pulpy food rushed ,in from the
epigastric door, until the ventricular refectory
was loaded with several waggon~loads of 8~li\1
food, and seveml hundred hogsheads of water.
The gastric juice now IJcgan to transude from
the siomachls walls, and simultaneously the
gTeat organ began to twist. and roll J and lash
the food backwards and forwards. 'Vbile the
aliment was thus being triturated and digested 7
we, crept through the pylorie· portico into the
duodenal vestibule. We then swam amid a
river of chyme, now do~wardsJ and anon
upwards, and now forwards and anon back-·
wards, around all the convoh;ttions of the
no THE 'fWEN'rY~NINTH CENTURY.

alimentary eanat This intestinal ineUl'sion

was fully two miles ill length; but the various
interesting objects by the way, especially the
crecurn, formed such an agreeable repast to my
mil1d an.d momorYt as amply indenmilied rite
for my toi1. We next rambled successively to
the panore'as, the kidneys} the gall hlad!lel'
.and liver. While in this last nook, the
Venusian cle\~er1y cut a way by which we
entered the venous system, Previously swim-
ming in seas of bile, and pancreatic and intes-
tinal juices) we were now in streams of blood.
In consequenee of going with the current, we in
a few seconds journeyed a few hundred of kilo-
metres hetween the liver and heart. \\l1e11
we reached its l'ight auride, we baIted, and
inspected the marvellous action by which the
.enginc of the circulatory system, witb its
suetion and force pumps) made so many mil-
lions of vital streams flow through this immense
animal Our curiosity having duly fared upon
the scene, we, by a flank movement from right
auricle to right ventricle) and right ventricle
to vein, and vein to left' auricle, eventually
reached the left ventricle. ,\Ve had not well
entered it when the mighty cardiac force
 THE ARTS AND SCIENCES Ok' VENUS. 111

swept us round the aorta, and dO":'ll, down, dovrll

to the animal's sacrum. By skilful pilotage
we managed to enter the iliac artery, COll-
tinued our comse to the femoral, and then
gradually sought our way into the interior of
the animal's thigh bone. lTornearlya quarter
.of an hour we strolled through this great
osseous pillar. 'Vhilo more massiye than
Cleopatra's noedle) its construction ""vas such
as to raise to unexampled warmth my appre~
ciation of the incredible engineering powers
.of Nature. Alike in the lacunre canaliculre
and in the huge central marrow-tunnel, I
found forage for my mind and my admiration.
We now pushed through an artificial sinus ~
'which had been made in the beast's flesh.
"lflile in this by~wayj we witnessed the alter-
nate contraction and relaxation of the ambient
muscles. 'While here, I was likewise sh~)'wn
the way in which the blood putties up wounds~
buifds up hone, solders up venous and arterial
pipes, plasters on new skin, grows II vegetation.
of hairs, and lays down a pavement of nails
and claws. Having left this Spot7 we steered
our course by a tributary into the femoral vein
canal. After passing, with a little difficulty?
112 TIlE TWENTY~NINTn CENTURY.

through some yalye~loeks, we reaehed the·

ascending aorta, and thereafter the right amide
and right ventricle. Aftm' holding on here for
some time by the heart's chordre tendinere m

l'igging") in order to behold to advantage its·

marvellous economy, we plunged into the
pulmonary artery, The next moment ,vo wero
washed into a cell in the animal's lett lung.
Cutting our way through the tissues, we found
oUI'selves in one of the larger bronchi. So-
mighty was the bellows action of the lungs
here, that I feared we should have been blown
away. But my doubts soon dissipated. At the
first I felt a whizzing and flapping, and when
I. looked up I was standing on the animarS'
upper-lip. Next moment we alighted upon the
ground. After' ablutions to wa~h the blood~
stains we had contracted during 01ll' anato-
mical peregrinations, we rejoined our ftiends.
I was now conveyed to one of the me-
chanical colleges. Here new banquets of
wonder were purveyed to my surfeited senses.
Some sights speeiully entrapped my attention.
Large bodies of metal, on being brought over
a certain spot, were, to my bewilderment,
cut in twain by some invisible power. The
 THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF VEi{US. 113

evidence of my vision stunned my judgment.

rehe explanation; while it allayed Iny clll'iosity)
swelled. my astonishment, for it seemed the
division was effected by a thin jet of air blown
j

with amazing velocity, by means of specially

contrived bellow:a, 1\rnen I betrayed surprise,
the Secu.ndines at once remarked~ C( 1\rl1Y
marvel, when it is 80 plain that air, sufficient!y
concentrated and sufficiently propelled} .coulel
bisect the world itself? "
Another mechanical feat was now executed.
Some mighty logs of wood were placed into a
machine, and in a few minutes were taken out;
compressed into one-fifteenth of their original
-volume. I took up one of the pieces, and
found it heavier than the heaviest metals 7 and
harder than the hardest. A piece of copper
was next inspissated to half its .natural bulk.
Water and. air were thoreafter takon., and.
endued with su.ch· spissitude, that they were
both rendel"€ld weightier than platina. Other
substances, aerial, liquid, and gaseous, were
Rlibjected to similar pressure, and in eaeh easo
special features earned my admiration,
I was still mOl'C astonished at the workings
of another machine. A piece of lead was first
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114 THE 'l'WE)fTY-Nl)fTH CENTURY.

placed in it~ and when takon out a few seconds

lutcr~ it was baked to twenty times its fo~er
bulk, without its texture suffering allY porosity,
or its appearanee undergoing any change.
Uold was then cooked to such a degree as to
1)0 lighter than cork. On. examining tho
metals thus rarefied, I was delighted to find
their solidity and impermeability were seem-
ingly undiminished, while their tensile pro-
perties were increased. A variety of minerals
and vegetables were similarly expanded. A
piece of gold was specially dilated, and rel1~
dercd so imponderable, that it floated about
like a balloon. As I beheld these wonders,
prescient 'V"islons hovered over my mind .of
the mighty mechanical revolutions the w.orld
would see when these inventions were made
known to mankind. I saw that henceforth
aerostats would be made to rise Vlri.thout gas,
and that the heavlest metals would be made
subservient to all machines requiring strength
yoked to levity_
In tho next scientific performanco I was
shown that the steadfast Secundine world,
though it was worthy of being made the
symbol of inflexible fixity, was in their hands
 TIlE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF VENUS. 115

as pliable as day in the hands of the potter.

By dint of a skilful management of the sub-
terrene currents, they made the seemingly rigid
planetar crust mobile. Gradually I saw that the
plain on which we were stationed was rising',
So gentle withal was the motion 1 that the coun-
iry, with its superinc1lmlHlUt trees) did not
·seem to recognize the movement. At length,
after being elevated to the altitude of one mile,
we were slowly lowered. to our :fiU'ITWf position.
To my utter amazement~ these inscrutable
marvels did not so much as cause the slightest
sound, a e:!:-l1ck in the eartM1 crust, or the
uprooting of a single shrub.
I now perceived now alluring and ingenious
were their modes of teaching. For geogra-
phical instruction were gardens, showing in
miniature the maps of the several planets,
gardens wherein ponds represented oceans)
pools lakes, and molehills mOllntains. In the
plot illustrative of our earth, not a single
.detail was omitted., and not a line inaccurate.
:E~or the teaching of astronomY1 were other
gardens, ShOVlf-1.Ilg the orhits and relatl ve situ-
ations of the planets and their satellites. From
these I saw they could measure the stars and
 116 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

their distances to a hair~breadth, and weigh

them to Vlrithin an ounce.
. Shortly after this they gave me proof of
their superhuman power by analyzing my
.mind, and contemplating in me the mildewed
remains of the majestic souls bequeathed to
our first parents. As if my blemished soul had
been visible and tangible~ they by their
amazing metaphysical insight beheld its every
feature, its every flaw, and its every hidden
recess. Nay, so accuratoly did they distinguish
through me the boundaries and dominion of
man's passions and feeling8~ that they in a few
hours delineated diag'rarmnatical1y my spirit,ual
anatomy as precisely as a limner could have
sketched my face. For the first time my ~er
man viewed itself in a mirror. Ghastly and
repulsive was the spectaele. (, Thank God,"
was my exclamation, "that man knows not his.
psychical hideousness 1" Yet the sight was as.
instructive as painful. In the map of my soul
laid before me; I was first struck with the
traces of sin's deluge. I saw the pristine pro-
vinces of rectitude almost overrun by an ocean
of guilt. In place of a huge continent of inno-
cence, as displayod in the cosmos of the Venusian
 THE ARTS L'TD SCIENCES OF VENUS. 111

'Soul, I saw the bOUl'lles of each virtue curtailed,

and invested by seas of sin, I beheld the can-
tonmentsof contentment and meekness swamped
hy the billows of envy and malice, Vanity and
pride had inundated the paradisaic domains of
humility, animosities the realms of love~ selfish~
ncss those of eharity. III S}lOrl; each Christian
grace was invaded and invested bythejagged.and
rugged shores of a contending demoniacal vice,
By a process of mental chemistry, I was then
shown that man in former times was a compound
being, consisting of fifty~one parts of matter
and forty-nine of mind; that thereafter the soui
and body oscillated in a condition of equipoise;
and that now he consisted of fifty.one parts of
mind and forty~nine of matter, The Secundines
themselves I found to consist of an amalgam of
ninety-nine parts of mind and only one of matter. '
Td.iscovered that man was so low in the scale of
intelligent beings, that only three or four of the
nerves of the hrain ever wOl"ked coincidently,
the other millions lying idle.. The thread of
reflection; reason, or imagination being thus
made to ply 11pon n weft with so few nerve
yarns, man's mental fabries were necessarily
imperfect. :Moreover, tho human hrain-loom
118 THE TWf:NTY-NINTH CENTURY.

could not long bear the stress of active weav-

ing. Hard thought was seldom permitted to-
fhbricate its close-spun textures. -rrhrough the
greater part of the day, the shuttle of reverie-
wove its flimsy figments, or incogitancy
toased away at oakum-triHes. I was next
taught that the correlation of forces was wider
in its application than man supposed. For
example, I saw sound changed into lightl and
light transmuted into sound. I learned that
the spectrum was colourts octaYe, and the
musical octave sound's spectrum. I discovered
-that each tint possessed a corresponding musi-
cal note, and that music's diapason and light'r:;
colours could be recipl'ocally paraphrased. I
witnessed red translated into the key c. I saw
a chromatic picture translated into a tune, and
then beheld a piano causing a borealis display
of hues. I saw that the harmonies and discords
of music were identical, and that sound and
colour were but aUotropic conditions of tho
same subtle force. Further on, the tones of
my voice were eollected and made into a
picture. Again, my yoiee was transposed
into a flame. I was also gratified by being
shown many colours of the spectrum which
 THE ARTS AND SCn:l'W.~]S (l:l<' niNUS. 119

man)s eyes had never beheld, and hearing notes

in musio to which man's ears are not attuned .
.F'or aU philosophic problems, however intri-
cate, the Venusians had a solvent. To them
all the sciellees were exaet. Each was redueed
to simplicity and accuracy·-cach possessed it:,;
mathematic:,;. By the study of the geometry of
music and tIl{' algebra of sound I found a roval
, , oJ

road·to pieree to heights othenvlse inaccessible.

Nay, in a few hours I thereby acquired morC"uf
science than 1 had learned in the world in a
century.
A few days Jater 1 was eonveyed to the para-
dise of Hesperus. Thfy tCl'ranean hrethren can
imagine the turmoil of my feelings when I was
led through this Eden, and, above all, when I
was shown the exact spot where the fIrst parmit
of this world had drawn his flrst breath. The
Venusian language itself, armed with such
ineffable descriptive power, has no words
wherewith to paint the beauty of this ulira-
magnifieent retreat. Carpeted hy the most
luxuriant flowors, perfumed. hy the most fra-
grant odours) curtained by trees and shrubs,
inhabited by the most fascinating sylvan
Cho~8t~rs, and with its feet laved by a sea,-a
120 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

sea glittering in daytime with sunheam

diamonds anlI hy night glimmering with moon-
heum pearls,-the scene declared that the up-
holstery of nature· had here expended its
richest efforts.
1 was next shown the spot where' the :first
mam.age had. been celehrated] and was then
Ie!1 to the site where grew the Trees of Good
and Evil. Before me, I conterr~plated the
tempting fruit unplucked. As I viewed the
scene: and then turned my eyes towards the
millions of Venusians a.round who had obeyed
their father in heaven and gained immortality,
I was overpowered with sorrow for poor man.
A thousand grief-arrows transfixed my soul.
The pressure of emotions would verily have
broken my heart but for the safety~valve of
my tears. 'Then I looked up I saw that lPy
intense afHiction had kindled theirs. With
their eyes impearled with tears, they sym- .
pathizingly hurried me away, and endeavoured
to displace my SOITOWS with new objects of
:interesto ]first of all, they led me to a great
cannon) and informed me that it was by ita
means they performed journeys to the Sooun-
dine satellite. Tho 8.nnouncement astonished
 THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF VENUS, 121

Inc) as I know not the Vonusians wel'~ able to

undertake such a feat. It seems, however,
that it was hut recently tho gun had been
forged, and that thoy had been empowered to
travel to the Secundine satellite. I also lea,med
Hesperus was so fertile, and the necessities of
its inhabitants so few, that the colonization of
its moon was deemed inexpedient, It was,
thorofore, only rendered a field for astronomi-
cal inquiry.
With pardonable pride I boarded this orb as
the fifth world upon which I had planted my
feeL Meeting my guides and. myself were
ten thousand Secundines fi'om a neighbouring
observatory, which we made our head-quarters.
As night set in I espied a nocturnal picture,
whose beauty I shall never forget, Standing
at present nearer the sun than ever I had done,
I witnessed a sky (ll'owded with comets and
lavish with scientifiG peculiarities. For a few
days I imbibed hosts of truths unknown to
men, and feasted my eyes on sights unknown
·on earth. Before leaving the satellite's obser-
-vatory I was made peer throug;h a telescope.
I actually leaped with delight when I beheld
. clearly delineated on my mother world a signal
122 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

which notified that in a few months three of

my fcnow~mcn would be pitched to Secundus.
Having by this time circumflitted this little
globo and inspected all its inspection-worthy
objeets) we hastened towards the lunar ferry,-
where I bade it adieu.
On mv ., return to Vemls I asked Veritas how
far the inhabitants had allowed their love of
reseal'ch to make them explore the planet's
dopths. I was answered in a practical shape
by being taken into the interior, and by being
driven through m:yriads of sub-secundine high-
ways. I found Secundus was more honey-
combed than Terra. So completely were its
recesses dissected, that there was not a nook in
its internal anatomy hut had been scrutinized.
Each stratum, each fiery current, and each
subcuticular phenomenon, was know'"Il. In my
tmbterranmm perambulations VOl'ltas was my
guide. In a few hours he piled full many a
valuable truth upon the sholves of my memory.
He supplied me "with the rationale of sub-Venu-
sian wonders; he extricated me from many 01
the intricacios in whieh my mind was wrapt
up concerning my knowledge of the world's in-
ternal uITangoments. So well di'd ho reason
 THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF VENUS. 123

from analogy} that he classified the simila:rities

and dissimilarities of the subcuticular geography
of the second and third planets. With doep
interest I contemplated. his parallel of tho two
spheres, scanned the complexities and :rct
simplicities of nature's plans, and how, while
playing upon laws which were universal, it could
sti1l introduce into each planet special pecu- .
lial"ities} anomalies, and idios:yncrasies.
In-the course of these sojourns I was amazed
to discover that the inhabitants possessed the
attribute of being flre-proof. I saw them, for-·
sooth} swimming in molten cmrents with as
much indifferenee as if they had been bathing in
water. Yet this seemingly miraculous proceed-
.ing was not a miracle, because the Venusian
frame being .entirely spiritual, hating its small
corporeal ash, was not liahle to be chilled by
frost or scalded bv heat. The circu.mstance
"'
caused me to reflect that while it would be
impossible for man to journey and live at the
sun, there was nothing to ddmr the Secundine
from doing this.
Meantime I had been making inquiry con-
cerning the progress of the Secundine inter-
planetar gun. Veritas, who preferred to convey
 124 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

information through the eye-portals to the ear

doorways, led me to a great plain, that I might
be satisfactorily answered. Here I found fac~
.tories around a huge ordnanec. Such was the
skill of the Secundines] that though the astrOn
llomical cannon were the lineal descendants of
those deviligh inventions once used for murder,
• and though man had taken the initiative in the
present movement, the Venusians wore so COmn
pletdy before us in their mastery of the forging
of celestial artillery, that I possessed. no know-
ledge which thoi1~ superior minds had not already
.attained.
Alas, before man can give birth to an im-
provement, an invention, or a reformation, be·
hold what a toiling, droiling, and tunnoiling i
, \Vhat'mental pangs! and how many abortions!
rrhe amazing foresight and insight and the
r:lllrpassing lmowlcdgo of the Secundines save
them from the anxieties of doubt the harass-
ments of experiment, and gropings in the bogs
,of difficulty. By their unerring intellect thoy
hit their mark in onoventure. Bin plants no
stumbling-blocks in,their path} temptation con-
coals no ambuscades. Intuition teaches them
thousands of truths which the world has
 THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF VENUS. 12&

only grasped through the labours of its greatest

geniuses. Wisdom guards them from cares;
forethought shields them from even so much
as the possihility of aeeidents .
. So superhuman was their mechanical acumen 7
that I observed hundreds of devices in COD-
nexion with the ordnance which were immea-
surable improvemeD,ts on man's rude and crude
plans. These I duly noted, that I might tl'ans--
plant Venusian ingenuity to Tenanean soi~.
But my pen trembles, for it now invades.
holy ground, It is about to describe the most
heavenly scene my eyes ever surveyed. ,On
the greatest of the Venusian mounta\ns I saw
assembled the whole brotherhood of V enus~ I
gazed upon partings which' excited no toars-I
heard farewells uttered without sorrow. Gra-
dually several thousands drew themselves aloof
f:t'om the vast company, and cl'owded upon the
mountain top, where hlazed a huge fire. MUSIC
now pealed forth, but wheth~r it lll'oeeeded from
hooven itself or from Secundus I could not tell.
In the midst of the holy raptures of the har-
mony, hehold the selected thousands proved to
be Elijahs and the on-looking millions Elishas,
~Phose about to be translated having entered,
the flames, the small portion of dust which
belonged to their frames was preeipltatml an(l
hurned, and their sublimed purified souIs straight-
way glided to Paradise. Theholloured eompany
comprised, I was told, the aged of tho planet.
Having run their course below in the nursery of
time, thoy were ealled to a grander sphere above
in the realms of eternity. Aged I have styled
-them, hut they were only aged in years, and want-
ing in all ago's attributes. "V cnus/, they told
mc, "though sinless, beauty-fraught} andabOlmd-
ing"with joys andjo)", was, after aU, only a petty
ante-cham bel' of heaven. Our solar system, t)
they added, "IS only a little jewel ,on the outer
fringe of the outmost or firlllt heavens~ which first
heavens contain tho stellar cradles of all new
races. By growth in knowledge these races
are gTadually grafhmtcd from the first to the
unspeakable glories of the seventh heavens.
Yet even thero the souls of' the saints find
l'leope for illimitable improvement, for know-
lodge is an infinity, and progress knows no
goaL The angels Gabriel andl\lichael are to-
-day," they told me, "infinitely advanced in
heavenly truths from tho time they had deal-
ings with mankilld J but still they are scholars,
 THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF VENUS" 127

.and will be so for ever and ever. Endless

.advance being thus open to the glorified spirits~
there is in the future life neither monotony nor
enntt'i~ weariness nor rest. 1J
Meantime I was deeply immersed, in the.
study of the scientific peculiarities of this
planet. Pleasant and happy were my roam~
ings in such Elysian fields. Ever and. anon I
,came upon mighty truths which overwhelmed
me with wonder. Such a feeling inspired me
when I discovered that the SeCllnmne atmosphere
,contained no nitrogen. It consistei solely of
ozone in a condition of great rarefaction. 'rhe
.advantages of such an ether are incalculable.
Its inmates are freed from such ,heavy pressure
.assessments as in our world. Its tenuity causes
it to lenify the i:)un's heat, while it adds to its
hrilliancv" Its unblemishable pruitv frees the
J J

landscape f1"0111 haziness and the skies front

clouds. By its wondrous properties plants are
fed without the eircllmstantial adaptations on
,earth. No cloudy argosies are required to ship
.cargoes of water from tlw seasi an(l hear them
thousands of leagues into the midst of the land.
Heaven here requires not to plant its reservoirs
.and its electric magazines in the skies, for
neither plants nor streams require ram supplies.
By the econClmy of this planet1 the vegetable-
kingdom l'ccciYm! all its sap from the ground~
while the \,abbling) bubbling crystal rills, which,
like robes; flow down from the mountains, have
their origin in mighty springs. Thug the water-
circulation is not completed by an aerial hut a
3ubterrene medium, Here no lachrymose atmo-
sphere weeps out its inconstant grie£", and
deluges the fair fitee of nature. Here the beam-
ing eye of sunshine is never bedewed or be--
dimmed with cloudy tears. .Boisterous floo"de}
a
raging winds, and frowning or sobbing firma-
ment, are unknown. Above all l the ether, being-
ozone) renders Venus an antiseptic globe----a
globe in which baneful germs) vibriones, miasma,
and all the apostles of death, can find no me.
f['hese cognitions led me to suspect that man's
short life and great proneness to disease after
the deluge, had urisen from the earth's ether
being loaded with nitrogen. I had long noted
how infinitely more salubrious was this climate-
than that of mv native world.. Much as I had
¥ '

laboured here, I had neve:r felt the sensations

of fatigue. Little as I had paid attention to
my health, I had never been so healthy. ~rhou.gh
 THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF VENUS 0 129

I had undergone an amount of physical and.

psychical toil which would have killed me on
earth, I had gained. :flesh and become more
vigorous and alert. My intellect had received
its dividend in the profitflo l\1y perceptions were
keener; my imagil~ation was hrighter; my
judgment truer; and my memory strongeI'o Yet~
strange to say, I had reduced my sleep from
six hou:rs daily to two, and had curtailed my
diet to one=sixth of its ordinary amount. Th(!
exigeneies of slumber and aliment, in sooth;
had heen abridged, because here the ozona ted
air permitted so little bodily tear and wear.

