Chapter II: Introduction: Page xxiii

I.--MONTALLTUYAH.

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

II.--VYORA.

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

III--PERSEVERANCE.

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

IV.--LIGHT FROM DARKNESS.

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

V.--CHARACTER-DIVERS--EDUCATION.

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

VI.--CORRECTION OF FAULTS.

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

VII.--CHARACTER-DIVERS.

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

VIII.--THE STAR CITY.

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

IX.--THE SUSPENDED MOUNTAIN.

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

X.--THE MOUNTAIN SUPPORTER.

Dimensions--Thickness of walls--Interior area--How utilised--Means
of ascending and descending--Stages constructed at different
heights to facilitate works during progress--Materials, provisions,
&c., raised by electric power--HUGE HEAVY BLOCKS LIGHTENED BY
ELECTRICITY--Ornamentation of the Tower--Ravine-metal--Episodes of
the Narrator's reign--Ascent and descent--Great difference of
atmosphere above and below--Peculiarity in Electric
Telegraph--Colour of atmosphere at different heights--Animalculae
and ova--Grandeur of the Mountain Supporter---Curious effect when
viewed from a distance

XI--ELECTRICITY IN MONTALLUYAH.

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

XII.--THE PAIN-LULLER.

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

XIII.--THE MICROSCOPE.

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

XIV.--PHYSICIANS--DISEASE GERMS.

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

XV.--MADNESS.

Minute divisions of brain examined by microscope--Former
neglect--Early indications rarely noticed--Supposed lunatics often
wiser than their keepers--An instance--The man's statements laughed
at--World believe him a confirmed madman--Madness not now assumed
from seeming absurdities--Thoughts formerly scoffed at, now
acknowledged facts--Minute divisions of brain responding to trains
of thought--Effectual remedies for earliest symptoms--Cure of
developed madness--Former error which prevented cure--The disease
does not exist in the _overworked_ portion of the brain

XVI.--THE DEATH SOLACE--INSECTS.

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

XVII.--INTERNAL CITIES--SUNSHINE PICTURES

Special precautions against excessive heat in the extreme
season--_Internal cities_ built in galleries--Their advantages--How
light admitted--Flowers--