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130 THE TWENTY-:~\IXTII CENTURY.

CHAPTEH V.
TERRA~l{ENUSIAN (ECUIlfENICAL COUNCIL.

I fAVING now aequired such a command of the

Venusian language as enabled me to speak with
fluency, Voritas, after he had shown me the
lions of Venus, convened a meeting of all the
scions of this planet, in order that they and I
might discuss together the relative conditions
of Venus and the Earth. I looked forward to
this meeting with fear and trembling, because,
having seen the greatness of this world, I felt
ashamed to be the representative of a race only
conspicuous for its crimes and wars.
After I had beon allowed a fortnight to pre-
pare my mind and memory for the mental strain,
the great (Ecumenical council was convoked.
By millions the hosts congregated. With
magical speed theyensconeed themselvos me-
thodically on a great plain. Each of them~
equipped with auroscopes and speaking~
 TERRA.~YENUSlA.N CECUl>iENICAL COUNCIL. 131

trumpets, was ready either to listen or speak.

I, as principal actor in the scene, representing
as I did the Earth, sat next Veritas, on a great
-platform in tho centre of the meeting. l~hey,
{)n their part, had generously furnished me
with every requisite to save me from fatigue,
while I on mine had aITned myself with
the full library of miCl'oscopic books' I had
brought from the world, in order that where
my memory failed I might be ablo to retreat
upon my authorities.
rrhe meeting commenced withpraise. Veritas,
in introducing the discussion, said it was well,
when the great era of inter~planetal' communion
was about to commence, that each world should
stand taco to face, and compare itself with its
neighbour, in order that the congrogate planets
might arrive at eongregate knowledge. .
In om first sederunt the condition of the
church in both worlds was discussed, and as
the mouthpiece of the Venusians, Veritas de-
scribed its triumphant position, and, amid a
flood of matchless eloquence, showed the narrow
partition which existed between the church of
Hesperus and the church above.
It now: devolved upon me to paint the dark
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annals of church history as regards the earth.,

With tears in their eyes) my friends listened to·
the sad. tale. At its close, Veritas thus repro~
bated the want of evangelical spirit and catholic
ideas in Ohristian eountries in pre-millennial
times :-" Your churcht said he, "in nursing
sectarianism, starved evangelism. Irhere w,ere
differences of opinion upon points where there
should have been indifference, and. indiffer-
ence where there should have boon groat en"
thusiasm .
.. Instead of civilized Isaacs extendingthehand
of brotherly help to uncivilized Ishmaels their un-
concern allowed them to rot in the ruts of igno*
rance, . Oh Christendom! your philanthropy
then lay dusty on the shelves of selfishness t
Your missionary enterprises were mere flea-
bites on the rhi;noceros hide of ignorance!
, , Yow' clergy were not Pauls and Peters, wbo
wandered like spiriiuallamplighters to mumi~
nate the dark alleys of heathenism. They
were mere sermon practitioners, chained, dog~
like, to pulpit kennels. Nor did statesmen
thon adopt, or evon 'understand, the compass
of true statesmanship. With ,them lay' the
duty of preparing the paths for the Gospel
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'advance. 'They ought to have organized huge

.scientific missions, as the forerunne;s of .Chris-
tianity. Legions of men in buckram and
moleskin, armed with hammers and trowels,
and aU the pat'aphernalia of the arts and trades,
.ought to have been sent into the haunts of
barbarism to propagate progress, Iron horses
to invade the lanel) and iron leviathans
to invade the shores and rivers of uncivilized
nations, ought to have been made the evangels
-of knowledge; fur the nwmellt the highways
-of progress had been laid, and tho iron limbs
-of art had pierced through tho hearts of savage
Innds, the armaments of darkness and super-
-stitlon would have been hopelessly demolished.
One day of their rule would have been more
potent than years Df preaching by myriads of
isolated missionaries."
"Alas!" I answered J ~'o'ood
~ e schemes werre not
-congruous with evil ages. Sneering scepticism
vetoed them as Quixotic or Utopian. lhitaiu y
ever searching after wisdom in the fields of
.folly, and after sense in the hot-beds of infatua-
tion, spent m.any millions of pounds and many
lives in liberating some men from the King of
A.byssinia, when the same purpose could have
\
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been achieved by a small outlay of discretion.,

Had it spent the same amount in knitting
Abyssinia to Christendom by the Gordian ties.
of railways and commerC8.1 it would have in
~

due time liberatod from serfdom not one or

two men, hut millions. What was sunk in
behoof of the schemes of the devil in cou-
nexion with the French war of 1870-71~ might
have wedded Asia and Africa with railways
and telegraphs, and planted factories and work-
shops in their every latitude. "t\That Europe
in coalition squandered in the great war-hunt
. of twenty years over the great hunting-ground
of the Continent to catch that man~tiger
Napoleon, might have replenished the lands of
the globe with railways and locomotives, and
its seas with harbours and steamers. Had this
been done, instead of millions of souls being
sent to premature graves by bans, bullets, and
bayonets, the nineteenth century would have,
earned the glories of the twentieth,})
In describing the corruptions which crept into-
l'eligions, I had to admit that Hmany sects only
maintained a position by making their serviees
musical masquerades, and their chapels and
cathedrals mere music-hans, antiquarian.
 TEI{RA~VENUsrAN U;CUMENICAL COUNCIL. 135

IDillleums, picture and statue galleries. Various

passages were recited out of a book, and this
was labelled prayer. Various professional musi-
cians perfonned some music, and this was ticketed
praise. Yet, despite this great show, many of
such churches were so lame, that they were only
able to hobble along on State Cl"utches.))
Our first sitting ended, I was allowed to
rotire to rest, the V cnnsJ.amJ meanwhile dis~
persing themselves oyer the broad expanse of
the planet, to their several avocations. These
they pursued until morning, when they re-
turned in time for my awaking. ~l'hc meeting
having been thus convenod, we discussed the
histories of the two worlds. The nanation of
the Vennsian, I was amazed to find, did not
occupy more than a few minutes. There were
no crimes to chronicle, nor errors to detail.
'l'heir annals on.ly told of a gradual systmnatic
progression along God's highway of heavenly
intellect. As I anticipated, the government
had been a republic since the planet's first
orbit-a. !'cpublic ill which intelligence and
worth had been the only distinctions, and in
which the knee had only been bowed before
the throne of heaTon. W ouId. to God that the
136 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

story of mankind had heen as easily told!

Hours passed, amI I was stilI in the midst of
the recital of man's infamies. "With tears they
listened; with weeping I was repeatedly in~
terrupted, All in all, Iny story was so tragic,
that my heart was wound up to such a pitch of
tension as if it would have broken.
" Human history," I Raid, "is divided into
two great epochs-that of war, lasting 7)000
yeal's, and that of peace, upon which man has
just entered. During the first period, the
world weltered in the stagnations of error.
The t)rrannies of kingcraft, priestcraft, and other
de"vil-crafts) like great spurtIes) kept the
cauldron of human tUl'll1oil in a state of furious
effervescence, Empire::; trampled down empires;
kingdoms overturned kingdoms, paupers ouated
kings, and kingti crumbled into paupers. Might
U8U1l)od right, and right might, in this mighty
heU-tank of human affairs, rendering it· a
surging gurgc of blunders and bloodshed. frhe
vats of historical tumult fermented for 5,000
yoars, when tho billowy- waves of the Dark.
Ages rolled over mau, so ominously that the
torch of intelligence seemed quenched for ever.
" Thq history of man for these hundreds of
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ages eml)odics but one mighty dramu, tho

sorrows and infamies of which filled heaven
with tears~ earth with groans, and hell with
victims.' The wheels of progress were spoked.
Vices were licensed, and crimes sanctified;
peace was contraband, and liberty enslaved;
force was tho sceptre, and the sword law.
Uukiugly kings and unpriostly priests were
the mainsprings, and the rabid rabble the
machinerY1 of those iniquitous times. MiUions
upon millions lived and died ",':!thollt even so
mud] as knowing their chief ond. The world
slept) h11t its sleep was a nightmare, The
channels of usefulness were dry, because the
energies of the vast tide 'of humanity rolled
into the jaw-boxes of inanity and corruption,
It would take months and years to audit the
fearful ledger of guilt .
.. 1\1urdcl' was the first trrtnsgrcssloll after the
fall. The blood which then flowed was the
source of that Satanic river of carnage which
rolled on through tho arid wastes of pre-
millennial ages.
"Yet though the thundering tempests of
war, whereof the devil was the Boreas, were
.ever overwhelming nations, decimating their
138 TilE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

inhahitantsJ~ blasting the crops of intelligence"

and blighting the growih of every righteous
principle, the people were so acclimatized to
devilry, and so benighted by darkness, that
they cried not, and cared not for light. The'
book of history was unread~ or mismad. Thlan
grappled not with the h'agic teachings of the
text-book of iniquity, because the devil had
anayed it with a spurious halo; and mantled its
infamies with the deceitful glitter of regal and
martial pomp. He read it forgetful that it
was but a description of the motley procession
of three hundred generations of CITing pilgrims
through the Tealms of sin and guilt to the grave.
" Even influential men of civilized nationsJ
who would have scorned to hurt a WOrID r
applauded organizations which showered affiic-
tion over continents. Those men would be
found oft clubbed al'Ouud testi ve tables
loaded with alcoholic poisons> One after
another would rise and disgorge a speechr
the end of which was to demand that the
company should take another dose of the,
11l1nd'ul liquor. On went such fashionable
orgies, until the blood of all present was more
or less suffused with tho subtle drug. At such
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feasts the unchristian toasts of the t Armv and

oJ

Navy' was al'11nk with enthusiasm by pro-

fessing Cnristians. Evon after battles where
death amI the (levil lw,d reaped their harvest,
there was little or no contrition for the sins
of the day, but rejoicings in honour of the
victorious murderers. Nay} many while doing·
the aevil's dirty wOl'k prayed to God for help,
ana if successful, they, in their blasphemous,
fondness for a religious pretext, caused To
Demus to be sung instead of Te Diaholams.
Assassination, committed at the behest of a
king, was magniloquently titled patriotism.
J'tlassacre by ball or bayonet gained titles,
medals, and insignia; murder by poison or
poniard l~)d to the gibbet. History itself was
but the almanack of war and the register of'
intrigue. Like Othello, it could say,
i Little of this great world can I speak,
More than pertains to foats of broil and
battle"' "
Into tho details of,the sud tragedies enacted on
the blood-stained wol'ld sta.ze
u
I then entered. As,
my narrative pictured war after war, I noticed
that tho grief and astonishment of the Venu~
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siam! deepened. Ere I had come to the battle

of Armageddon, my utterance was stifled with
sobs. For the time I was overcome. A
Venusian therefore rose, and thus vent{~d his
vexations ove:!' the mischiefs of the blood-hounds
of humanity :-" rrhese licensed homicides, with
their eyes looking through the false lenses of
sin, viewed their battues of man-shooting as
shrines of glory. Ours, peering through the
glass of truth, see them as the shambles of
Satan. Martial fame to our vision, is but a
spm'ious brightness reHected from the flames
of helL Licensed. murderers called themselves
. patriots, though only patriotic in their fealty
to the deviL Their campaigns were Satan1g
missions, and they his evangelists. Surely as
ignorance was the food of war, war was the
l)oison of society, Political convulsions, nal'~
cotism, and intestinal hroils were its effects
upon the lives of nations. By its intoxication
they were ever whirling into the maelstrom of
. revolution. War was but a mighty dmught-
board, in which the mOVO:1 were in killing Peters
to glorifY Pauls, Wardors were political
alchemists, and lethal engines their re-agents.
They decomposed kingdoms, compounded new
 TERRAAfENUSIAN (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. 141
.
map-boundal'ies~ new constitutions, and new
laws. Battle-fields were the gambling-tables
of ambition and power, whereof the devil kept
the bank, and in partnership with death
shared the profits,"
Now, revived from my emotions, I thus
answered these remarks: - U To the cou-
q~ered nations was the baneful legacy of
chaos, crime, and confusion. To the con-
querors there was tho poisoning influence of
national pride or (lospotism, AU pre-millennia1
nations vontured into the regions of vainglory,
and. aU wore swept into ruin and shame by tho-
besom of retribution, Kings who built monar~
chies played. at hou.se-building with the sandF;
of time} and within the water-mark of the tideg
of fate. Their fabrications were as unenduring
as \mendurablo. j ) ,

The shackles of assossment, with which

war's burdens bound each nation, I next con-
sidered. Gi How galling ,to honesty) that
evel-ything eaten~ drllnk~ or worn, should be
mulcted by the tyrannous hand of taxation;
that hallitations, industries, and knowledge
should have ,been scourged with imposts, while
ignorance went not only scotfree, but was often
142 THE TWENTY~NrNTH Cj}STUllY.

pensioned. The exchequers .of war-cursed

.states were pitchers of the Danaides. Suell
was the prodigence of the nations of Europe
in the eighteenth century~ that it took two
centuries ere their heads were raised above
.the oceans of debt. Governments then in-
dulged in such mal vOl'sations of public funds, as
not only oppressed guilty eoevals, but bur-
dened an innoceri.t posterity. Thus it was
reserved for Christ.loving and peace-observing
people to discharge those accounts incurred by
their murder~loving ancestry. :Even states re-
duced to insolvency persevered in extravagance.
Though their lieges were tied to the chariot-
wheels of }lo1och, they boasted of their liberty.
Astonishment itself might have stood aghast to
behold Britain, in its prodigious prodigality,
squandering millions more than its ineome,
age after age, lIpon fruitless and bootless wm's.
"With all its brilliant statesmen, it had no
.Joshua to lead it out of the wilderness of its
difficulties. But politics in those days la.y in
the regions of diplomatic jugglery, not in those
of honest economy; and for one Joseph H ume
there was a who1e regiment of Ruperta of
Debate.
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.. Could the· angels in heaven/, I asked,

.H have surveyed in Godjs universe a seene
."

more sad than the world during those times ?

.could any spect.acle more arouse bITlef than
the hen engine war, with its hoUi8h train
·of deaths and debts, public prodigenee, and
private indigence? With empty exchequers,
.overflowing workhouses, jails, and asylums, the
world was stilI burdened 'with ten millions of
.sworn~in assassins, Its ramparts were filled
with nearly a million cannon; its arsenals were
loaded vvith munitions sufficient to exterminate
the whole human family; and its seas were
defiled -w-ith 5,000 vessels of war, Had other
planets been warring against OUI' orb, could we
have expected more stupendous armamenis?H
Coming to the darkest moments in history's
lught, I showed the· Satanic climu to which
the hellish art had been carried.
(t Instruments of war became so deadly that

their use for o11ly a few hours would have

depopulated nations. Guns were constructed
which could shower havoc) withcllain~shot1
grope-shot, and sheHs, far beyond telescopic
ken. These missiles eould scatter their con-
tents simultaneously over two square kilo-
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metres. The balls couId pierce holes like-

tunnels througoh mountains" The explosive
mixtures wore ::;0 fatal, that if thrown upon
.cities they would have disporsed. thmn. with
the pl'ecipitancy and precision of the blow of a
devouring angel, the fate of Sodom and
o

Gomol'rah. Hundreds of souls would have

been launched wholesale into eternity with
their firesides as their sepulchres, On the Bea
floated iron islands, teeming with armies"
These aquatic fortresses, rushing into the
vortex of hattIe, might at. any nioment have
proved the churchyards of their vast popula-
tions. In the air soared balloon"batteries,
which hurled from the clouds deluges of in-
fernal recipes upon the annies "below, and in
the earth there burrowed armies of military
miners, who schemed subterranean strategies.
The mortifero1l6 l)orfection of the artille:ry was
such that mountain chains proved the only
good batteries. Ten minutes~ firing with it
single battery eouid have swept the army of
Xerxes off the face of the earth, and riddled
th.e battle-field more fearfully than an earth-
quake. An enemy in London could have
besiegod ParIs, France and England could
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o have gone to war without a single Fi'enchman

or Englishman crossing the Channel."
ii Verily," interpolated one of the Venusians 1

"the devil and his angels had then arm eli the
world with the artillery of hell, and trained
men to be fellow-murderers! Nav, they had
of 01

taught men to be the exporters of each other's

souls to the regions of hell and death. _ In
the furnace of war all good principles were
consumed. How justly might a higher hand,
seeing sin:so triumphant) have vented jUllgment '
upon your erring world hy a deluge of blood at
this awful stage you now depict, by merely
letting loose the dogs of war 1"
Being asked to measure the political great~
ness of murder-trading nations a millennium .
ago, I answered :-" If we analyze the hest of
those bad federations-Britain under Victoria,
Gladstone; and Disrae1i-we find the filthy
ingredients of seditions, -agrarian outrage, dis-
content, party spirit~ and repeated commereial
and political eruptions from its volcanie soeiety.
Its population consisted of nearly forty millions
of beggars, servants, jobbers, and drivellers,
who lived on the tm:ritoI'Y belonging to thll'ty
iholliland landowners. The country abounded
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with asylums, hospitals, shops for drinking

pOlson, bl'othels; barracks for the murdering.
profession, and ramparts and forts the altars of
:1Ioloch. Religion itself was rendered an en-
cllmbl'anee. The State and the established
chmches were Siame::;e twins) tied ahnormally,
though .pl'ejudiee long viewed the eormexion
as sacred, rrhe nation was ovcr-ehurched but
umler-ministered. Tho national religion pml-
sessed more sinecures than cures. But that it
was supported by State endowment bIn-d.ders it
would have sunk The statesmen of t.he day
did not know their political algebra sufficiently
to reduce to equations the rights of the several
sects and ofeach citizen. Of this church the King
was tho Pope. But ovon those other bomes who
had thrown off Erastianism had not thrown off
their pride and self~conceit. One named the
Free Chureh, though its existence only oecupied
tho one two~thousandth part of human history,
lindwhlch, whileitlasted,onlyembraced the one
two-t~ousandth part of contemporary humanity,
still pI'ouilly raised its head; and when 3, com~
mendahle attempt was made to' render it
favourable to a Ii;(~heme ofChristiar~ unity, there
was mutiny, beeause some could not suffer its
 TERR.A.~VENUSIAN (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. 147

insignificant individuality to be infringed.

Uusty and cra.nky was tho legislative machi-
nery. A few hundreds of men s~lected by, or
who selected themselves from, the nation, met
in a hall, about one-half of whom ranged them~
selves on. one side of a table, and the rest on
the other side. The proceedings were a union
·of the garrulous and the histrionic. One man
would jump UP1 l111sheath his tongue and
brandish his rhetorie, and with the aeeompa.ni-
mel~t of gestures on his own part an~ occasional
.cheers on the part of his friends, roll out,
perhaps for three hours, volu.mes of sentences at
the rate of eighty wOl'ds per minute. )"Vbile
·each leading speaker's prattle and person were
thus put out on parade, a.nd while the bugbea.l"S
Qf indurated prejudice were stalked about, the
small modicum of modest eommonsense present
was often forced to skulk --into COl"nel'l'l. As a
variation to the garrulitYi a question was
asked, when those who sat upon one side of
the afm:esaid table followed. a man caned the
Premier into one xoom, while those on the other
side followed another man who thinks he should
be Premier into anotlier room. The relative
strength of the two forces was then taken, and
148 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

tho loader who hags the more votes keeps or

acquires office.
It !¥Ioney hunting was universal. Many POH-
sesBed fortunes who possessed not common-
sense. ]\{auy who but for the feudal system
would have been ciphers on the page of exist-
ence, were the lords of mighty lYl.anors. Honour5..
were made genealogical, and wer~j therefore,
often ruvoreed from worth. Gold so henumbed
charity, that a fall in the price of stocks at
home caused more sent!ation than the news of a
battle abl'oad-a battle, mayhap, whereby tens·
of thousands were prostrated in hospitals,
groaning with pains and smelling with sores,
and wheroby hundreds of' thousands were weep-
ing f'm' massacred friends, mourning over home-·
steads and property in ruins, and for prospects,
perhaps blasted for ever. Alas! what a want
of charity in those v/llo studied more eagerly
the price of gold than the price ?f battle 1
H The country's moral temperature was still

sunk beneath the freezing~'point of depravity.

'Vhile millions rushed to behold the b'1illoping
. of a few horses, only the mete fow could be
found to turn. out to hear the wisdom of the
WIse, Such was the texture of the crowds co1-
 TERRA-VEI\'1JSllN (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. 149

lected on a racecourse, that had they been

annihilated by some supernatural agency, the
calamity would have only helped to weed
myriadg of villains from a vinainy-crowded
world. The country, moreover, possessed more
distilleries than colleges, more breweries than uni-
versities, more dram-shops than schools, and more
men who traded in a vocation which poisoned
soul and body than teachers to instil intelligence.
" Prus.sia under William and Bismarck presents
a still sadder picture. It was a huge kennel,
which enclosed the bost pack of war-hounds on
the face of the earth. It was not a nation, but
a camp. Its citizens were: soldiers; its rivers
were battlements; its mountains, bulwarks;
its plateaus~ drillingngrounds; and its frontiers,
a string of sentinel outworks. Its traders
were commissariats; its cities, strongholds;
and its colonies, military outposts. The staple
trade was war. Peace to its citizens was only
a breathing time to strengthen their armaments
and prepare for now campaigns. Under its
polity, treaties were only a.rmistices) and Par-
liaments councils of war, Politics were mere
intrigues to wage or close wars, to levy taxes,
raise armies, extort indemnities, change map
150 THE T\VF...'.i'TY-NINTH CEXTURY.

boundaries, patch or despateh protoeols, and:

mend ur cnd treaties. Never did its leaders
SOOUl at paaen until they were at war"
rrhey with glacial indifference spent milliOllS-
upon millions of pounds in order to bring
sorrow upon millions of people. Prussia ,grew
bJTeat hy undermining the greatness of its-
neighbouring nations. It waxed mighty hy
giuttonouli feeding upon the eamon of the
nations it massacred, However1 between its
apogee to greatness and its perigee therefrom,
only rolled a narrow tide. Built in the middle
of the century with the 8W01'd, it a generation
later fell before the same instrument. The
conquerors were ,then the conquered, and the
subdued the subdu~rs, -
II rro picture FRANCE one would require to

introduce kaleidoscopic effects. It oscillated

from {iespotllim to domo(ll'aey, and from demo-
cracy to despotism. By turns it was king-
ridaen~ prinst-ridden, and mob-ridden. It was,.
now tyranny-tied, and anon career.ing in the
intoxlclltion of freedom. Now the genius of
the nation ruled, anon a .fuler overrulod the
nation, Now one hand held the rudder of
_state, anon thirty millions. To-dllY its people-
 TERRA-VENUSIAN (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, 151

were citizens) to-morrow political serfs. To-day

they stood on a lofty vertex of prosperity, to-
mOlTOW they were eddying in the vortex of
. revolution. To-day they were deciding things
by ballot, to-morrow by bullet, In the course
of a century they alternately entombed and
exhumed lihertv about a dozen times.
"
.. Thenation'sstrengthwassappedhythosepa-
rasitical vegetations, convents and monastm,ies>
In mansions which should have been apprOn
priated for factories or charitable institutions
were entombed hundreds of thousands of eating
amI living corpses. Evading heaven1s decree
of living hy the sweat ,of their brow, they
forsook the world's toil while they continued
'"
to demand their share of the world's comforts)
enjoyed· life's sweets without life's sweats j

and received more than the citizen's liberties

without inc1Hl'ing the citizen's liabilities,
" Those rotten monastie planks in the state
vessel necessarily caused" leakages and dire
consequences. In the cloisters, the energies
which should have swel1(~d the populatiou 1
tilled the soil, dTained marshes~ reclaimed
lands, cultivated the sciences, and excavated
hidden . trnths~ were perverted towards the
152 THE TWE~TY-N1NTH CENTURY.

foreing of prej mliCel'li the stunting of intem~

genee, and tho growth of superstition.
tl "'hen 'the foremost na.tions of the foremost

(~ontinent in the world were so immersed in

corruptions, what language camera can photo-
t,'Taph the debasement and degoneracyof the
others? Ea.ch federation was consolidated only
by the chafing chaim, of selfishness; each
stood as islands amid a surrounding ocean of
.enemies. Like Holland, each had its mighty
armament-dykes to l'esist the tbreatening waves
of invasion; but all in vain, for each in turn
was destined to be overrun by the tide of war.
H Even Bl:itol1s would rather have seen the

wide int~rests of the great republic of humanity

ruined than their country's flag dishonoured.
Their patriotism transcended their philan-
thropy" Perhaps a monarchy !lover -existed
but 'w'culd rathe:e have beheld thousH.mls of its
sons butchered than its potentate insulted.
Surely he would have been a true patriot who
could have said i - ' I win rejoice in the over~
throw of my native country, if therehy the
great family of mankind be benefited! ~ .
U l\f yople Europe, you were then a house

divided against itself. Your centuries of

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wind-sowing wore even then {)~ tho eve of

pI'Oilucing a whirlwind harvest. ,Founding
your proud nationalities on sand and within
the tide~mark of vengeance) you saw not
the approaching waves by which you were
fa.ted to be overwhelmed. Sleeping in the
chambers of arrogant ignorance, or, if awake,
only fighting among yourscives, you thought
Europe was the universe. 'Your eyes were only
opened when they beheld your institutions sub-
,merged by the billows of retributiOlL YO"ij.
knew not that in heaven's sight your wars and.
your statecraft had' long been an abomina-
tiQn~ and that God, to purify the world had for
j

centuries been mustering in China l'tnd ~Tapan

those apostles of his vengeanee who were
destined to overthrow the proud nations of the
earth. The proud military organizations of
those countries in which WfU' had had its resi-
.(lonoe for thou.sands of yea.rs were straws before
the vengeance storm. What, forsooth, was
Europe when it had A.sia for its opponent-Asia;
with more than one-third of the human race
4itS its inhabitants? Petersburg", Berlin J Vienna,
-Copenhagen, Rome, Paris, and London, with
aU their pmud armies; fell beforo the conquerors
154 THE TWE:\TY~XI::>'''H CEXITRY.

like the forees of Assyria beforc the angel of thC'

l.owL
"In yuin, thell) were the vaunted martial
glories of the Continent. The proud banners
overflowing with tho insignia of ,victory were
crUl~;llCd 11.1 the dust; the flags that had fluttered
denance fbr ages wero tOTIl for ever; the
columns, statue;o;, Ilnd temples dedicated to Vic~
tory WCl'C demolished) neyer to be rebuilt. Over-
the whole Eastern hemisphere now fi.oated tbe
:ftags of China and J apan. Thus~ the races
·which were erowhile Europe's derision, were
the races which, in the hands of Providence,
cast derision upon Europe.
"Christendom, in that awful day~ thanked
God there was an America; that there was an
Atlantic Ocean "\vliich, like a mighty barrier, said,
, ThuB far, and no tUrther;' and, above all, that
Heavcn did not intend the mighty conquest for
tho degeneration, but tbe regeneration of the
world.
"TinlC"hardencd prejudiccswcrethen pounded
13y the pestle of fate. The corruptions of king~
craft were exploded. New and nobler stmtas-
of ideas cropped up in the geology of history ~
The races of the earth were so commingled?
 TERRA~'"'EN1JSIAN (l<X;tTMENIC'AL COUNCIL. I5!}
~:
that the rankling rancours between peoples.
wero swept away for evor. Jew and gentile,
bond and free, Tenton .and Latin, black and
white, merged into .one great brotherhood. rrhe
unity of humanity was, for the first time, prac-
tically cOIl8ummated."
}!'urther on I took this bird's~eye VIOl," of the
nineteenth century :-" The human race then
consisted of one thousand millions of bondmen,
governed hy a few thousand taskmasters. Tho
nations of the earth were but slavery clubs.
"
The great majority of the parishioners of the
globe lived in the arctic zones of indigence and
ignol'ance. The affiueneo and influence of the
uppermost ten thousand were purchased at the
expense of the poverty of the lowermost millions.
Our world's social, like its astronomical orbit,
lay between .Mars and Venns. \Var's evils.
buffeted it on the one hand, and sensual follies.
on the other. Society was an ocean of igno-
rance, with only a few islands of intelligence.
Igmn'Rnce bl'ooded more ominously over the·
eart,1 than darkness on the eve of the creation.
Bible light had yet only in tiny rays irradiated
specks of the planet.
H Take a plebiscite of the relative strength
156 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

of true and false religions. How many were

genuine Christians out of a constituency of a
thousand millions: So few, that if we discount
from the consus of Christian lands the chaff
und tares, there remained but a few millions.
3Iohammed himself, on the other hand J polled
:200 millions; Confucius mustered 147' millions.
Hut now behold the force of stone and wood
Hhaped by the chisel of superstition. 'V'hy
iuols-those allotropic fOlms of the Protellil
Satan-won the poll, by claiming more than
one-half of the suffrages of mankind!
"In short," I concluded, H the earth was a
theatre of war. and nations wer.e w~u.·~mongery
institutions. Socially, man's heart was the field
into which were transplanted the noxious vege-
tations of hell; and roligiously; the devil, meta-
morphozed into an image, a Koran, a Dagon,
Gold) or Wine, was almost universally wor-
shipped/'
My information drew a shower of tears from
the Venusians, who at length, through one
·of their number, thus expressed their senti-
ments:-
"Oh, nIneteenth century! you were as fit
to crucifY Christ as the first, and. your brutish
 TERRA~VENUSIA:N (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, 151
,
Bri.tomlj pragmatic Prussians, and fractious
French~ with all their qua~-i-gloriesj were as
£t to be his executioners as the ...Tews and
Romans, Oh, Christendom! you were then
but a mouthful in the impious maws of mock
religions patented in hell. The devil could
muster one hundred men for your oneo Y011
lived in a plane tar Sodom~ which deserved fL
Sodom's doom; yet you vaunted in your sup-
posed strength. Ignoranee, alas! is prone to
swagger on the stilts of vainglory, while true
greatness is content with the paths of humility,
}Ian, alas! instead of blustering and flustering'
amid the fumes of self-applause, ought to have
humbly remembered that he was but a lodger
in a pigmy earth tenement in God's boundles&
celestial estates. Britons llOasted that the sun
never set over their dominions. 01, ye fools!
the King of Kings has millions of l)iJ.liol1s of
suns, to which ours is but a rushIight, shining
upon domains among whieh our .planets are
but granules.
"How mournful it is to view froID .the
barlizan 'of the present the sad panorama of
I)8,st hlstory} the incessant repetition of deadly
combats a.mong the sons of mon! the stream
158 THE TIVE::.fTY-NINTII CENTURY.

of time fined with torpedoes, and sodety ever

inu.ndated with ultra-statistical misery, through
the bloodthirstiness of the vampires of hmna~
nity!
l. Oh, King-stricken centuries! you saw
history groa.n under the mania and delirium of
almost llDceasing wars. You beheld ~he eom-
monwcalth of mankind macerated in a pool
of troubles. 'While an indolent and insolent
aristocracy basked under the sunshine ofluxury
in drawing-rooms, clubs, ga.mbling-hou.ses, and
theatres, the world was burdened by the pos~
session of 800,000,000 souls equally incuIt
and occult. This vast area of humanity,
which with proper attention might have been
an Eden of intellect, was a blasted wilderness,
wherein only grew the weeds of villainy.
Shame to Christendom} that even when double'
the age of :lYlothusaleh, it made no supreme
efforts to burlSt the bonds of barbarism which
enthralled so much noble materiall
" Would there had beon the courageous heart
to have then said, '.£\rise, ChristendoillJ andl'eform
the world! Up yethousanus, whoare±(}llowers of
the cr088~ and raise your 800,000,000 of brethren
grovelling in those labyrinths of ignorance-
 whereof the devil is the dragon, and know-
ledge the only clue! Let the leaven of Chris-
tianity leaven the lump_ 'With this view, on
with your Europeo-Asiatie railwa.ys" Let the
iron horse ride its a.n~conqnering course through
-the deserts of Siheria, into the very heart of
Tartary and China. Animate with the genius
of knowledge and the spirit of commerce
what have heen stagnations from the deluge.
Do this, that the savages of Tartary and the
118athens of (..'lhina may fall into the ranks of
Christianity. Push on) too} your labours into
the heart of Africa. Send not isolated tra.vel-
lers, but d.rive on locomotives, with thousands
of the apostles of art, and trains laden with
machinery, to plant 011 its desolate bosom. Do
this) that Hottentots and Caffirs may crouch
beneath the sovereignty of Christian intelli-
gence. Let the invasions of philantllropy he
prosecuted into the haunts of barbarism. There
let the assaults of religious science batter down
the strongholds of ignorance. Onwards let tho
glorious cause spl'ead~ until all the fungoid vege-
tatIons of error he eradicated from God's earth 1"
This day's slul rcminiseeneos being' ended, I
was all owed to have my requisite l'epose, after
160 THE TWE~TY-NINTll CENTURY.

'whit'h I was again met by the great array of"

the second worlu. In this third sederunt,
tho sociul habits llnd political principles of the
two worldl!i 'wore dil!icussed. On the part of
the Vcnusiaus J Vcr1tRs stated that their planet
having 110 sins, hud no laws. Tho cords of
love were their only restraints. " Our duties
are so fcw and simplo," said he, "that they
could be written on our £nger~nai1s."
Black, black, indeed, was the picture I had
to paint, and that it may be seell my language
pigments, however unskilfully bedaubed, were
not too dismal, 1 will now append portions of
my dCi:ml'iptions. Boing asked to make a 81ll'vcY
of King idolatry in times past, I said:-
"Royalty was the candle around which the
moths of fashion 'winged their Hight. It was
the .great focus of puerile punctilios, and the
forge of empty fashion and emptier titles. Likec
maggots in rottenness, it could only :!lourish in
tho sanious region of rlJ,nk rank. Drawing-
rooms, jete..'?, triUlllphal arches, state carriages,
the muster of war's deathsmen. 'nth their assassi-
nation tools, velvet cloth, bands of IDu.slc, gun~
powder explosions, the incense of fiatterY1
levees and levities, complised the ritual of
 TERRA~YENUSIAN (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. 161

king worship. Guns, with their iron throats and

fiery breath, thundered, while plaudits louderstill
arose from fl.eshy throats. Tho lifo of a king
was a prolonged festivity, commenced with Bal~
yoes of artillery, accompanied throughout by
showers of sycophancy, the sounds of druID, trum~
pet, andeannon; and ending in the toning of hells,
and the pealing of organs. The mighty Juggel'~
nautofroyaltythus rolled Oil, entailing unceasing
obsequiousness. Thevcryinfirmities of the auto-
erat were aped, and his vices sugared with the
name of virtues. Intoxicated with subtle flattery
narcotics, royalty naturally staggered into the
ditches of supercilious assumption. In speaking
of it~ reason might be treason, The caprice
of one man formed the law which ruled millions.
Worldling though I aID, I must say that had
any of our century lived in those days his soul
would have bled to behold kings mad.e golden
calves, and their subjects their worshippers.
"'nat slavish abasement to fall dO'wn at the
altar of pomp, flourish the censors of adulation)
and do that to a man of which the King of
Kings is alone worthy!'
. " Happily, at the close of the eighteenth cen~
wry, in Britain) and, a few generations later on
VOL. HI.
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the Continent, all that ''las left of royalty was the

liturgy of royal c~remonials. Only the dregs
of the cup of former grievances now remained,
in the incongruity of kings :receiving about a
million of pounds yearly for signing those Acts
which the IIousesofPariiamcntreceivodnothing
f'.01' .I.n·j,mlng.
.c..~ ,

H This kingolatry merged into hlasphemy,

'Vhere, for instarwo t do we £ml the most
shameful and shameless of all. dedications
which oyor disgraced literature? "'by, we
find it applie~ to a contemptible king j and
annexed to the editions of the Bible as used
by Britons from the seventeenth to the. nine~
teenth century. Sneaking beneath the authority
or awe of Jam.os VI' j the translators of the
Bible stuff him with the confectionery of
flattery, and call him the Defender of the Faith.
A fool by fate, a king only by accident, he is
nevertheless styled 'Most High and Mighty
Prinee r most Dread Soyereign'1 and most Sacred
Majesty.' A tyrallnieal whelp1 he is lauded as
if, like another Herod, he was a god and not 11
man. He is compared to the sun in its strength,
and his attributes are said to be singular
and extraordinary graces. Last of all 1 the
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:authors, in a rhapsody of blasphemous bom-

bast) pray that he may become the wonder of
tho world. 'What can we can such an execrable
monstrosity of sycophancy but a nook in the
sacred. volume, into which Satan had insinuated
himself-a leaf from hell in the volume from
heaven-an emetic to the indignation of honest
men?
,I But royalty had its N o?lcsls. It was sm'-
rounded by myriads of troubles which humility
:and mediocrity escaped. rrhe tinsel of its
,grandeur was only the bait of temptation i the
,glitter of its power was only the veil of its evils.
Despite its sceptre, it was hopelessly enthralled.
Love was sacrU1ced on the altar of political ex-
pediency. Intermarriages were the result whose
<eml was to instil into the progeny the curses of
imbecility. No marvel royalty was a soil for
t* tf 'if

atrocity, and that for one Aln'oo there should

be
•
a dozen Henry the Eitrhths and for one
v b '
Victoria a hundred Cleopatras, In royal
blood prejudice would fain helieve thero was a
virtue, though circumstances so oft betrayed
its hUlnall impuxity.j)

Tho Venusians were much astonished and

deeply affected hy my details. So much, indeed,
164 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

that one of them thus satirized kingolatry;-

HI pereeive that monarehy~ if unlimited, was·
a tyranny, and if limited, nothing remained hut
the name and the expense. Oh 7 ye who raved.
about the di"vine right of kings, knew ye not
that God formed his beloved people into a
democracy; led. them through the- wilderness a
democracy, and that a democracy they would
have remained. but for their perverseness? In
their infatuation they cried for a king when
Heaven desired them to remain a republic.
Through Samuel, the divine protest was entered
ag'amst . the institution of monarchical govern-
ment. ' I will give them a king in my anger/
was Jehovah's menacing coudition, I weep to-
say that even Christ} when He .took the form
of man, eschewed the garniture of pomp, and
assumed the garb of lowliness. A stable was.
his birthplace, a cross his death-bed; amid
perseeutioIl he was nursed1 amid gibes and dis-
honour he died. His disciples were nhosen
from those who were spurned as the rabble,.
His associates were Luzal1l1:"1tls. Hia crown waa.
of thorns, His coronation was a cruc:ifucion.
His wa.ys wer~ a denunciation of sham, fashion,
and luxury, His work lay in the haunts of
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-darkness) because light there was most

needed" His life taught the humility of sub.-
limity, and the sublimity of humility. He
showed that the paths of heavenly dignity lay
through the valleys of humbleness. Oh, man!
how could you suffer to behold the son of the
King of Kings, treading his own world ill the
very thickest 'of its sorrows, despised and re-
jected, living poor and dying a martyr, while
you honoured and glorified the proud and
,arrogant sons of impious men, worshipped them
as heroes for doing nothing, and titled them as
royal because they were sons of their father?
In the humbleness of Christ's reign on earth,
what an anathema on the circumstance of
royalty, and what volumes of encouragement
for man to tread the footsteps· of the blessed
Lord, far from the blaze of grandeur, in the paths
of God's own engineering~those of hummty.
" By what. mortals has the devil had "more
credit than some of the specimens of royalty?
Though many of them had served an apprentice-
ship in hell, their deeds could not have been
moire devilish. Hut kings' hearts were ever
favourite lairs of Satan. ·While the verdant
:valleys of humility reared the genial vegetation
166 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

of virtuc, the icy pcaks of pride were the siw$ .

of tempestuomi barrcnncBs,'J
rI'he mutability of things earthly I next
porlntyed.
"1¥Ian;s only constallcy 'was his inconstancy,.
Ullchanging was his continuity of changes,
His mind was a kaleidoscope. }!'o:rms of
government, kingdoilll:l, and realms were
mushrooms in the fields of rl~ime. Laws were
quicksands, continually shifting with the change-
able currents of public opinion. Ab:ruptr
stormy; and spasmodic were the fluctuatioDs
of political thought. In the firmament of
human affairs there was no pole-star of inl-
mutability. In the ocean of man's annals there
was no calm .
.. As soon as great principles were born, there"
was a slaughter of the innocents by the Herods
of history. Legitimate fame was but.cherCl4,
and pastard fame usurped its place. ~
~lbowed Abels out of their merit-cut niches.
;:\Iexandcrs thrust aside Aristotles, 1VellingtoDll
Wilberfol'ces, and Napoleons Newtons. POPll"'
larity was a fleeting borealis, There was but
a day between the strewing of palms· and the
!lrncifixion, and between the shout,s of
 , Hosannah ' and the howls of .: Orucify
him.'
" Rome'IJ
j) said. f1 on the summits of glory •
was Rome on the scaffold of its destruction.
Greece at the meridian of its fame was Greeco
on the eve of its fate. Carthage, with tho
world crouchillO'e; at its feet , and with Rome ill
its prime of historical manhood within its
grasp, was Carthage on the point of its doom.
The empire of Alexander had just reached the
solstice of its grandeur when it was shivered
into atoms. Tho extensive realms of Charle-
magne had just reeoivod their cope-stone when
the grand. territorial edifice was sundered into
its elements. Napoleon when at the climax of
his power was just about being hurled into the
bathos of his downfall. The citadels of cartJ::.ly
glory are only raised to he the m<?ek of
heatlen and the play of destiny. Grandeur's
vertex always overlooks destruction;s "Vortex.
&( All nations, even in then" brightest days,
had an unstable equilibrium. 'rhe palladium of
society, Christian equality, was not to he found
in the pharmacy of the past, and if it had been
it would have been stolen by some crafty
Ulysses. The ub'Tuxian hw was a noble con-
168 TIlE TWENTY·NINTH CENT1T.RY.

cf)ption, and Sh'OV'8 to win that Hesperidian

applc J political equality, but tho dragons of
ignorance amI bigotry provented this con~
lmmmation. Soeicty, shattered by discord,
pickled in prejudice, and sundered into castes
and. clans, could not have these constitutional
iUs healed by the mere external form of
gwn:rmnent. rl'hat thousands should starve
in tho midst of plenty, and m:Yl'iads wallow in
the filth of luxury,vhile encompassed by the
haunts of hunger, was surely symptomatic of
;:lad political diseases .
•• By the remedies adopted ill modern times,
the rich were relieved of thei}' burdens and
tho poor of their wunts. The fickle, flickering~
lurching) social seesaw of poverty and luxmy
was swept from the earth1s face, and the prayer
of Agur allswered to all mall.kind. l1
Iritledom I skotch thus :-" rritles were
hereditary property. They were not merit-
won, but lineage-acquired. Hoy-al caprice, was
honour's mint. For this roason fools oft wore
coronets, ignoble men oft went by the naUl6 of
noble lords) and un.gracious potentates by the
title of most gracious majesties. Kings un~
exceptionably boasted of possessing their
 TERRA~VENrrSIAN (ECUME.:.'UCAL COUNCIL. 169

power by the grace of God, whon it was

generally through tho disgrace of nations.
"Priestcraft was immersed in the same
fungoid vanities" Irreverent men were fre~
qucntly dubbed reverends~ and scoundrels
holinesses. Under the shadow of these and
.similar titles, stolen fro;n the repositories of
pridc~ they oft tried to bo tho dictators of the
laity. :Mongrels betwoen statesmen andtithe~
mongers, they were now wielding their sceptres
.over hishoprics and anon plotting in the fore~
front of rebellious revolutions ?r party strife.
rl'hey rushed into the crime~paved paths of
political intrigue as if serrates had been their
dioceses: cabals their religion, and statute-books
their Bibles.
" After the broom of commonsense had swept
.away from the world's 11001' the idle sham gf
;aristocratic pride, the vanities ofblasphouHIUf'l
titles, and the other pollutions and 1,Vl'ongs of
1hoso times perpetrated under the rule of those
who used the pretext of divine right for their
infamies: soeiety orewhiIo hreathing sterto-
rously, breathed freely."
To the inextricable perplexities and com-
plexities of law in past times, I thus refer;-
170 THE TWL~n:-:Si:STH CESTIIRY.

" Laws SO multiplied that they became laby-

rinths, fur 'which even their Ariadnes, the
lawyers, posscs::;ed no cue. Law, with its
he;[J:ry fH"lllOllr, \\·as so ttl ow in its movements,
that H('et~t~luted ~FUi1t oft eseaped its vigi-"
lance. Yet legh:lators were slow to see that the
more dcerees there '\"j;rc~ justice was the more
diluted, and that ~i8C legislation lay not in
heaping uu 0&;01 of new upon a Pelion of old
<:naetmelltl"1 out in condensing the subtle
csscnc:c of equity.
~~ Of modem jurisprudellce I can tell a bettcr
tale, for its majesty lies in the fuct that we
have not hewn out for oU1"i:ielves broken cisterns,
as did past nations. They adapted man's laws
to man, but we God's laws to man. rrhe King
of Book:;, containing the epitome of all justice,
could the statute::; cxtr.meous to it be otherwise
than rotten? The Bible being the charter
containing the condition:> upon which our
Creator has granted Ut' a lea.."-Chold of thi&
earth, how hase was mau's presumption ttl
lerllore
e God~s I)rol)rictUl"'I; ricrhts
~ a , b1.,¥
.I
taking the
law into his 0",11 hands ! ~~
Being asked to make an appraisement of the
Tanities of man in the nineteenth centmy, I
 TERRA-VENU8UN (ECmIENICAL COUNCIL. 171

said :-'~ Than fashion, not a despotism was

more tyrannical. It was an institution to-
license s!lam and humbug. By its -customs, the
irreverent, if rich, were reverenced! and the-
dishonourablc, if wealthy, honoured, while
honesty clad in poverty was spUl"ned and
ignored. Gentility amI gentlemanliness J
whieh by the geometry of commonsense
should have-been paralle1, took wide1y (livcr~
gent angles. Itsballeful reign reached an
ovorweening culmination in this century.
Fashion's pedantry was then the }Jolite. learn-
ing of civilized society. The critical acumen
of millions lay in millinery and man millinery.
By theu" creed, poetry lay in embroiderYf
genius in the cuts of dresses, sublimity in
shapes, nobleness in noveltitts, and digni~y In
dandyism. Men, and especially women, 'were
walking wardrobes} and were valuated accord~
ing to their budget of trollopes, gew-gaws, and
gimcracks f of which their bodies were the
show-boards. The anatomy of dress was
"
almost as intricate as human anatomy.
Fashion made the Proteus its ideal for -shapes
and the chameleon for colour; what was the
l'~ge to-day was antiquated to-morrow. reha
172 TIlE TWENTY~NINTn CENTURY.

peacocks of fashion moulted their gaudy garbs

every few hours. In the course of a short day
there were the different plumages of morning
dress, walking dress, visiting dress, full dress)
and evoning dross. In tho sh!lpes of these
various liveries there were now hypertrophies,
anon atrophies. Often the head would be
buried, while the bosom and back were. bared
for the inspeetion of the curious, and generally,
while the }ul"?ds were carefully hidden in leather,
the arms were ranging freely in a condition of
nudity. The imperious rule of fashion was an
unceasing reign of novelties, of which the lust
was alone orthodox.
It Levees, d.rawing~rooms, and balls were little

more than the exhibition of dress and jewellery

on human pegso Nay, with brass which could
snub sanctity itself~ fashion sacrilegiously made
the very church a shrine for its follies" There
"
gems glittered, silks rustled, head-dresses reared
their proud structlll"es, and there was breathed
aU the perfumed but poisonous effluvia of
vanity. 'While religion spoke from tho pulpits,-
pride preached from the pews.
" The fools of fashion oft bore more on their
hanks than would have fined the bellies of
-, -"~
 TERRA-VENUSLL."'f <ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. 173

their poorer .brethren for years. I 'While the

victims to dandymania had each as many
dresses as might equip a sman army, those in
the antipodes of SOel(lty were in rags. Verily,
the fop of fashion was more deserving of the
epithet the • ninth part of a man,' than tho
tailor to whom he gave needless work .
•, Fashion! s pedantry entailed a daily penance .
of hours at the toilette on those puppets who
strove to keep apace with its hurried and incon-
stant march. rrheus was Narcissus' fate, with
this difference, that while he pilled through
viewing his own beauty, they languished
because theu attempts to procure it were vain.
By their suicidal system, their symmetry was.
distorted, their pockets emptied, and their
lives shortened. Every effort was made to
render the human face inhuman) and to rob
the form of man of its manli11CSg, Wmnell
especially wore the mart)7S of fol1y. Their
feet were imprisoned in leathern jails, their
waists were bridled, their chests incarcerated,
their necks enchained, their wrists handcuffed,
their fingers manacled, and their ears pierced,
and made the pegs for hanging pieces of stone·
and metal On their heads was reared such a.
174 THE T\VE~Ty-)aSTn: CENTGRY.

rigt,rlng of straw, silk, horse-hair~ hu:man hair,

grease, motall'l, beads, und feathers, as made
the world perceive the wearers were more
arnbitious to adOl'n the outside than the inside
oftbeir skulls" Outragcd nature, as a reprisal,
took tho roscs from their cheeks, and trans-
planted them to the tip of the nose. By
consulting antiquarian albums, we find the
females of those times a pinehed, pallid, deli-
cate, and dyspeptic generation. Thei! raw-
honed, gaunt) lank figures, their juundieed
emnplexions, tbeir rotten, or more oft, thHir
false teeth 1 their serofulous eruptions, their
hysterical weaknesses, formed tho indemnities
of their vanities. \\-'bat a contrast to the Eve~
of our time., when Nature is the onIv "" cosmetic.
and Virtue the only enamel; and when all are
blessed with health) and therefore beauty!
"Those perversions of the body sealed their
mark on the soul. The base bias of fashion
drifted its protegees from the highways of
truth into the bye-ways of scandal. External
finery was too frequently the symbol of internal
disfigurement. Tho tongues of the drones of
fashion were oft. as false as their teeth. What
was within their skull was oft as bloated with
 TERRA~VENUSIAN (EC'UMENICAL COUNCIL. 175

trifles as that without, and their souls as mueh

feaught with deformities as their hodies.
H Only in the rank soi~ of ignorance could

those Upas-vanities have flourished. Philo-

.sophy's teachings are d.isinfectants to the
poisonous infection of pride; What were the
Bilks of those proud dress-mongers hut tb~
>6XCl'ements of insfwts? The original OWilfl!'S of
their wigs were, mayhap, the prey of worms"
rpheir pearls were the diseased concretions of
.a moUuse, amI their diamond.s only pieees of
carhon, destiuml when man made them arti-
fieiaUy, to hecome more plentiful than pebhles.
.oh, that those proud coxeornhs had learned
that a bushel of ashes on a road was more
useful than a thousand jewels in a casket!
Thanks to the Lllthers and Calvina who
conducted the crusades against those corrup-
tions, they emancipated humanity from t.he very
snares hy which the angels themselves feU.n
WhH e upon tb e' text of the fail' sex} I referred
10 their unfair usage by the other sex;-
"Females were eonsif:,:rtled. to the iimbo of
political duress. They had no electoral and j

few legal rights" ""1lile in the eye of punctilio

they were entitled to he pampered with a whole
ITQ TIn} TWENTY-NINTH CENTUBY.

mikisal of gallantries, in the eye of law they

were dullards and dotards, unfit to look after
themselves. In the eye of etiquette, they
were angels, of a purer mould than ordinary
humanity, and therefore deserving of obse-
quiolls attentions. In point of law, they were
somi-serfs or squaws. They were, therefore,
chased from the area of political privilege, and.
from high intollectual spheres, and encom·aged.
to prostitute their talents in eultivating coquetry
or prudery. Midnight ,,-lowed them full-fledged
with all the trappings of affectation, while noon
saw them shorn of their adornments and airs,
and lying half-siek and jaded on sofas or in
bed. rrhml man enticed women to trade in
fopperies, fripl}ories, and flirtation, to barter
among each other' ruthless and truthless scandals,
to fare on the carcases of' murdered. reputatiolli!r
and to plITsue all the paths of indolence, while
he denied them the full prerogatives of eitizen~
ship. This ultra on the part of man IIIoduced
another ultra, in raising a class of unwomanly
women) who wrongly raved about their rights,
To such wild bounds did they fiy, that they
launehed sorties of their forees into the mascu-
lino professions. For a time there was social
 TERR.A.-VENUSUN (ECUMENICAL COUKCIL. 177

disorder. Woman, instead of being a rib of

man; attempted to make man her rih.l'
Further on I trod this path of argument : -
" Let llS now enter tho churchyards of those
times, and we shall find they were but grass-
plots, with corpses crowded below, and fulsome
:flatteries and lies placarded ahove. The tomb-
stone oft pointed to heaven as the rest of those
who 'had their quarters in the mallor of the
devil. Scoundrels received saintly epitaphs,
and dead rogues were applauded as heavenly
seraphs. Pedanh'Y-the dandyism of erudition
-one of the Lues assumed by the chameleon
vanity; was here prominent. rrhe mother tongue
was esteemed vulgar as the vocabulary of epi-
taphs, and the obsolete language of heathens
was therefore introduced. Yet) unwittingly J
this was a blessing) as it saved all but linguists
from reading dishr'Usting adulation and nauseous
hyperboles. lVisdom itself shrewdly treated
their meaning, like Hebrew letters, by reading
them the contrary way.')
At this point I was asked to explain what
was exactly meant by churchyards. In .reply,
I said that "formerly men had 80 little sense
of what was sanitary or salutary, that they
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preforred eorpsos to moulderl rot, and stink in

holm; dug for them in certain plots of ground
('aHed by this name) than to subject them to the
I'peody, wholesome, and less repulsive system
of cremation. In such place:'> lay Khip-Ioads of
human carrion in a condition of slow decom-
pOSItIOn, Even congregations worshipped in
chapels which wore charnel-houses, containing
more bonos of tho dead than souls of the living:'
The Socundineswcre greatly disgusted tn
hear that the tabernacles of men should have
been consigned to filthy worms and putrifying
rottenness instead of puri(ying fire. They
were stiJI more horrified when, at their "ish, I
explained the gbostly and ghastly nmebrial
customs of those times,
it After a person died/' I said~ "his remains

were wrapped in nne linen, Ho was then

carefully packed into a. magnificent and fantas-
tically shaped box, loaded with ornamentation.
'There!lfter, at a specified hour, a number of
people, in black liveries, met, and in their
presence the corpse casket was brougllt out
and covered with velvet) laid on poles, and
then carried to a piece of groundillled with
the carcases of human beings. Here in a hole
 TERRA-YENUSIAN (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. 179

the remains were placed, when two lien buried

them up by the deft use of shovels. The
mourners then retiredJ and the ceremony was
at an end.
~'These vanities were eamed to a still
grm~ter pitnh of filreicality hy the rich. With
tbem obsequious ohsequies took place whieh
smelt more of tho vagaries of the daneing-
master than· of the gravity of the mou.rner. No
flooner had the soul departed~ than the body
was made the butt of buffooneries. It was
·embalmed, dressed IIp as an effigy] and. made
to. ape me. It was carefully exposed in the
midst of a great flare of candles, daylight, as
in the theatre, being refused admittance. The
<corpse was now ready for public exhibition,
whieh was eal1ed lying ill state. Thus finery
...rurted with death, and vanity coquetted with
-carrion. After prid.e had.l)oen glutted with this
public parade of dea.d matter, tIle neatlytoiletted
corpse was scaled up in throo or four magnificent
nested hoxes. These wore in due time taken
out a.nd platled in the front of a great imposing
pl'Ocession, marshalled for the purpose. . Theu J
.amid. the sounds of music, hells, musketry, and
cannon, on movod tho multitudes to the phwo
180 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

of sepulture, Bands played; honeyed orations

were recited, the organs pealed out the most
heart«thrilling chords~ while choirs poured in
their tributaries to the rivers of melody and
harmony. Pride, which had so loftily carried
out all these glittering, gaudy, sepulchral con-
ceits, crowned its coxcombry by a lavish outlay
on mOllumen,ts,n
This brought me to speak: of another section
.of the world's vanities. C( A mama for monu-
ments," said I, t( existed in the nineteenth
century. Shakspeare, Milton, and a myriad of
others, who travelled through the dusty paths
of life as l.azamses, had more erected to their
memory than the purse of Crmsus could have
affOl'dedo Memorials were uhiquitous. ThO'
churchyards could not contain them) and they
overflowed into the streets. Publie haunts weN
oft more populous in statues than men; chapel*
possessed more monuments than members;
lihraries moro husts than .rcaders; and public
parb oft eontainod a, more prolific crop of m&-
morial trophies than trees."
Theso facts awakened mu.ch SOITOW in the
hearts of Venusians, one of whom rose, 8lld
vented the following reflections;-" Sueh "I
 TEBRAa'V-:mUSIAN <ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. 181

,exeess of vain trumpery) such a prostitution of

art, and sueh a stigma upon mankind, were
these follies! They were a,ssuredly the excre-
tions of emaseulate ages. Nations, in the noon
of their greatness, could not tolerate such toys.
Not till their decade did they fall victims to.
such frivolities. To the eye of sense, statues,
pilJars, and columns were the idols of pride
and the emanations of vanity. They were not
a tl"ibute to the dead, but a reproach to the
living. It was a testimony that true men were
wanting when Britain at last stooped to such
puerile levity as to make men out of marble)
brass, stone, and stucco.
"Oh that man had then thrown away his
Imnkerings after suell inanities, and addressed
himself to heal the wounds of bleeding society!
Instead of raising stone and brass dolls in public
haunts,, his duty"
demanded that he should have
l)oen raising men of flesh and bloO(l from the
depths of error and ignOJ:ance to the platform
-of knowledge, But British nabobs, while they
launched out willingly theh thousands to make
a stone effigy, oft grudged a penny to feed a
living, heaven~made man. 1~hc money Britain
wasted on tho carving of 811eh idols might surely
182 TUg '['W}:NT1"~NIN1'H CENTURY.

haye knit an the nations of the earth by thEr

loying ties of railways and telegraphs. The
stones cut for spectacle might have built homes
for the homeless, the brass and iron might have
been heaten into machinery. Had this heen
done, what a monument it would have been!
Tho whole world would have reaped the benefitt
the whole range of posterity would have in"
herlted the fruits,}}
In the last day of our council I was princi~
pally engaged in describing the philosophic
hallucinations which affected the world at the
beginning of tho twentieth century. Germany
I showed to be specially warped by such corrup-<
tians. Thus I narrated its transit through the
era of scientific infatuation : -
,. The nation, after marching through a vista of
glories, eventually became a prey to the phrensy,
of certain Don Qui.::wtes of seienee. 'rhe old
oligarchical and political distinctions were
sponged out of the public records, and only
scientific sects now reigned. In eleetions and
in councils liberalism and conservatism were nO'
longer debated, but tbe merits of phrenologiSllll
physiognomism, and other cognate isms. fu
prbcess of time the weakel' denominations suc-
 'fERRA-VENUSIAN (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. 183

cumbed) and the nation became divided into

the two groat parties, the phrenologists and
the physiogrlOmists. Long and keen was the
battle between the two sides. Senator Nozzlo j

a man with a nose which seemed a compromiso

between that of a man and the trunk of up
dephant, led the physiognomists. Seconded
by other giant-snouted individuals, ho framed a
creed, by which it was asserted that the figure
of the man represented the cast of his mind,
and that the nose was NatUl:o's gauge by which
genius and talent could be accurately estimated.
"With this preamble the declaration of physio-
gnomic faith went on to show that the nose
should be taken as the index of the abilitv of
. J

man for fillin olY all public situations.' that the

large-nosed should, therefore, be elevated to
all important offices, and the possessors of sllub
noses lowered to their proper sph.ere as the
residuum of the human family.
"Dr. Cephalic, who possessed a head which
towered like a miniature world on tho atlas of
his sllOu.1ders, and with bumps upon hIS eranium
which had long stood out as wonders in the
pluenological world, was the leader of the
opposition partY1 and eloquently disclaimed
184 THE TWENTY-mNTH CENTURY.

against the hollow mucus-tenanted nose being'

nceepted as Naturals metre for the worth of
mind, and showed by millions of examples, from
the time of Adam to himsc1f, that the hrain-
tenanted skull was alike the casket and the dial
of the mind, Along with several big-headed
associates) he therefore issued a manifesto indi-
cating and vindicating the true principles of
phrenologism. ~rhis enunciation focussed such
force of reason and arrrUInont,
o • that in the :first.
great g'eneral eloetion under the. scientific
dgirne, Dr. Cephalin's followers were returned
by large majorities in more than throe-fourths
of the constituencies. The learned Doctor was
aceortlillgly appointed the Prosident of the
nation, and empowered to conduct the affairs of
State aceording to phrcnologieal principles,
According to hiH friends, his rule in.stituted a
great and ni}ble reformation; accord.ing tD his
opponents, it created a ruthless revolution,
Phrenologico-metrcs were supplied to all the
various towns, and a census taken of the cranial
eapacities of all the people in the nation. A
graduated seale was then fi-amed, by whic~
the hest skullod men were plaeed into the best
situations, while those who held offiees formerly
 TERRAuVENUSIAN (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. 185

were ousted from-their positions without com-

punction or compensation) proviclca their heads
were 110t large enough, All eommon financiers
and accountants) for instance, were ordered by
law to have their statistical bumps as large at)
3, the higher financiers to have theirs as high
as 6, while tho Chancellorship of the Exchequer
was awarded to the man that could display the
best bump of arithmetic, provided his cranium.
possessed the other oRsential requirements,
In this way, the larger the head the greater
was the promotion. Those with large humps
of amativeness, no matter what was their
character, were made the governors of hospitals
and the managers of philanthropic institutions.
rrhose with good bumps of music were appointed
-the leaders of tho musical world) even though
they knew not a quaver frOtn a crotchet, or
harmony from discord. On the other hand~
those, however honest and upright, who had
large hu.mps of destmctivcness, were placed
under Government sllrveillance, and their sup-
posed evil qualities publicly advertised, that the
lieges might bewaro of thom) seeing that: accord~
ing .to the markings of nature, murder lay latent
within their souls, and at any mo~wnt might he
186 THE TWENTY~NINTII CENTURY.

developed. These new laws necessarily caused:

great disturbance in the land. One hundred
thousand men ,yere cast out of good berths, to find
a subsistence in the pursuit of tho most menial
occupations, while another one hundred thousand
wererall;od from the gutter to be statesmen,ora--
tors,lawgivers, and rulers. :Many geniuses were
hurled from tho pinnacles of fame, and decried as
fools i many blockheads were raised from the
gutters of 1:itupidity, and extol1ed as sages. But
the groans of the fallen malcontents Wel'e hushed
by the jubilations of the pl'OIDoted big-heads.
The people were told that the presentsubV81'sioll
of affairs would soon redound to thedcrnal glory
of the country. Dr. Cephalic, upon the faith
of these hopes, was enabled to rule fOl' some
time with sel'enity. Unhappily, phrenological
intrigues and corruptions began to creep into
tho country. 'T'hose were most deliciolls tit-bits
of satisfaction to the soul of the vanquished
sonator, Nozzle. His spirits roso as he discovered
eaeh new affiiction which the phrenologist had
heaped upon tho unhappy nation; and when
a.t length the registrar's l'eports showed that
infants wero dying at the rate of 50,000 yearly
from hydrocephalus, induced by a cruel system
 TERRA~VENUSllN <ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. 187

which was being pursued to mould and enlarge

their heads, he, under t~e enthusiasm of his
patriotism, lifted up his hands and praised
heaven, Glorying that he was able to lament
over such egregiou8 brutality on the part of
his opponents, he rallied his party, resolved to
cut the cataracts from the mind's eve of the
01

nation, and show that the nose was the true

dial of the intellect.
if Having embued the big~noseB with courage~

be at length uttaeked the GovernnumL Warmly

he impaaehed its members for having counte-
naneed errOl'S and crimes. The system of·
cranial moulding he declared to be a heinous
sin against human and divine law. Nature, he
said, was punishing man daily for his wicked-
ness by slaying those innocents, who in time
would 'have become the bone and sinew of the
nation, A few years' continuance, he main-
tained of pln'enological abuses would suffice to
j

decimate the population and ruin the country"

He then charged the Government with other
high m'imes and misdemeanours. He declared
that many had attained to important offices hy
artifi.cial subcutaneous deposits over the skull 1
and he closed hy accusing the Chancellor of the-
188 THE nn;;./TY-NINTH CENTURY.

Exchequer himself of this deceit) boldly alleging

that his bump of arithmetic was no more
genuine than a mound ,vas a hill. The physio- I

hrtlOmisis haekcd their leader, and eagerly de~

manded that the head of the Chancellor of the
Exehcquer should be examined before a oom~
lnittoo of the whole House. Fierce was tho
dehate, hecause, while Dr. Cephalin opposed
the motioIl 1 he was not supported by more than
the half of his Bupportm's. Dr. Cephalic, deter-
mined, however, not to sUlTenderj appealed to
tho country) but, unfortunately, with tbo
result that many hig-pates were blotte(l out of
the parliamentary roll in favour of big-noses.
But Dr. Cephalic's heart was as mighty as his
head) and he met this reverse by simply making
the Chancellor of tho Exchequer tho scapegoat
of the Government. Accordingly, this unfo:rtu~
nate minister was brought to the bar of the
House, that his head might be examined. In
the first day's trial the head was shaved, and
an exact cast taken of it in plaster of Paru,
replicas of which were supplied to each M.P.,
and to the various newspapers and public in·
stitutions of the land. . Now came the brunt of
battle. By dint of microscopes and a host of
other instruments, Senator Nozzle discovered
that the complexion and contour of t.he arith-
metic bump were suspicious. He, therefox'e,
boldly reiterated his conviction that tho
eranium was enlarged artificially and to set
j

the matter at l'est, he demanded that the seall'

should be reflected, and the bare bone exposed
to public inspection. Aftel' a fiery debate) after
the wildest pl'otestations; in the midst of which
the poor shaved victim asked leave to resign
and retire for ever into private life, Dr. Nozzld
rose and dedared that resignation would not
meet the purpose of his party, but the exposure
of imposition. The vote was then taken, and
by a narrow majority the poor sufferer waH
ordered to be scalped. , Senator Nozzle, accord-
ingly, advanced to him ~th a huge scalpel) and
cut his head from forehead to neck, dissected
aside the skin, when, 10! it was found that
every bump on his cranium was the result of
artificial deposito The excitement 'was now
intense. The Government was overwhelmed;
the opposition members were in ecstasies. Tho
hig~hoads in the assembly drooped in sonow;
the hig~nos(ls triumphantly sniffed the air. But
animation boiled over into phrensy when D!',
190 'l'm: TWE:-.iTY-NINTH CENTi;'RY.

Nozzle fonowed up hi!; great victory by bran-

diRhing a knife and insisting that the heads of
all the Government ministers should be sub-
jected to a similar operation. The demand.
threw the phrenologists into fits of horror.
Some fen on their knees) SmYl(1 fainted, so~e
roared through fright, and none hut Dr+
·Cephalic kept his presence of mind. Like
another Samson, tlw Doctor was greater in the
hour of his faJI tha.n in the days of his power,
He ascended the tribune) declared hi8willing~
ness not only to be scalped and flayed, but to be
heheaded) for the sake of the glorious cause to
which he had devoted his life. 'For this
cause,' said he) 'I have lived) and for it I anl
prepared. to die.' . His nohle speech saved his
pm"ty from further humiliation, rendered their
retreat from office honourable) and allowed the
Government to escape with a simple l'esigna~
tion.
" Senator N ozz10 wa.s now appointed President,
-and forthwith formed 9. Cabinet, rfhe change
outside, howevor, wa.s even greater than that
in Parliament, The big~head8 were dethroned
from a.ll public positions, while the big-noses
.emerged from cellars, garrets) and hovels, to
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:assume authority and gain names and fame.

Thfany dofied ra.gs to don robes~ chains} and
orders; many doffed badges and robes to don
tatters; many left palaces for huts J and many
left huts for palaces. Society was completely
revolutionized. 'rhe manners and customs of
the people were completely upset. Ugliness
.seized, all the honours and appanages belong-
ing to beauty. Big-heads were no longer in
fashion. La~ge noses) squint eyes, capa.ciolls
mouths, ill-arranged sets of teeth, were now
viewed as the badges of beauty. Unsightliness
passod current for comeliness. lVlany females
adorll-cd with mulberry prominences on their
faces emerged from their retjrements into
tho vnrtf'X of high life, to display those charms
which bad taste had formerly scouted as de~
formities. Dr. Nozzle himself) though he pos~
as
.sessed a face as rueful that of Don Qu.ixote,
. though h.e had a nose like Randolph, and
though his eyes were as much squinted us if
his snout had been n. magnet and his eyes load~
stones, was extolled as the modern Apollo.
rrhe nation's Cabinet, likewise, though it
formed an exhibition of human scarecrows, was
lauded as a letlY of the paragons of beauty.
102 THE TWENTY-NliiTH CJ:NTURY.

"l\Icanwhilo, as lJig nosos attained. sllch a

high quotation in the Dxclmngo offal'lhion~ it was
discovered that the nostrils of the p~pulation
bogan to s,YoH into the m.ost outrageous sizes,
that 8hops became filled with instruments
called nose dilators, and Hociety inundated.
with a new profession) whose fonowers were
caUed facial manipulators. rrhe nasal twang
itself became 1'10 fashionable that to talk other-
wise than through the nose was eonsidered. a
symptom of low breoding.
" These corruptions formed pasturage for the
courage of Dr. Cephalic. Each excess of the
nosians enabled. him to strengthen his party.
In a short thne he, thero£:Il'c, rallied his fol~
lowers and attacked the Governmont. Ho
declared the nation was rampant with decep~
tions. He avorred that among tho party in
power there was scarcely one in ten whoEe
nostrils were not artificially h;ype11rophied.
He said that the youths of the land were
having their noses bIo'wn up like bladd.ers, to
enable them to take prominent positions in
society, and that) if tbis state of things went
011, thc human face would soon have lost its
pristine comeliness. Ho then reminded the
 TERRA-VENUSIAN (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. 193

Government that, though by their confession of

political faith genius eould only he estimated
in individuals whose noses were shaped natu-
raUy, }lC knew many instanees whore arti-
ficially enlarged noses, had been accepted as
passports for high offices. ,Senator Nozzle in
answer proclaimed that subjects had a right
to practise nasal expansion in order to beautifY
and modernize their features] but denied that
artificial dilation was admitted bv the Govern-
of

ment as a proof of enlargement of understand-

ing. Finally) he suhmitted that themag"llificent
noses which adOl"ned the faces of the Cabinet
were Nature1s own inimitable ·workmanship.
Dr. Cephalic then rose and declared that he
had douhts regarding the genuineness of the
nose of the Home Secretary; seeing that looked
at in profile it took the abnormal and singular
form of aI} isosceles triangle of whicr.l the face
formed the hypotenuse .
.. A motion was thereupon carried, by whieh
the Hom.e Secretary's nose was ordered to he
examined. A wild scene was the conse-
quencc l d1ll"ing w'hioh the victim was seized
and hr:ought to. the bar of the House. What
was the astomshment of both sides of the
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HOU8C~ when, on the first iuspeetion, it was
di;:;covcred that theil' interior wans were silver!
The poor Minister at once blubbered out, 'I
win resign and confess :an provided I am not
puniHlwd_' He at the sume time took out of
hiH nostrils two m!;-;ul crinolines) when) Io! the
immense nose which previously darkened his
face collapi'>cu like a pierced bladder, The
laughter of tho opposi Hon was uncontrollable,
and tho discomfiture of the Government un~
bounded. Cephalic) to foHow up his victory,
hud the other Cabinet :Ministers ut once brought
up for imolpection, when) to the immeasurable
delight of the big-heads, onc-half of them
were discovered to have had adulterated nasal
organs_
" Thus in a few minutes the strongest Govern-
ment that had ever ruled the nation was
brought to scorn, and its tenets exploded
for ever, Most of its ministers, who had come
that day to Parliament proudly sniffing the air
with their huge probosces, were now moving
about disconsolately, with their faces as fiat as
the EgyptiuIl Sphynx-pillories of contempt
alike to their own and the opposite party,
"The big-heads now resumed office, and
 TERRA-VENUSIAN {ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. 195

maintained their place but a short time~ when

four of their great leaders died. Their mighty
sKulls, which, when their owners wer~ alive~
had. kept the phrenological party together~
WeI'e destined J in the hands of the anatomists,
to ruin it for ever. 1;he mst cranium which
was examined was found to contain a brain
much below the average, because the bones .
happened to be of immense thickness J while
the largeness of the other three was found to
depend upon hydrocephalic effusion.
" The causes of physiognomism and phreno~
logism shortlv J afterwards died· sturdy and
~ ft.f

healthy sciences swept them away. Like the

whole of the nocturnal legislation of Britain
in the nineteenth century, they had. been the
m~ans of saddling the country with mighty
expense, gross corruptions, and absurd anaehro~
nisms. Commonsense dawned after the dark-
ness, and. its work shone aU the more brightly
after the gloom which reigned during the
~ontinuance of theso empirica.l Governments."
In summing up the debato and summa-
ri.zing the observations, Bonitas showed tho
mellowing influence of time on man's mental
.sta.te and. estate. "ilumlln nature," said he~
196 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

"likc the glacier} though cold, torpid, and s~

was1 by the agency of a higher hand, all the
whilo moving down Time1s rugged escarpment
toward.s warmer ages, and ultimately~ by the
genial temperaimc of Christianity, the glacial
current was destined to thaw and· give birth to
the rivers of the millennium, On the hoary tops
of history's infancy} inclemencies of temper
raged, and the rarefied and frosty atmosphere of
ignorance showered desolation, while below
extended Time's summcl~ and autumn." He
then showed that history} like nature, pro--
claimed the designs of the Almighty. "We
t
view he remarked, "in human history some-
thing more than an aimless and undesigned,
a causeless and easual chain of causation. Man's
deeds only supplied the links of history. God
strung them together, and made them su~
iernent to Ilis inscrutable purpose, Behold5u
the dial of events the finger of heaven. Godj
who alike makes human affairs and the stars to
run in their destined orhits, now makt38 one
day ao the work of a thousand years, and anon
upsets the labol.l,rs of centuries in as many
h011l's,-now goes straight to His purpose, and
anon aehievcs His end hy a flank movement,
 TERRA~""ENUSIAN (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, 197

Thoy were tainted with tho virus of scepticism,

and salivatod with l!lophistries1 who could have
denied that the course of human annals was
unguided by a higher hand, As little could the
Israelites have wandered in safety from Goshen
to Jordan without God, with His cloud by day
and pillar of fire hy night, as could the world
of the nineteenth c~ntury, with its infidelity,
indifference, and intolera.nee, with its church
fractured into sects} and its continents muti~
lated into kingdoms have merged into the
j

world of the twenty~fifth century, with itg

universal ehurch and its unit.e(l poople."
Having travelled in thought and speech over
the histories of the second and third planets,
our great inter~planetar c01IDcil was closed
by musico~religious services whose Venusian
j

e:randeur
u
amI fervour shaU render them the
most lasting of the treasures of my mew-my_
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CHAP'!'EU VI.
VENUSIAN MISSIONARIES SENT TO THE WORLD.

HAVING :retired to rest, I ruminated sadly over

the proceedings, seeing, as I did, more clearly
than ever, tho comparative insignificance of the
advances made· by mau, and the mighty pr~
gress still necessary ere tho millennium could
have its consummation.
A few days later I received intelligence that
my native world had now eompletod arrange-
ments to have a levy of its inhabitants sent
hithcl'. No Penelope ever more longed for Ii
illysses than I for my brethren, At length,
when asleep one night, I was aroused and
summoned to hie immediately to a certain
quart or of the planet, for the expected terre&-
trial strangers were now on thoil' Venuswards
jOlU'llCY, and were expected to land ut this
point, The news ore this was circulated
throughout the whole planet, so that when I
 VR.'fUSlAN MISSIONARIES TO THE WORLD. 199

reached head ~ quarters I fi)und I had been

precoded by nearly the whole Secundine
population. The scene possessed the every in-
gred.ient of sublimity, Very similar to the
army by which I was met; tho numbers were
equally g'l'eat] and the music equally tran-
scendent. As the only Tertian present, I was
placed beside Veritas, that I might act as the
interpreter of my l)l'ethren. Eager to learn
the progress of the approaching travellers, I
now took a teleseope) and espied their
balloons thousands of miles overhead, each
evidently tenanted by one occupant. :My
heart leaped ""ith joy when 1 at length recog-
nized the features of my beloved brother,
Stephenson Watt, in the foremost. From that
moment till a few minutes later, when I had
him. in my arms, what a joy-storm swept
through my soul! "non I at :first met Watt
at Oonstantinople] how little I imagined that
in our after-life we should be drawn together
under so many and singular circumstances;
that we should be the first human beings to
embrace ea.ch other in moonland; that we
should meet again in its core as the first to
see it perforated; and that now we should faee
200 THE T"WENTy~~aNTH CENTURY.

one another as the first terraneans who had

in vaded a foreign planet.
In a few minutes more other two aerost6ts
aITived] hearing respectively Schroeter Short
and l\Iontaignc Rodkiir. As each arrived) they
r(~eeived the most tender we1eomes from the
Seeundilles, My brethren were naturally over~
whelmed with the Buper~earthly magnificence
which everywhere inundated their senses, The
surpassing beauty and symmetry of the in-
habitants, the luxuriant magnificence of this
Paradise, and the angelic sweetness amI power
of their music, prostrated their feelings.
I refrain from sketching the ovations which
followed, Such is the supreme grandeur of
Secundinc display, that the pen or pencil
would be bold which would attempt their
dCSCl'iption,
.t\fter these salutations, we four cosmopolitana
enjoyed It long and. affectionate meeting.
Thousands were the incidents and thoughts we
llaa. to barter, With an account of the great-
ness of Secundus I supplied my brethren. With
the history of Tertius during my residence in
this foreign planet they regaled me,
Next day our work commenced in earnest.
"'
 VENUSIAN MISSIONARIES TO 'flU; WORLD. 201

I taught my fenow~men the Secuudine lan-

guage, and by degrees acquainted them with
the great triumphs of the citizens of Hesperus
in the sciences and arts, For a while they
hindered my labours in the l1arvest-fieMs of
Venusian ·philosophy, seeing I had to act as
their tutor. But the toil I invested upon them
soon yielded most lucrative profits.. When I
had taught them the elements of the language,
I had supplied them with tools which em~
powered them to go out along with me as
fellow-reapers in the grea.t work, The impulse
thus caused was marvellous. Every sllccessive
day fOllnd our knowled.ge~stalks mightier, and
us labourers more keenly enjoying our work.
A few. weeks after this~ on awaking one
morning, Bonita::; told me two spirits from the
earth had hovered over my couch all night
long" A pfmg of sorrow transfi.:K.ed my 8onl~
for I had ·been dreaming of my parents, and it
at once struck me they must have died. My
fears were correct, for when BOllitas sketched
the spirits, I saw in them the likeness of my
father and mother, I noted the timfJ, and
when I afterwards returned to the world, I
found t.his incident had occurred but a few
202 TIlE TWENTYaNINTIT CENTURY.

hours after they had died, for in their deaths

they had not been ill vided. The drcumstanoo
t'lxeitod in me more joy than sorrow, for it
showed that parcntal lovc extended beyond
the grave,
But my day~ in the socond planet were '.!lum-
hered_ The Seeumline intel'-planetaI' cannon.
had now heen eomplElted. The trial-shooting
had proved its power and its aeeuracy. To
the nrst 1 to the third j and to the fourth planets!
blank bom b3 had been successively pitched.
It was now arran god that I should be allowed
to journey to my world-home, and that as it
was so fur astern of Sccundus in the high-
'way of progress, my tutors, Experientia .and
llonitas~ should accompany me, to act as mis-
ilionarics to mankind, With this view they
acquired the tClTanean language. To Secun-
dines this was but a simple task, on aceount of
their transeemlent mental powers, 'Vhatever
was poured into their memorY1 neither time
nor age could evaporate, They had only to
read a dictionary to understand a language)
to peruse a hook to know it l,y rote, and to
look at a landscape or picture to know ull its
dctail!:i: Everything their mind attained was
 VENUSIAN :MISSIONARIES TO THE WORLD. 203

retained. Not the slightest marking on the

tablets of their recoUection eould possibly be
effaced or defaced. After ono perusal of a
book it was laid aside fo:1' ever, heeause it
was indelibly transfusod into the remembrance.
Books and periodicals, the glory of our wo:rId,
wero heret thereforo, almost useless J because
(;Jaeh Secundine eould earry in his mind that
whieh man had to conserve in lihraries. This
amazing retentiveness made me mourn the
vexatious leakage of manls memory. \Vith
age th@ exosmose of'" forgetfulness steadily
increased until it exceeded tho endosmose of
acquisition,
For these reasons) a few hours made my
tutors acquainted with our language. Having
imbibed this knowledge, they asked me to
show them specimens (If the pm'est of our
ancient and modem classics. I h:nmediately
gratified their desires by supplying them with
the microscopie books I had in my possession.
What would have taken hutimn beings mo~ths
to read and years to master, they transplanted
to their memory in a few days. In less than
a week they had acquired 'a better knowledgo
of man's history, philology, and literature than
204 THE TWE~TymNINTH CENTURY.

that onjoyed hy man himself, Thus for the

:first time was the litorature of the world
brought before the tribunal of it foreign planet.
Bonitas favoured me with a valuation of ter-
runean belle,'?-lett'reN, which I noted down
with a view to publication, Viewed from
the Semmaine stand-pointt our world and its
. mental secrotions made an insignificant show,
l\Ianyof the observations of Bonitas were 00
sauced with pungont sarcasm, that in swallow-
ing them I eould not but wince, Human
history he averred to be a hotch-petch of
distortions, equivocations, prevaricatiollil) and
special pleadingj in which the only pure and
true items were the names and dates. The
strata of true history he declared to be it
narrow film of years~ reposing on a mighty
igneolli! fonnation of tradition and fable,
Historians of pre-millennia1 times he avowed
to be not arbiters of truth so much as 8YOO-
phants of courts and aclvocates of particular
dynasties, With the fantastic} versified fabri-
cations grandiloquently christened poetry, he
was equally disgusted and amused, To him
it appeared most ludicrous that sentences
should be moulded into numbers 1 measured·
 VENUSIAN MlSSlONAlUES TO THE WORLD. 205

:into feet, and· clipped into lines, to make

rhythm; and still more ludicrous that in certain
foppishs pedes of phl'ase'3haping the lines should
be in braces or leashes, the concluding" syllables
of which had corresponding sounds. !! To
me," said he, ,€ it seems· inscrutable that men
who pricled themselves on t~ei.r intellect, should
have made themselves mere metre-milliners and
word-tllilors, sat down and cut sentences into
shape, sewed them up into couplets, distiches,
or stanzas, embroidered them with a host of
obsequious mvoeations to gods that never lived,
muses that never sang} horses that never gal-
loped, harps that were never played, and hills
they never saw! I am also sick of the manner
in which poets anointed superior~ called patrons
with rancid compliments, amloftheir everlasting
hysterical interjections of 'Othis!' and' 0 that! ~
and' 0 thou!' t(1 supel'im's ·W11O were mayhap
inferiors. Such phrase. sculptures belonged not
to the fine, but the superfine arts. 'True
poetry," added he, if disdained metrical and·
rhythmical fetters.. The heart, the fountain of
poesy, never yet, in pouring forth its springs,
measUl'ea. its feelings in artificial metre and
fect." 3fuch as I loved, and had been taught
206 THE TI\lENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

to love, the ditties of my f11thcr~wor1d, I felt

the justice of tbis criticism. Indeed, after
reading the dassies of the planet, I saw man~
kind were only cripples upon a lowly path of
literatureJ and unable to seale poetris heights.
Tho poets of Venus soar with the wings of
eagles; those of tbo carth nutter and flounder
with the wings of tho hen.
Bonitas then 'expressed his disgust at the
a.mount of scum which had boiled fi.'om the
human brain under the title of philosophy.
'~Sa,va;ntsJ" said hey if in £)1'mer times found no
delight in the macadamized paths of wisdom,
hut performed vagaries on the tight~ropes of
airy speculation. In the study of science they
ignored its grand lessons-the majesty of the
"Croatarf tho unity of His universe, and the
harmony of His laws. They w~sted their
energies in drawing theoretic plans when they
should have been building practical structures."
lIe summarily summarized the nineteenth
century as overflowing with unpoetic poetry)
with novels without l10veItyy with pseud()
philosophy brewed in the vats of atheism, with,
unjust justice, and with mal-governing govern~
monts. He satirized its satirists for scoffing at
 VENUSIAN MISSIONARIES TO THE WORLD, 207

abuses they did not try to remedy. In discem~

iug truth they were short~sighted, in preaehing
it they ,were short-winded. Man's numerous
languages bespoke his rancorous animosities;
the jungle of jargons of which the best tongues
were composed betrayed his barbarities,
To his remarks on individual writers I
listened with speeial interest. ,( Homer," said
he~ "being lit heathen, must ho pardoned for
making the clashing of arms, the yell of miserYJ
and the din of strife dun tho ears of his readers;
but there is no excuse for his barbarous taste
in ma.king a.ll the gods of lwaven and the
bravest men on earth fight for ten years on
account of the' elopement of a petty strumpet."
The Mneid he declared a wonderful poem, con-
sidering it was written by a human being;
but its ethies Wel'e false y and it taught nothing.
It was a mere adroit specimen of sloight of pen.
Even 'Paradise Lost' eut a poor figure in my
-estimation after heing transfixed by the barbs
·of his criticism. "As long," said he, ., as
. Miltoll confines himself to hell he is at home;
. when he soars to heaven he hecomes arrogant,
boorish, and coarse, He puts eloquence in the
mouth of the devil, but nothing but insipidities
 208 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

and unpleasant pleasantries into the mouth of

the Almighty. 'fhe fiends surpass the angels
at speech-making. The grovelling devil is '
exalted to the dignity of a hero, and the
. Almighty degraded to the position of a poetic
Hubordinntc. The picture of sin might disgust
disgust itself. The battle amongst angels is.
rank rant. Heayen, where peace only dwells,
itIilton inundates ll{lth strife, VVbe1'8 light is
everlasting he introduces night. Out of
heaven's golden Hoil he makes devils quarry
earthly stench-fraught ingredients. In the ~
course of a night he makes Satan invent gun~
powder} found cannon, and tra.nsform his soldiers
fl'om intimtl'y into artillery. N ext morning the
;5piritual angols fly before material balls and
blTape~sllOtJ which affords the devil the oppor~
tunity of ventilating his wit and firing off a
salvo of puns, pUllS so low that they would not
have been tolerated even on the stage of a
third-rate theatre, But thE! most heinous of all
:M:ilton's faults lies in his recognition of mytho-
logical falsities as roalities, and his introduction
of the corrupt deities of corrupt pagans in a
poem whose professed pUl'{Jose was to justify the
ways of God to man."
 VEI\T;SIAN MISSWNAmeS TO THE WORE,])" 209

Of the arch poet of ante~millennial times, he

said: - "In the fifteenth century, eccentric
mother nature took the brains of a philosoplwl'1
three poets~ two wits, an orator, a teachel'~ and a
preacher, commixed them, and placed thmn into
one skull to make a Shakespeare" A prodigy
was the result. His pen was a mighty tropo~
making and tl'1lth~pai:utillg engine - a wand
before which the most amazing creations burst
into life. His writings were the superflux of
ex.uberant genius. Yct, after all, they were
monstrosities, his plots unnatural, and the words
and tropes of his characters superhuman."
Johnson, fumed for his didion, eontradiction,
and dictionary, he censured for dissipating his
strength in paltry fireside and alehouse word
encounters. VoHarra's productions he confessed
to be excellent ointment wherewith to relieve
the mere itch of literary prurience) but poisonolls
to swallow internally as authoritative WritiIlgS.
"Modern authorst said he, (, are but pro-
bationers in litel'atu.l'o. All mortal writings arc
clothed in an anhydrous style, more or less stUn
fened with the starch of pedantry, and more dis-
tinguished for affeetation than effect. I approve
of your system of giving Hight and force to the
VOL. III. p
210 THE T\VE:STy·:xnrrH CE:XTURY.

barb" of truth by hasping them on the feathered

arl'mys of' fietion, but there is no excuse or ex-
tenuation, r:;avc cU<ltom, for the world's stupid
reverence for thosc mythological characters
,vhich Christianity ought to have interred in
oblivion. It was un insult to truth for modem
writers to exhume the fables of heathens, and
an injury to the Gospel for writers to apostro-
phize ethuic gods." I writhed under this rebuke,
for I know how much it was deserved, and be-
causo I felt how much my own writings were
encrusted ,vith idolatmusallusions, and howthere '
lurked in my most solemn traetates the names
of every scoundrel in the heathen theogony.
Hesperus had completed an orbit dIDing my
stay among its people" As tears of joy hal-
lowed my entrance into Secllndus, tears of
SOITOW solemnized my departure. They were
bitter, for my sojourn in its blessed realms had
done more for my soul's health than all my
life's experience in my own earth. I had mightily
enlarged my mental capitaL I had bottled int.o
the bins of my memory myriads of truths
unknown to mankind. I had aequircd more
wisdom than it was possible for the earth to
bestow. I returned to tho hllman family a year
 "VENUSIAN MISSIONARIES TO TRB WORLD. 211

older, but fifty yoars wlsero I left the earth}

earth proud, I C8J1le back to it humbled and
abused. . Were I to live as long as Methuselah,
the scenes of this past year would be evergreens
in the gardens of my memory"
With me I took notes of all the rcsearehes
into Secnndine seienee, gleaned by my brethren
and :myselt~ my translation of the SecWl-
dine Bible, selections from the classics, and
mod.els of many engineering works. But to
retu.rn to the world under the surveil1n.nce of
my beloved tutors certainly formed the mo~t
pleasant feature of my journey_ At the ap-
pointed hour of departw'e we were escorted to the
inter~stenar cannono In the presence of a mighty
assemblage we entered the bomb. 'While their
prayers made their ascent to heaven, we made
our descent to the earth. In the journey I felt
no anxiety I for abler heads than mine had the
command of the astronomical ship. Could I
forget the infallible wisdom. of my masters?
Could I forget they possessed more wisdom than
the sum total inherited by all mankind; and
that their minds were freighted with more
knowledge than was hushanded in all the
libraries of the world? In due timo my
brethren hunt the shelL Our first sensation
was, that we had been plunged into a region
of gloom. AccUI:!tomed to the brilliant lumi-
nary of Secundus, we thought that of the
third planet appeared sickly and moonlike, In
a few minutes, however1 our eyE',s became
reconciled to the change. }leantime, impeUed
by our engines, together with the earth's gravi-
tation,"We were making most amazing progress.
)"'lmt was a star quickly developed into a.
moon, and then into a world.
At length I saw over Yokohama the air wag
Cl'owdedwith a fleet of aerostats, und~3:r the
admiralshlp of Glaisher Flammarion~ and
adorned with nehulous embellishments, which
to us would have been grand had we not
newly left scenes of greater grandeur. In So
few minutes we were emhosomed in the arms
of mankind. 'The whole human race, save Ilk
few millions, we found awaiting our mTiva1.
Every family had deemed it a privilege to
send some of its memhers to welcome their
brethren from another star.
The Secundines being ha.bituated to sights
of superhuman gTandeur, to sounds of heavenly
harmony; and to Hfe in a planEjt affluent with
 VENUSIAN MISSIONARIES TO THE WORLD. 2UJ

'Super~earthly joyS: their entrance into our

atmosphere impressed them 1/lrith the pauperism
of the furniture of nature in our world.. There
was it smaller and dimmer luminary, a duskier
daylight, a foul ether above, lind a dingy
vegetation below. To the lungs the breathing
was oppressive, to the shoulders the heavy air
was a burden. The transportation of it London
aristocrat in ruedireval ages to the hut of' an
Esquimaux would have been a feeble change
to the transition of my Mentors from the second
to the third planet. I cou1tl not, thereforo, hut
admire the amazing good~win with which they
endurod the inconveniences of our world. At
various points of the voyage I should have
expected they would plead discomfort. But
no; on being phmged into our air) they merely
regretted its asperities) and on first beholding
our vegetation, they merely deplored its colours
were so sombre and its forms so stm. What,
however; struck me most was to notice how
their perceptions were taken by storm when
they beheld the apparent anomaly of masonic
erections. It seemed to them inexplicable how
the God-made man should live in mineral
boxes. But sllch feelings:were worn off by the
214 THE TWENTY" NINTH CENTURY.

friction of a few days' observations. They

saw that man required shelter on account of
the rigours of tho elements on the one handr
and the frailties of his frame on the other;
that overy breath of Natu.rels air-lungsJ every
rise or fall of tho temperature, and every
modification of tho ether's humidity, branded
their influence upon man's body and mind;
and that the human frame was a complex
meteorological instrument. The blood~vesselg
were thermometers, tho nerves barometers?
and the very fibres of tho brain manometers,
'rhey were still more reconciled -.to our domi-
ciliary habits whon they observed that archi-
tecturo had beon educated into such a noble
::esthetic scienceo
As soon as I had arrived in the world, I
forsook the celebrations in honour of the
arrival of my tutors: and rushed home. As I
expected, two familiar faecs were absent. As
told by the Secllmiine, the souls of my father
and mother had flitted from their flesh at tho
time of my strange dream.
Mean while, the Venn sian apostles were shown
the sights of the planet, themselves the greatest
sight of alL In some scenes they had a special
 VENUSIAN MISSIONAltIES TO THE WORLD~ 215

interest, r:ehe wOl,ld's watel'~cistern8, as they

called the oceans, they surveyed with mingled f

emotions, While recognizing their sublime

appearance, they prophesied that the Utilita-
rianism of the future would transform their
basins into fertile fields, by making the seas
subterranean, "\Vith much pleasure they noted
the heaving of the oeean's tidal bosom through
the fickle flirtations of Dame Diana. 'With
satisfaction they :ransaeked the marine world,
and viewed the sub~oceanic farms and piscatory
cities, and especially the cetacean stables, with
their studs of whales, With curiosity they
glanced at the capricious toilets assumed by
our sky. They smiled to behold morn dl'essed
in hodden-grey, noon in a cerulean mantle, and
evening bedizened with robes of gold, Heaven's
. triumphal areh and Nature's spectrum, the rain-
bow and Nature's kalciaoscope~ the aurora,
were beheld with delight" They were also
gratified with the artificial peaks of the wor1d,
where breezes,and clouds were born and cradled,
With gladness they observed that man had
made such heights atmospherie lungs whereof
j

the centripetal ,,>inds were the inspirations, and

the centrifugal the expirations_ From these
218 THE TWENTY~NINTII CENTURY.

I-lame heights they also looked wistfully at their

own world, which appeared like a diamond
upon a gold-mantled sky.
In the first day of their stay on earth, the
strangers actually exhausted their inspection of
its notabilia. A cursory glance at each spec-
tacle sulTIced them, for ill thell' eyes the world's
wonders were not wonders, and its curiosities
and prodigies by no means surprising, 'rhe
following day they were Gamalieli'!, who rallied
the whole human mce at theu' feet. Their
superior intellect and superhuman erudition
were theamazemellt and admiration of mankind.
For a while overy avocation in Terra and Luna
was more or less forsaken, that all might study
Sccundinc lore, and bo taught so many things
of ·which man was ignorant. Our visitors
instructed their human disciples with a speed
and success which was marvellous. Their
crystallized. and crystalline style was a vast
difference from the anhydrous and opaque
rhetoric of mankind. Eaeh, either in the
world or moonj lectured twenty hours daily at
twenty different places, to twenty different
audieneos wi.~ck after week. Amazement of
amazements! they underwent this labour
 VENUSIAN MISSIONARIES TO THE WORLD. 217

without fatif>'11C, and this monotony without

ennu£; and, despite their unrelaxecl energies;
they spoke with ultra-Demosthenic eloquence;
ultra~Shakcspearian beauty, and ultra-Miltonic
~ublimity, The Secundines thus shed over the
earth the rays of a heavenly wisdom, Before
the beams of their knowledge all darkness fled.
They tore off the· visor from all enigmas; .-
mysteries they dissolved into simplicities;
doubts they fused into intelligihilities; puzzles
they liquefied into their elements. They
grubbed up an Natm'e's secrets) and what was
latent they rendered patent. They blew away
the fogs of fallacy whiell invested philosophy)
and swept away the mists which enveloped
divinity" Nay, by virtue of their power of
ll!lving communion with the unseen world,
they entel'ml into holy relationship with the
cloud of witnesses which environ the :human
race, 'l'hrough them, as a medium) Abraham
was enabled to greet the family of the fuithful,
"of which he was the father; JYloses to hail the
wholo human constituency as an Israel, and
the whole world as a Oanaan; David to enrich
man with new psalms; ,Jeremiah to salute
humanity, though nO longer ·with tears or
218 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

lamentations; and Paul to fan om piety by the

warmth of his teachings.
Humbling was the spectacle of the wide
world when, 8,000 years old sitting as a pupil
j

at the feot of two inhabitants from a forei b'1l

planet. Tho most learned were mere neophy-tes
and novices compared to these two heavenly
preeeptors. ll.hn now found that up tin the
,IJ!'csent he had been i(1'norant of his ibQ'IJ,oranee.
f.)

Human minds were seen to be nebu1re com-

pared to the intellectual luminaries of other
stars. By the ballast of humility, excited hy
the circumstance, man's piety was fanned, and
his race aftor wisdom quickened.
My pen now arrives at the death of Shake-
speare Socrates. He was not only present at
the arrival of the Secundines) but one with
whom they spent several homs. Only one
week further, however, passed over his head
when he peacefully bade farewell to time and
an hail to eternity. The death·bed. scene~
being the first beheld by Experientia and
Bonitas, deeply affected them. But their
sorrow only lasted wbile his !He remained, for
when the dissolution took place, they, in virtue
of their immortality, heheld his soul and saw
 VENUSIAN MISSIONARIES TO THE WORLD. 219,

his happiness, while we only surveyed the

ill'e1ess e.1ay, ''€ I'I'e 18
. dea; d '1 sal'd I J at t h'18,
moment, a:r!'e is bornt rejoined Bonitaso
, " T'Ime1S goa1 18
. etenllty . ,13 startmg~pomt, The
0 •

death-day of the body is the natal-day of the

soul." Afore bitter would have been their
feelings had they witnessed the cruelty of
death in pre-millennial ages, when its fi'equencYl
, its suddenness, its untimeliness, and its fearful
causes, rent to pieces every fibre' in man's
heart. Happily, diseases, accidents, catastrophes,
wine, and war, no longer afford the twin sisters
the means of cutting the thread of life at
random.' Now all die that beautiful death
like to the sheaf of corn fully ripe. Death
such as this is the spectacle of a wearied
pilgrim, who, after having trod the dusty paths
of life, opens the gates of immortality. Death
to the Christian is but Heaven's Fe-agent which
precipitates the dust in which the soul is:
immured. It liberates the spirit from the
corporeal fetters by which it is manacled, and
enables it to 11y heavenward. But Socrates"
decease wa.s compensated by his rich bequest
to posterity in his ensample, Out of' his time
plot, extending over two centuries, he had
 220 ' THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTURY.

I'caped mnazing crops of good works. Not a

day of his life's garden had been left uncul-
tivated. Nearly one hundred "degrees of his
life' 8 circle had been consecrated to the public
henefit. It is impossible to valuate how much
he raised the spirit of the age by the sucti.on
of his exemplary example.
Great was the contrast between the silly
pageantry of sham grief accorded to rulers in
past times, and the obsequies of Shakespeare
Socrates, In place of silly sepulchral pranks
upon lifeless clay: as in former times}-such as
dressing it gaudily, encasing it in rich boxes}
pla.cing these again in a richer sarcophagus,
wbich sarcophagus is placed in a magnificent
_ mortuary, whieh mortuary is a mere appendage
toa eostly monument,-his remains were simply
ine~nerated, and tho fow ounces of his ashes
taken to the worlel's Thfacpelah in the Holy
Land} and. there inumed. His ex.equies were
alike unconscious of thronging multitudes and
vain pomp. A few mourners comprised the
funeral procession of him who once ruled
thousands of millions of people} and a small
urn formed the grave of him who erewhile
presided over three worlds. \
 VENUSIAN M1SSIONARIES TO THE WORLD. 22 r

The sun had now completed three zodiacs

since the eoromencement of the great inter~
planetar Cantlon. Slow was the progress until
the adoption of the Secundine improvements.
rrhese were so numerous and important, that
they expedited the work to an extent which
transcended expectation. The labour of thirty
. moons, according to our former tactics, was
mrrtailed into the area of as many weeks.
The omega of the alphabet of our enterprise
being reachod, the experiments were forthwith·
commenced. to test its power, which satisfac~
torily proved its capahility of despatching
passengers as far as Neptune.
Shortly thereafter the world's entire news--
spreading machinery was thrown into unparal-
leled activity, in consequence of Mars having
beckoned to us that their first envoys to this
world had already started, and that Tangan-
yika was the site at which the travellers
would arrive, The Senate had, with admirable
foresight, previously arranged that aU the
human family, as far as possibility would
lieenee, should be present to celebmte. the,
advent of the embassy. rrhe Sllmmons
was execut~d with an alacrity which might
222 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

have done credit to a better world. The

whole transit system of the earth was con-
vulsed. 'rho pneumatic tubes conveyed
senators, governors, and the world's teachers;
the subterranean and perterranean railways
despatched the female sex; balloons and lirti-
ficial "tlngs transported the rising generation
along with their monitors; while the cannon,
with their human tenanted bombs, volleyed
towards the rallying point the remainder· of
the world's inhabitants. :fitleamyhile, the other
preparations were being consummated with
astonishing speed. In the middle of the mam·
moth meeting was erectecl a great platform-
s. platform so vast, that it comprised a perfect
hill of scaffolding. Here were arranged in
due order, by the best strategists of the world,
the political and scientific senates. In this
centre 1s centre was a platform let, whereon
. Experientia and BonitasJ as representatives of
Ven-us, Stephenson 'Vatt as the President
.of the moon, and I as that of the Earth,
took our seats. !leanwhile, grand nebulous
tleenery had boon introdueoo, and· an or·
ehestraJ trained upon Venusian principles,
performed the supcrmearlhly grand sympho-
 VENUSIAN MISSIONARIES TO THE WORLD. 223

nies, which are 00 characterIstic of OUI' sister

planet.
In due time the voyagers, who comprised
four J!.farslans and Cassini Bianchini, arrived,
and were received with unspeakable acdama~
tion. What a glorious meeting ! Never since
Biblical times had there been one so sublime!
For the first time the citizens of the fourth
planet had invaded a foreign world,-'for the
first time thev saw and embraced 'their Venu-
""
sian oretmen,-tor the :first time thoy beheld
the commonwealth of mankind! Eloquence
itself would be unequal to a description of the
cordiality of our proceedings; poetry could
not paint the admiration with wJlich the
world viewed the l\Iarsians. Like the Venu-
sians, their tabernacles were patterns of inef-
fable beauty, their souls shrines of unsullied
I)iety, and their minus marvellous tor their
grasp and ductility.
Profoundly affectionate was the welcome
they received to our poor world, for we viewed
in. them not only our. visitors, but our pre-
ceptors, not orlly our guests, hut our guides.
Tears of gratitude flow from my eyes when I
speak of the benignant effiuencc they shed
224 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

over our ignormwe-strieken planet, and h.ow 1

like the Venusians, they were intellectual
Promothei, who brought the fire of divine
knowh·ugo to mankind. 1vIarslan science they
unfolded to us with an eloquence and lucidity
which made the greatest of this world small,
and our teachers but mere dunces. Like their
Venusian brethren, they slept not, and reguired
neither refreshment nor repose. Their assi-
duity did not so much as stoop to recreation;
their mental machinorv was an instance of
"
perpetual motion, Day and night they taught
either in the moon or the world, speaking to
us many as twenty au,dienccs daily, each of
which, by reason of the ramifieations of the
acoustical tubes, comprised one hundred mil-
lions of souls.
Only a few days) however, had we the
benefit of so many distinguished planetar
friends. Our Qua-dine hrethren left for the
Hoeond planot) amI Experientia and Bonitas
for the fourth. Thus, through tJlO medium of
the wor1d1g cannon; tho second, third, a]Jd
fourth worlds had. fi'aternized by this inter-
change of brethren.
In a few days further the world's staff of
 VENUSIAN MISSIONARIES TO THE WORLD. 225

apostles consisted of two hundred Secundines

and ono hundre4 Quarti.ncs. Under their care
man became daily more erudite and more
wise. The aherrations of prcju(licor and all
the remaining dregs precipitated from pre~
millennial times, were swept away before the
CIDTents of knowledge. For some months the,
earth, the moon and the moon's moon were but
great schools, men but a great tribe of school-
boys, and the Thfal"sians and V cnusians their
professors. :firfan saw that even up to a few
days ago he had been but playing in tho
nursery of history, and not till the present
had heen able to establish an academy of
learning, and place himself under the training
of competent masters.
Meantime the inter~8teUar communion was
prolific in heavenly fruits to all the worlds it
concerned. It endowed Vanus with Marsian
inventions and the specialities of Marsian phi-
losophy, and l\-fars with Venusian inventioll8
and Venusian philosophy. It opened to man
millions of unsealed. pages in the volume of
nature. In a few weeks man inherited such a
legacy of new acquirements in knowledge, as,
unaided, he could not have amassed In thou~
VOL. HI. Q
226 THE TWEN'I'Y~NINTH CENTURY.

sands of years. Thian, by the gracious aid

of his brothers in other pla.nets, quickly gm~
. duated to unexa.mpled degrees in intellect.
POlitiC8~ science, and metaphysics aU under-
went a revolution. Through tho benign influ-
ence of ow' heavenly visitors, m}"l'iads of the
effete measures of· the past -were swept from
the statute-book~ and in their places myriads.
of improved measures were introduced into
the parliamentary retorts, and quickly distilled
into acts. To the Sommilines and Quartines
themselves, the inter~stellar intercourse had been
blessed, for each race had had its own peculiar
triumphs in research, which they were enabled
to share in common. Such is the beauty of
knowledge, that they who trade in its marl
gain its bullion hy the mere trouhle of taking
possession. Here, then, is the pure and true
ideal of a eommunity of goods. What is to
one, may be to all; the more there is to take,
the more there is to give; and the, more 8hare~
holders, the more capital,
],fany w~re the schemes which grew out oftbe
inter-sidereal communion, chief among which
was the proposal that when all the planets had
 VENUSIAN MISSIONARIES TO THE WORLD. 227

mtemized, a common language should be lnst!",

tutod for the whole solar gystom~a language
based on the comhined excellendes of those of
the individual planets. Unspeakable was the
privilege which we meantime enjoyed in a
mental free trade in the linguistic territories of ,
Mars and Vonus. Each had its speeiaI merits.
The Secundinos heing a more practical people,
and hetter versed -in physieal laws) enjoyed a
vernacular amazing for its fecundity in techni-
cal terms. rrhe Quartans, more metaph)7sical"
possessed a vocabulary richer in the depart-
ment of psychics. As the dictionaries of both
were free from amhiguities and equivokes andj

their phrases more tel'se and concise than those

, current in the world, inter-planetar philology
had soon a practical importance to man, ~ot
only in whetting the mental edge of students,
but in the adoption of Secundan and Quartan
as the languages of science and philosophy.
Even our telegx'aphists threw aside the belated
.and inflated lexicon of man, and bade the
world's wires) with their electric tongues, speak
the beautiful vernacular of the seers of the
stars, Already we behold the approach of
the doom of the cosmopolitan speech. rrhe
last of the :five thousand tongues spoken by
mankind, we shall soon scc it swept a.wa.y
in favour of the universal language of the solar
system.
 JUll:SIAN MlSSION.ARIES IN THE WORLD. 229

CHAPTER VII.

HARSllN MISSION.A.RUW IN THE WORLD, AND

INTER 1inl:LI.AR '[,l:LEflltAPHY.
D

WORDS and time would both fail me to tell the

amount of toil which was focussed into each day
through the genial influence exhaled. by the
Marsian and Venusian missionaries. Progress
reigned in every human breast and over every
human cause. Each member of mankind was
clay in the hands of those skilful potters. Their
teachings were equally impressive and ex-
preSRive, Tbeir acu.te and a,fltU.te observations
were oracular, their judgments infallible. In
ethics they trod a nol)le and lofty path. What
were problems) chimeros~ and impossibilities in
ma.n~8 eyes, they showed to he simple acts to
God. In the movements of the heavenly
bodies, HE magically caused perpetual motion.
Without the aid of paddles, wings, or extraneous
machineryJ HE made Slms and their attendant
230 THE 'I'WEN'IY-NINTH CENTURY.

planets whirl through space. HE strung them

together without any tangible connexion. HE
suspended them on nothing, and rendered them
immutable in then- stability, though founded
upon vacuity. Even prayer's phenomena they
explained . by experimentally showing its
wondrous and unfailing reflex action.
In the scientific world -their labours were
likewise invaluable. By their means the
scheme for the extraction of nitrogen from our
atmosphere was successfully and speedily con"
summated. Thereby a most disagreeable inCll~
bus was removed from man's shoulders and
lungs-thereby another instalment· of UII.~
speakable comforts was bequeathed to mankind.
The lees of the former diseases with which the
world was invested were washed out "of the
cup of human miseries. :M:an's strength was
increased. His mind, fonuerly mert, was
rendered alert. The former dire leakage of
vital energy was so greatly prevented, that our
foreign visitors told us each member' of
humanity might now hope to live as long a,q
Methuselah.
Coincident with this, steps were taken to
decrease the water upon the globe by chemic.al
 l!.rABSIAN MISSIONARIES IN THE WOBLD~231

decomposition, and by its re*cmnposition intc

-other bodies,
In a few weeks eight hundred square miles of
the waters of the seas had been converted into
-concrete substances. The hydrogen and oxygen
were used to join to bases, and to form the
water of crystallization in salts. The hydrogen
was likewise added to the nitrogen collected
from the air to form ammo:n.l& Thus gaseous
nitrogen and liquid water were both metamor-
phosed into solids,
In addition to this; huge strata of soil were
'Super-imposed upon the earth's stratum of
water benempt the ocean, thQsrendering hitherto
'Superterrane seas 8ubterrene. In this work care
.. wal!! wisely taken to abridge the ocean's limits
only in thoso districts such as those south of
the equato!' where lay great wiJdernesscs of
water, Our ideal of geographic perfection was
to make the ocean pierce its way into the heart
{)f every continent, and the land to pierce its
way into the core of every ocean.
In a few months the face of nature was com-
pletely revolutionized, Its beauty was flO en-
hanced as to remind man of the glory of its
antediluvian ages, Its asperities were ch.anged
232 THE TWENTY~NINTH CENTU.RY~

into amenities. The fbrmer rampant TIt:bellious

agencies of nature were tamed into man's
obedient servants, "'''hat a change this
millennium has seen! Man in ancient times
Iived in a world replete with billions of forees.
electrical, meteol'ological, and caloric, scarcely
one of which he appropriated. The winds ran
riot} and strewed the land with desolation and
the ocean with wrecks~ and turned the sea's,
bottom into a Golgotha loaded with riches;
ruins) and skeletons. Rivers then capriciously
burst their bounds, the elements blastnd tho·
fairest harvests. The sun oft shone in vain
bee-ause man could not remove the curtain of
clouds which shrouded nature. The heat in
the earlEs centre was unutilized because mm
possessed not thn courage to tap the eartb?s.
skin. In short, man was the slave of what he
is now the master. Nevertheless, man in hia-
stupendous stupidity was 'then so limed with
lethargy, that he sought not to arrest Nature's.
tyrannies and attest his supremacy. Even his
very labours were so ill concocted as to rese~ble"
those of the work of a tread~mm! the most
frantic efforts never enabling him to advance
one inch.
 MARSlAN ltUSSIONARIES TO THE WORLD. 233

The next landmark along the highway of

time saw our inter-planetar cannon establishing
postal communication with the more distant
planets. Scientific specimens, models, illus-
trations, maps, diagrams, and plans I naturally
:fimned tho staple of our missives, seeing that
none of the stars, save our nearest neighbours,
were yet acquainted with our language. But
this system was incomplete. The world there-
fore rejoiced when it learned that the Venu-
siam; had consummated arrangements whereby
thoy would be enabled primarily to unite the
first, ,second, third) and fourth worlds, and,
eventually 1 an the globes of the solar system,
by telegraphic wires specially adapted for
distances so great and for planets in a con-
j

dition of sempiternal gyration. Had the in-

vention emanated from mankind, there would
have ~een serious demurrage in our expec-
tations, seeing man was never permitted to
achieve the harvest of his purpose without pro-
viously undergoing a winter of cold and bleak
disappointments, and a 8pring~time of labours
in which the soul was ploughed with .cares
.and harrowed with doubts. This scheme, how-
ever, coming from SC(lUndines, whose "Illf-ill and
 wishes were well-nigh synonymous~ we knew
that the birthday of the promised scheme
would see it, Adamnlike, arrived at its man-
hood. Indeed, almost erc we were in receipt of
this intelligence the mst inter~stenar cables were
laid, and the first four worlds had been wedded
and welded in telegraphic bonds. In another
week the l\rlarsians had extended the wire system
t.o the :fifth planet, and the fifth planet to the
sixth.
The ingenuity focussed into the work was
superhuman. The productioti was an excretion
of supernatural genius. It was not one happy
invention, but comprised a myriad of original
. contrivances. While the wires used were almost
imponderable, they were of amazing tenacity;
and while, like mathematical lines, they might
have been said to consIst of length without
breadth, they were, nevertheless, cords con-
sisting of thousands of strands, each of which
was a distinct and perfectly insulated tele-
graphic cable. .
rrhe management of these telegraphic. rems
was ehildishly simple, and their nicety and
aCCllIacy were such as caused fastidiousness
itself to express its satisfuction.
 DUBSIAN MISSIONARIES IN THE WORLD. 235

But while my pen writes these words, my

'Soul is convulsed with perturbation, for only a
few hours ago I decided I would act as the
wol"ld's deputy to Jupiter. About to leave this
-earthly scene once more j I cannot but stagger
in the march of my narrative. My heart no
longer goes with my pen, for exeitement has
dissolved the coherenee between my vlUl and
my affections. Reader, pardon my agitation,
for what am I when even tho bravest in' the
world are cowards! Forgive me as I now with
tremulous precipitaney hring tho thread of my
life to the present moment. Let me narrate
how some weeks ago I left for .Mars, and had just
. -circum-journeyed its realms, when I received
this stellogram : -
M Stephenson Watt, third planet,
.,,, To Diogcncs Milton, No. 20g8, fourth planet.
"The Secundines have framed inventions
whereby we m:e in aJ»osition to establish
passenger communication to Jupiter. The
Sonate desires you to return/'
Little as I had seen of QUIntus, I at once laid
my case before its President~ who D:r.rthwith had
me re-fired by special bomb to the world.
236 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTUEY.~~

\i\"hen I had returned to my native world~

I found that waves of rapturous delight were
sweeping from the: centre to the outskirts of the
solar system. It seemed that Mercury1 which
had hitherto only corresponded with its brother
stars by means of signals, had. now completed
arrangements whereby it would. be enabled to
send deputations of its inhabitants to every
planet, and that already some Primines had
boarded Socundus~ and that the unspeakable
glories of the lfercurian world were now
divulged. Till now we had waited anxiously
for the advent of tho Morcurians. That Mei'~
cury, the sun's nearest, dearesty and darling-
child, was possibly the most interesting member-
of the solar family, had long been believed.
rrhe sun had assigned it a richer dower of
light, invested it "with a better birthright of
warmth, and larger largess of chromatic beauty
than any of his other benefieiaric8. It possessed
the seat of honour in the solar assemblage. It
was placed at tho right-hand side of the Solar
system's King. It was the paragon of the Bolar
federation. Ita geography was a magnificent
fresco of the splendours of scenery and vege~
tation.
 MARSIAN MISSIONARIES IN THE WORLD. 231
. It was the garden and the Paradise of the
system. Its situation rendered its inhabitants
spectators of unceasing and unspeakable astro*
Ilomical phenomena. As a city reposing on the
shores of a well~navigated frith, surveys the
incessant passing and re-passing of stately ships,
the gambols of the frolicsome waves, and many
of the wonders of the oceanic deep, Mercury
looks out upon an astronomical estuary crowded
with comatio craft, and witnesses the greater
wonders of an astronomical deep. Hourly its
citizens behold armadas of meteors and Heots
of comets sailing to and from the greut port of
the sun. There are beheld close at hand, the
navies which cruise thl"ough infinity; there are
seen to round the sUll*cape, the flotillas of
the illimitable. "'hat a wondrous sight must
be this spectacle of the navigation of those
:incalcUlable sqrlUdl'OTIs of transports which sail
for an eternity through the ocean of shoreless
space! If the wonders of our roain can be styled
sublime, I have no word wherewith to eharae~
tenze the marvels of the inter",planetar spaces.
Truly they are a favoured people who arc
permitted to fare their vision on such a muni~
ficent eye banquet.
238 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

But the Primines were well worthy of such a

"
delectable world. Like the Seeundines and
Marsians, they were untarnished with 8in~ and
impregnated with divine knowledge. Nay,
they were infinitely superior to all the solar
races in heavenly wisdom, as they were like-
wise immea.8urably their seniors, 'When the
whole of the solar planets were uninhabited
wastes] :Mercury teemed with a busy population.
Primus was the Reuben of the planets. Its
people~ however, had only by the diligent appro-
priationoftime advanced to their present envious
positiollo Their heavenly accomplishments had
been the result of the sunshineofheavenlyfavo1ll.'
upon the vegetation of their own actions. Each
suceessive age aeeorilingly saw-the Primine world
graduating to a loftier sphere of heavenly know-
ledge,
. Wondrous were th,e attributes of the Primines!
Their bodies were almost ineorporeal) their
minds were miracles in p()int of grasp. The
Secundines and Marslans, who were patriarchs,
prophets) preceptors, and preaehers to us~ were
to the Thfe:rcllrians mere pupils., The funds of
knowledge, therefore, stored into the minds of .
the Secundines and Quartines by the PrimmeSt
 MANSIAM lI,uSSlONARIES IN THE WORLD. 239

man cannot calculate. As to man himself, he

did not receive the same dividend of profit
from Primus~ because his mental storage being
so 1imited~ he could not attain or retain the
wondrous funds of Mercurian knowledge.
. Another eireumstance was painful to man-
kind, It seemed that man's soul being
manae1ed in a corruptihle prison, .it was im-
possible for him. to travel to Mercury in the
flesh, as there only creatures of a mOl"e
spiritualized composition than man could live,
Thus, through our inherited sin, we were
placed in the invidious position of being the
only race that was not eligible to travel to and
live in ~fercury.
HappilYI if we could not go to them they
could come to us, Indeed, ere the earth has
spun many revolutions, we shall enjoy the un-
speakable privilege of having Primines for onr
apostles.
Altogether we live in marvel10us times.
Each hour unbm'dens some startling event.
Only a few years ago, who would have dreamed.
that, on ;January 23rd, 2884~ the various
planetar races would be fraternizing, and that
the stars of the sola:r system would then be no
longer isola.ted and insulated, but joined. in
transit and telegraphic wedlock? Looking at
the monstrous annals of the last few...years, I
am confounded. and. dumbfounded. When this
unexampled spring-tide of tumultuous progress
will end, who will dare say?-what it will end
in~ who will be bold enough to prophecy? Pro.-
greBs seems now 80 fleet~footed, that centuries
seem to slumber in seconds and reons in ages.
Yet we need marvel not, for the Director of
History can, as HE chooses, make one day
llerform the work of a.n age. As HE ean con-
centre a world into an atomp HE can focus It
millennium into a menw.
Having thus journeyed on through the course
of so many eventful years) I arrive at this the
latest beat in Time's hurried pulse. Man knows-
that while I finish this bookl I am preparing to
journey to .Jupiter, and thence (God. w:i.lJing) to
Herschel and Neptune. My astronomical mig..
sion, while it arouses within me earthly sadnes,'J,
kindles divine delight. Though necessity en-
tails my relinquishment of aU worldly tics, hope
opons such a brilliant host of glories for the
futuro of mankind that I long to assist in their
consummation.
 MA.:R8IAN MISSIONARIES TO THE WORLD. 241

Hitherto I have abstained from allusions to

my family. For this reason let me briefly
state my malTiage has been crowned with the
blessing of ten sons and fourteen daughters,
ltrIy beloved children, I rejoice to say, being
aware of their incapacity to scale the escal"p*
ments of publidtY1 which are reserved for the
few, are content to tread the paths of useful
humbless adopted by and adapted to the
millions.

YOLo In.
242 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

CONCLUSION.
AFTER glancing at so many leaves in my life1s
volume, I now arrive at its present page. This
morning I performed the sad duty of unsealing
all the business cords which bound me to my
native world. I unclasped with trisiful feelings
the buckles which interlinked my soul with
the main official duties of the world's politics.
With dolesomencss I disengaged myself £rom
those magnetic honds of love which would
fain have pinioned me to my home. Duty,
however, performed the Alexand.rine aeIlleve- ,
menta of severing with the ruthless sword of·
mOl"al obligation the Gordian knot which tied
me to all that was neal" and deal' in this earth.
A panic has all this day raged within my
breast. My affections have mutinied against
my vocation. }Iy wishes have rebelled against
the sovereignty of my will ,Yet, withal, the
day has not seen me dissipating my energies
in puffing off yolleys of sighs, or firing
salvoes of idle whinings and repin.ings. In
 CONCLUSION, 243
the morning I superintended all the arrange~
ments-wherehy my fellow-travellers, Bonitas
and four Marsian brethren, would be enabled
·to make the unexampled astronomical journey.
Manifold was the object of our mission to
the Jovlans. We were delegated to inform
them of the views of the second, third, and fourth
planets upon the proposed scheme for sweep-
ing ~~way all the present plalletar languages in
favour of a uniform and universal solar tongue.
'We were commL.'1sioned to harler Seeunwne
and Quarline knowledge for ~Tovian knowledge.
\Ve were ordained to inaugurate an era of
inter-stellar communion. .But our most im-
portant legation was to contrult with the
Jovians in reference to the colonization of Juno
and Vesta. Those two stars were now the
only uninhabited tenements of the inner circles
of the solar system. They were worlds to let.
They were spheres in all resp.ects. suitable fQr
being inhabited. In keeping with Nature~s
wondrous originality and versatility, whereby
each planet possesses its own features and pecum
liarities, these two earths contained beauties so
div~l'si:fied from those of the other worlds1 that
they were viewed by the Secundines and
 Marsians as likely to hold no mean position
in the astronomical history of the future.
Thither :races from all stars would sojourn;
there knowledge would raise its standard;
there new altars would be raised to the Most
High; there new mansions would be raised
for the sons of heaven.
It was part of our programme, indeed, to
travel to those two werlds in company with
a. deputation of J ovians in order that arrange~
Monts might be made for their immediate
colonization. That an inhabitant of a sinful
stupid world, such as I, shouJd have boonJ
through the choice of tho Secundine and
Marsian races, appointed to form a. unit of
such an important embassy, showed wondrous
condescension, For myself I felt ashamed to
be called upon to work. along with men so in~
futitely above myself :in every heavenly attri~
butc" As a Tcrranean my obtuse faculties can
be of no use to thc embassy. At the best I
can only be an inept emissary', a mere dumb
deputy. Graceful, nevertheless, was it on their
part in thus reco~ing a world which was
8ca:rcely worthy of their l'ecognition.
But the hom' approaches which calls me
 CONCLUSION. 245
away. Out of my windows I behold the
mammoth inter.planetar cannon piercing the
clouds. I see at its base the bomb carriage in
which I am destined, along with my brother
travellers, to invade the empyrean. Already I
see that millions are congregating to take part
~in the ceremonies in connexion with our de-
parture. As this hour witnesses me striving to
drown my cares by placing an epilogue cope-
stone on this edifice of words, the next will
witness me invading the skies; and as this
day sees me viewing the hosts of my fellow·
men, to·morrow shall Bec me mingling among
the J ovians. To-morrow I will be a witness of
tho scones of that puissant planet which enjoys
a perpetual equinox and a perennial summer.
To-day I stand on a planet whore death claims
a ,,-ictim each beat of my pulsa; io-morrow I
. shall glance upon a people IDlsullied by sin,
unknown to death, and blessed with bliss.
'Vith my heart a whirlpool of tumult, with
my mind flurried with a chaos of thoughts,
with my emotion-melted soul flowing into a
mould of reverential sorrow, I bl.J.ng my auto-
biography to a close. I leave it, trusting I
run not like unto a sculptor who vaingloriously
 rears a monument to his own memory, but
like a painter who humbly and modestly pain1;$
his own portrait-a painter who gives not t~
the canv3..."1 more beauty than Nature has given
to him, but who faithfully portrays both beauties
and blemishes as they are found in the original.
Unlike the ancients, who .dedica.ted their
works to the great, even though they should
be great scoundrels, I sink individuals in
causes, and men in measures. Having seen
man's frailties measured by the gauge of the
innocence of the inhabitants of foreign stars,
I have been taught to despise flattery to the
great, while I reverently respect the humblest.
Bacon declared men should dedicate their
hooks only to TRUTH, but took care to dedicat.e
his own works to a King. For me, I despise
such sleek ohsequious. fawnings. I boldly
transcend all such dastardly dedicators by
placing this book hopefully into the hands of
a benignant Providence~ and by consecrating
it ro the lfost High.
).fY history is now concluded for the present,
hut with God's blessing I may have such years
of usefulness added to my life, that peradven~
tUl'C its most pleasing chapter remains to bo
 CONCLUSION, 247
written. Yet my grey hairs ten me that the
courses of the men of my youth are now sunk
below Time's horizon~ and their places filled by
others. Already my star is on its wane. The
zenith of the present is filled lvith those of a
generation later than I, The summer of my
days is ended, and I long, therefore~ to make .
its harvest abundant. If God ordain things
otherwise, I can retreat upon the Divine trust
of a blessed hereafter. Prospect to the Chris~
nan is burnished with age, and the evanescent
hopes of this world are dimmed only beeaua€l
they al'e outshone by the perennial hopes which
radiate from heaven, The sun of earthly hopes
sets, only to usher in a fumament beaming
with all the star~jewels of eternity. So I feel
it to be. I have confidence that I may work
still further good in the fertile fields of phi1all~
thropy ; but more sublimely burns witllin me
the assuranee that though tl;tis blessing he de-
niod, I know that on till the last s\viug of my
life's pendulum I have God for my refuge, and
that hereafter 1S laid up for me} as for aU Chris-
tians, a crown of glory. >

'With the close of this sentence and this hook

my pen nnishes its work on earth for a time,
perhap~ for ever; so that with a swelling heart
and a tearful eye let me bid adieu to my felIow~
men.
And now] Thou who rulest the tides of our
thoughts and action~Thou who rnn-kost thy
children thy instruments or apostles,"-Thou
who, as it pleaseth Thee, makm;t our 'Work utilo
or futile, accept my thank-offering for guiding
my soul in safety thus far through life's laby-
rinths of toils, turmoils, trials and troubles;
j

and for Thy grace in having vouchsafed me

stl'ength of body and mind to Wlolte this work.
What in. it may be amiss or remiss~ is mine;
whatever is worthYl is Thine. To Thee I now
raise it as an altar in my life's pilgrimage.
If Thee we should praise for each thought to
which our mind gives birth, how deep should
be the gratitude of the author, who, after being
tossed about long in. seas of urH;ertainty, is
at length, through Thy mercy, enabled to end
his voyage and cast anchor in his purposed
haveu.
 249

EDITORIAL NOTE BY STEPHENSON WATT,

THE foregoing pages were thrust into my

hands by!Diogenes :Milton this day, just ten
minutes before he left for Jupiter, with the
request that 1 would act as their trustee and
see to their publication. This dpty I esteem a
privilege. For a century our lives have been
entwined by the Laocoon entanglements of lov.e
and rivalry. )filton,.thorefore, in making me
the foator-mother of this tho last child of his
intenect~ pays me an honour I -highly prize.
Often I look back upon his splendid career.
Often I review his life, and think how hi&
genius budded during our infimtite travel~,
flowered in our political apprenticeship, and
fruited in Parliament. Often I admire that
energy which has made him the greatest
traveller, not only of modern, but of all times.
But never did I feel more keenly the throbbings
of emotion than this morning \vhen I saw him:
consmnmating his life-long series of celestial
and terrestrial travels by setting sail for
Jupiter. ~
His Autobiography I now laurwh into tIle
 250 THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY.

ocean of literature. Books are the transports

of knowledge which convey their precious
cargoes of mental at.ores from the harboura of
the past to the havens of the future. Soma
books are mere skiffs, which convey only
ephemeral news over the narrow ferry of a few
days; some are mighty perennial crafts, which.
sail the boundless ocean of time. The book I
now edit is, I hope, no slipshod, unseaworthy
hulk, only framed to run a few time-serving
voyages. Yet, as a spanded ship has often left
port replete with power} and complete in its
essentials, and su.nk in the first storm, so the
best books may be quickly submerged in the
waters of obliVIon. }Iay the work of my be~
loved friend be spared, and may it be the
means of shedding abroad those good doctrines
and truths which haye been the pride and glory
of lIiilton' g life.
Yet when I to-day bade my friend farewell
for a time it was with hope. By the revolu;tion
in meteorology, whereby the atmosphere has
been robbed of its nitrogen, I rejoice to think
we have reason to hope our beloved President
.may still live for some eeniuries to preside over
mankind. STEPHENSON W.AT'f.

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its object. For it is plain th~t ~he pubUc must first be oomrerted to lI.
proper regard for i~ own interest; and. by ehat;git)g the borro\>,ing
for the bllyillg system, must >::ome in to buy the pubJi5he~ 0\11. He
must look, mtlreover, 10 the support and imitatIon of his brethren of
the trade. We doubt not he has made the ycnture after all due de-
llbt;;mtion, and that we may rely on his determination seconding his
10 Samuel TiIu~ley'1i! Publications,
enteTpfire, AU pmspectu= of new i!I.lldCrlildng~ tend nalur-.illy 10
exaggeration, but success will !M! well worth the waiting fOT, should it
be only the shadow of that on which Mr, Tinsley reckons, He giYe$
som" slJ"Prising figure~; he states $!)me startling facts; and, a~ a
practical man, he draws §Ome practical conchlsions. He quotes a stale~
ment of Mr, Charles Reade's, to the effect that th.-ee publishers in the
United States had disposed of no less than 370,000 copies of Mr. Reade's
latest nO'id, He estimates that the profits on tlk'tt saie-··mthe book being
published at a. dollar-mmt a.mount to £2$,000, Mr, Reade, of COUTS!!,
has a name, and we can conceive that his faults and blemishes may
positively ,ecommend themselvlf.~ to American taste, But Mr. Tinsley
remarks that if II. publi~her collld ~el1 7O,Q()t) copies in any <case, the.re
would still be £5.= of d= "db; alld e'V0U if lhe >lew system had ~
much more modemte 5'.lCCl!SS ~han that, all pe.rtil!S would still prof!:
amazingly. For Mr. Tinsley calculates the pre-fits of a sale of 2,000
cop;es of a three ,ohme edition at [,1,000; and we should [ancy the
e:tperience of most authors would lead them to bcHetre he overstates it.
It will be seen that at all events the new speculation promises bril-
liantly, and reason ,!;Od common-sense {:QiIlspi.re to teU u~ that the
rewartl must com" to him who has pati~nce (0 wait, Palmam 'lui
m~ruit .firat, and may he have his share of the profils too> MeanwhHe,
bere we have the first vohuue of Mr. Tinsley's new series in most legible
type, ill portable form, and with II. suffidl':lltly attractive exterior. The
'price is four shillings, and, the customary trade deduct;on being made
to dretllitting lihraries, it leaves them withou! excnse should they deny it
to the order of their customers,
We should apologise to Miss Kettle for keeping her wailing while we
discuss business matters wlth her pubfuher. But she knows, no doubt,
that there are times when business must take precedence of pleasure, and
coru;dentions rea.ders a.re hOll.l1d (0 djspc~e of the preface before proceeding
to th(l hook. For ',1'''' m~y 5;"y ll.t. (lllCe rh;~t we have found pleawre in
rro.ding her story. In the ,first place, it has a strong and natural local
~olot4l'ing, illld we always Hk", anything thm gives a book individuality.
In the next, there is a feminine grace about her pictllres of nam~e aJld
delineations of female charact;'f, and that always make!l a story attmetiveo
Fbally, there is a ('er.ain interest that carries us along. although the story
is loosely put together, and the demands on Olll' credulity are somewhat
incessant and importun"te. The s.",ne is laid in the \Vest Riding of
Yorkshire ; nor did it n.eed th~ tledicatimt" of ~he book to tell us that the
author was an old resident in the 1:01IThty, With considerable artistic
subtlety she lays her scenes in lhe very confines of busy Ufe. Cc,clmeys
and proflf.ssionru foreign tourists are much in the way of believing that the
manufacturing districts are severed from the genninely rural ones by a hard-

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 Samuel Tinsley's Publica.tions. 11
mnd·f1l!st line; that th<e demoa~ of ootton, (;0111, and wool blight everything
within the !;Cope vf theirb!!.leful lrilluenre. There can be no ;;realm- blunder;
nathre int~lligeoce might tell us that mills naturally follow water power,
and that a broad stream 6.lld a good fall generally imply wooded banks
lI.Ild sequestered ravines, swirliug pools, and rushlug rapids, Miss Ketde.
ru; It dweller> in the populoliS u.nd l1cul'isliing 'Vest Riding, has l<::u.med !!.II
tha.I, of course, She j~ !l.ware lx!~jdes of the poW~'1' of cOnm1!>I,; th1l!t pc'.!.OO
and solitude are neve!: so mu(,h I!.ppredaterl as when you have just quitted
the hustle of lif", and he-'& its hum mellowed Ly the dista.nce. Romallce
ia n~'ie,. so romantic as when it roba shculde.-s with the prd.c~ical, and
sensation 'piles itself up' when it is e:vohoed in the cent!!! of common·
plaoe life,
The story is in1eresting and very ple!<santly wriH'.ln, m:.d for the @ke
of ooth anthor and publisher we cordially 1/dsh it the rCl!epti:ln it deserves.

.. The most careful molher need not hesitate to place it at once in the
hands of the most unsophisticated daughter. As regards the publisher,
we can honestly sa.y tha.t the type is clear and the hook well gm up in ev",,.y
way, "~-Atken"'lim .
.. There is a natlll':tlness in this novel, published in accordance with Mr.
Tillsley's Vel'] wholesome one·voh.IID€:'J systcf!L"-Spet:failJr•
.. , The Mistress of Langdale Hall" is a bright and attractive story, which
can b<l read from beginning to <end with plea~llre, ., ~'Dtfily N=s.
" A charming 'Romanc;: of the \'iTest Riding,' full of grare and pleasing
incident."-P"bli< Opilf.im~,
,. The story is really well told, and some of the characters are delineated
with great vividness a.nd force. The tone of the book is high." -No,.-
corif=i$t.
"It is a good story, with abwlrlant imere,t, and a purity of thought and
language whkh i~ much r'.;m:r itl novels than it ought :0 be, The volume
is "handsomely got up, and conta.ins a w<lll-drav.n '4gneite and frontispiece,"
-S~ot$mal£.

" NOl only is i: w~Jtte);.with good taste: and good fcding,-it is never dull,
while at th0 same thn0 it is quite dc\'oid d sensationalism or extravaganoe,
It deah wilh life in the West Riding," -Gll)n~,
" T:.e book is admirahly got up, and contains an introductory dreular
by the publi;;her,"-Ci,;,i/ SM"Uie~ G(h1dk,
" A model of what a cheap novel :mollld be, "'"-P'Nbti.,Mr' t Cir&1JiI1T,

Samuel Tinsley, 10, Southampton Street, Strand,

12 Bllmuel Tinsley's Publications,
"A clrettlar from the publisher precedes the opening of the novel,
wherein the en.ting conditions of novel-publishing are conci$ely set forth.
It is ably and smartly written, and fOrnls by no meru:.s the least iuterestil1fl
port!OIl of ille oonlenU of the volume. \Ve stTOllgly recor4ffiend iUi
perrn;al tll> nove::! read~rs generally. "- U'dsk"'41!1.

" Few will take up Ihis entertaining volume without freling <:ornp<elled w
go through with it. \'Ve cannot entertain a doubt as to the sucee.~s of this
nove!, and the renMyks l'nade by the PUb1i.5flocr in his prefatory eireul:1Y are
of the most sensible lllld practil:cl killd.",·····HIIIIl Padi'#.

VOL, II.
pUITYPUrS PROTEGEE; or, Road, Rail, and
Riv!:r.A Story in Three Books. By HENRY GEORGE
CHURCHILL. Crown 8vo., (unifonn with H The Mistress of
Langdale Hall "), with >4 illustrations by \VALLIS MACKAY.
Post free, 4S. Sewlld edition•
.. It is a lengthened and diversified farce, fill!" of screaming fun llJld
¢omit:; delineation-a reflection of Dickens, Mrs. Malaprop, and Mr"
&udcawt, and dealing with various descriptions of social life. We have
Tead and laughed, pooh~poohed, ,md read again. :ashamed of our interest,
but our interest has been too strong for our shame. Reader:; may do
worse than surrender themsel"e, to its melo-dramatic enjoyment. From
title-page to colophon, only Dominie Sa.mpron'~ ~p;thet can describe it-it
is 'prodigiollil. '" --·Britisk Qual'tt.-ty Rtvt't'Uh
.. It is impossible ~o read • Pll1typul'. Protegee' without beIng remillided
at every t11l1l. of the cont~mpora.ry stage, and the impression it leaves on
the mind is ,lOry similar to that produced by witnessing a whole evenjug'~
entertainment at one of onr popular theatres." -Ed","

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!f1lTlCB.-A. naw wnrk by the Rim. Gr&1!.t.l!lY Po B6rkG!eyo

F ACT AGAINST FICTIONo The Habits and

Treatment of Animals Practically Considered. Hydro>
phobia and Distemper. With 30me remarks; on Darwin. By
the HON. GRANTLEY F. BERK~:U:Y. :li vols., 8vo..., 30$.

Samtlel Tinsley, 10, Southampton Street, Strand,

 Samuel TinslQY's Publica.tioIl&. 13

F LORENCE or, f...oyal Quand Meme. By

j
ARMSTRONG. Crown 8vo., 55., cloth. Post free.
FRANCES

" It is impos~ible not be imeresled in the story from begirm[ng to end.

• , • 1,Ve congratulate Mr. Samuel Tinsley on contimring to break at
lntervWs the rnOlloto"ous line of three·"olume novels. "-E..."mine/".
• , A -;ery charming love story, eminently pure and lady-like ill tone,
effective and jnteresting in plot, and, :rarest praase of all, written in excellent
English," -Civil St.vi.(;t li'tvilJ"otl,
«We should gladly welcome many more snch I,ovd., in prcierence til tha
trash which btlt too freqllemlypassp"" current for snch,"-Brigkt"", OlJ.f""'t....
" W'e cannot dose this very- illleresting work without commending it to
!l'l'el'Y ,-eader,"-D;!iyllam CQ;!{nty Adv<':rliuy.
"The book i5 excellently printed and nicely bollnd--in fact it is one
which authore.~. publisher, a.ud fel<der illa.)I' alike regard with nrlnglcl
$;ltJ~f~tiQl!l and pleasure."-Nllttingka1n D"Uy Guardia""
" 'Florence' is readable, even inter<'.sting in every part,"-Tk .'kat_aw.
"Suffice it to say ~hat fmm begill.llillg to ellld "ach chamctfll' is well
br<mght I)ut, :and what is perhaps best of all. there is a healthy vigour and
genuine ,ing aoout th{! whole corupo.;ti!ln which goo. fa.r to $how that a
truly clillSte ~one, ~!I",lained throughout, is ill IW way ir.u;,ompatihle wllh a
most engrossing story," -,CGY?1islt Td.rgrspk •
.. • Florence' is a healthy, high·toned story, which every one can read
with plellSlXe llI;d gm:ilkmioll., , • • The author writes with vivacity
and effect. To her the creation of Florence has evidentlv been a labour
of love, and we feel convinced that few t't"..aders will dose the book wilhout
feeling that they share in the affection with which the hero;ne is re,garded
by the authm."-Lads Mtrcu"".
.. Several of the characters introduced are drawn 1hith a master hand,
Florence h"r.;el[ being e.;;pedaUy worthy (If adml"l11:on."-S"sfiJrgs and Sf.
Lcowanis A dverti>llf',
" The book is decidedly far superior in tone to the generality of novels,
and is weU worth reading. , • , Miss Armstrong gi'Ve~ us m.uch ground
for hope that her pen 1hill be fertile."-L!<?JId's Week.)' Newspap£/".
.. • Florence' is therefore (as we said to begin with) a pleasant and Tead~
ahle storr, and as its influences cannot be otherwise than beneficial, we
hope itwill be wldoely re\~d:'-.Edi>llb",,.gk Dai~y R"./Jiew.
" It is essentially a lady's book. a.ru:l is desel'ving of the highest praise."
,....ldsk Daity Tdegrapk.
"We cordi.aUy wish the work :may meet with the 5l.1~res.~ it d=ve:;;
but of this we have no doubt."-D£/"byski/"£ C"", ...ie!".
" Mis> Armstrong has written a wry agreeable .tory, mUl:h more in~
lel'e!ltJng th",n ma.ny thref.-vollUne "ovels it hM'teen Ollr misfortune tOl'eM.
, . • Instead of spinning out a dreltry, !:olourless romance of interminable
length, Miss Ann~ttong has preferred to present to her readers a bright
lively, natural story of every day life." -P",bli.: Opinwn.
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14
EPITAPHIANA; or. the Curiosities of Churchyard
Literature; being a Miscellaneous Collection of Epitaphs,
with an INTRODUCnON, By W, FAIRLEYo Cro'llfn 8vlJI,.
cloth. price 55. Post free.
.. AI'la[:!ll!.5ffig book. • , • A capita:J oolkctioo af t!pitaphs:'-Cosri
Ci,..",kr.
"My. Fairley's industry has been ~ by an 3..'i.~bbge of gr0.-
tesque &nd fanlastic epitaphs, such as we Della" Jrernanber to ha'ie sam
t1tun.lled. Thry 611 an el<t:pl1t!y printoo '\'ol'Wllte:'-C",,* Ex!!mtiJUT",
"Allhough w<: hawe picked se"V<:t"oll ph.un~ from Mr. Foilik:y's book, _
= aSllUre OUl' rearl6$ that there Me plemy more lelt. And 1M}1Jf th;,t the
long l!Venings are onre more stealing upon us, and the fireside begins to re
comfortable, suggesting a book and a quiet read,. let us reoommend
Mr. Fairi"1'. who l>DOOes hero,"" tlli iu the hartd:>ome gWse aud the ~pital
type of the enterprising Mr. Samuel Tinsley:'-Der~I!iir£ Adrlwti.ur.
" His collet!;oo is not 'lniy amusing, but has a certain historical value.
es UhJ5tmting the rough !mm(.IUl' in which OUI forefathers frequently in-
dulged at Ih~ ""peru;e of the deput<d"-Stafft<n:lrhi.... Ativt:rli.rtr.
.. Vb'e ha'ie quoted enough to show tllat Mr. Fairley ha~ pmdured m
curious and entertaining 1101mne, which will _U repay perosal." -Oxfiml
C4r"",ici~ .

•• On the :score of novelty, at least, 'Epltaphiana' will attract consider·

abl~ atte3IiolL"--lmh Daily r"kgffij! .
.. Mr. Falrley has a ket.'l1 eye for a quaint epHaph, and an ~rel1"ut lie~
of what is bumQrom Cf pathetic. . • . The volume COl1i.alru; an
el{relleTht introduction relating to and""t ml'ld modem h'lrillls, mod L,
published in an attractive fomL"--Cit"l SeN.tice GilUtt~.
.. Mr. Fairley has made a quaint and <:w10US ooUection."-Th? C"Mrl
Cin,..l,w.
" A '!Iel)' inte=ting b<Jol<, the maleri,tls tndUSHiotL<Jy g-,dhoered ITnm manjr
dtie5 of the Silent iJl.l1d. alJd the rnisreUaneollS collection ClIrefully pre-
pmred for puhlication:'-Colliery GuardiaIB.
"Itt lllotieh'g lhill 00031 interesting book, woe frel we= oommend it ill,
aU ~incerity; for jmt as a <:hapter from ' Pickwiclt· is an antidote to mnui,
, Epitaphiana' may he pronolID<:ed as equally revi,ing to dull spirits. • .'"
The volume itself is quiil!: It. work of art."-Tk~ p(;raiu.
"Mr. Hurley &4ms to have gathered th~ scraps from village church·
Yll.rds and eL,ewhere, sloop!y for his OWl) amu..<;ement. but they have swollen
to such proportions that h~ has been indu<:ed to publish them; and the
subject matter of hig volume is particularly enterta.inlDg ."-h!Jlic GpiIBioIB.
"A very readabl~ v·ohun",."---Daih> Roniew.
 Samuel Ti.rulley's PublicatioDIi!. 15

THE P~IYSIOLOGY OF THE SECTS. Crown

Bvo., prH:e ,s.
A-NOTHER WORLD; or, Fragments from the Star
City of Montalluy;ili. By Third Edition, re· _
HERMES,
vised, with additions. Post 8'110., price l2S.

SUMMER SHADE AND WINTER SUNSHINE:

Poems, By Author of The
ROSA MAC10:NZIE KETTLE, <I
Mistr!;!s!) of Langdale Hall" New Edition. :25. 6d., cloth.

T HE TICHBORNE TRIAL. The Evidence of

lhndwriting, comprising Autograph Letter,; . of Roger
Tichborne, Arthur Orton (to Mary Ann Loder), and the
Defendant (early letters to Lady Tichhorne, &c.), in facsimile.
In wrapper, price 6d.
IVIARY
..
DE~M<?ND,.
NrCHOLAS j, GANNON,
AND OTHER POEMS.
Fcp. 8'110,,45., doth.
By

TB~: WITCH .of. NEM 1, and other Poems. By

. EDWARD BRENNAN. Crown 8'110., lOS. 6110

A TRUE FLEMISH STORY.

"The Eve of 51:. Nicholas." In wrapper,
By the Author of
fl>.

BALAK AND BALAAM IN EUROPEAN COS·

TUME. By the Rev. JAMES KEAN. M.A., Assistant to
the Incumbent of Markinch, Fife, &t" sewed,
A NOTHER ROW AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL.
Showing how John's Cook made an and IRISH STEW,
what came of it. 6d., sewed.
THE GOLDEN PATH: a Poem. By ISABELLA
STUART. 6d., sewed.
THE FALL OF MAN: An Answer to Mr. Darwin'a
"Descent of Man;" being a Complete Refutation, by
common-sense arguments, of the Theory of Natural Selection.
IS., sewed.

THE REDBREAST OF CANTERBURY CATHE·

D}1.AL ; Lines from the Latin of Peter du Moulin, some-
time a Prebendary of Canterbury. Translated by the Rev.
F. B. WELLS, M,A., Rector of Woodchun:h. Hand30mcly
bound, price IS,

Suluel Tinsley, 10, Southampton Street, Strand.

16 Samuel Tmsleys Publications.
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H ARRY,;S BIG BOOTS: a. Fairy Tale, for "8m.aBe

Folke. By S. E. WIth g Full-page
GAY. mu~tratlOns
and a Vignette by the authur, drawn on wood by PERCiVAL
SULTON. Crown Bvo" handsomely bound in cloth, price 58.

" 'Harry's Big Boots ' is sure of a large and appre;:iative audience. It
is :as good as a Christmas pantomime, and its illustrali<ms arl! quite equal
to ruo) tr,msformationseco.c ..•• The pictureso! Harry and Harry's seveu-
leagued lxlOt~. with their U!tle wJng;g and ftinny &lees, lro.ve nothing to .~
dl!Sired."-Daily Nr<JJ5.
«Some capilal fun wiil be found in ' Harry's Big Boots-' ••. The iUusira-
tiom are e%rellent, and 50 is th", Rtory,"-PaU M'all Gag"'!'"
"We call special attention to' Harry's Big Boots.' "-ExamiPur.
" , H:my's Big Boots' is a faUy~s!.ory in t.he style of Alice, "-Graphic
" 'Pretty and poetical .•.• the drav.ings graceful and unreal. • .. We
<Cal!. oolwd"e of few more acreptable presenis."-Co"rt Cin,,/aP.
"The illustrations are all to the p01nt, an.rl full of emertainmellt, ".~
MIJrniseg PUJt.
"An attract!v!! volume. The story reminds us of Kingsley's 'Water
Bahi",].' "······Sf....d"rd.
"Thei1lustration$areexcel.l~t. Theyoungpeop\e. :. will findablluctanl
amur-ement." -Mirro....
"Druwinia.n theol·ies .• , <U~lm",d in the a.lembi~ (If ~he Rlilhor'~ imagi-
nation and lit by her "hid fancy, constitute a series of wonders whicb wUl
astoJli~ltthe 'small~ folke.' "-Q;um.
"Miss ('..ay's oontrihllth:m to 0Ilf ~hndfen's stock of fiction ..• '''quires no
'apology.' \Vl! recommend our young friends to get the book and read
for themselves."-TM Hour.
•• Those who have read • Alice il!. Wonderland' will find tl!Js!O be It book
of the same ordey," -LittY<l',?, ~Vqyid.
"Told in a natural, vivacioll.5 mannet,"-Liberal Rroin».
.. A wonderfully clever and entertaining book, , . full of things in which
children intensely delight:' - Watchman.
"('n~mdne amu5tement.. , • S= to as:ris~ children to spt:nd many a
pleasant hour." -Luds A>.ftr"u",.
"Amusing and entertainlng."-Edidurgk C"urant.
"' A number o[wollders all aHTIlC!iveiv described. "-Brotui M·c"""I"I'.
"' A charming "l'oluml! • , , It is sparkling v,itlt hum.our."~-H"'II Pack£!.
"Invention and dash and origi>lality,"-NQsuu'if_irt.
"One of llte most channing gift-books of the 5ea..<on. "-S",a.d/urd Ob-
,ffffJc",
"A healthy book .•. merrily and frankly told."-G.wua.rter .7iJumal.
" A pl=nt lit lie manrut!, •• , 'The author has 5U!!oeeded. "-Clu/tmkam
Cimmicie.
"A most attractive hook. • •• Drawings simply perfection. • .• We
fipeak orit too highly," .... ·Ca~""""",.ik"'" Journal.
Cll.Thl:lOt
" An en~hautlng fairy-taie:'-Nortkampt.>", Mef"c,",tJ'•
.. An e<:p,blt" f.'liry.. tale:'-CMsMr, Obstl'Wel'",
., Most entertaining."-l;"lke.rf!JIM Ck!"l.mide.
" Beautifully illustmted, •• A mpital gm~book." - W ak~,ftld E,t:prm.
"The inteff'.-llt increases page after page."-Basebu~J' Aavertistr.
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Samuel TingleYl lO~ Southampton Street, Strand.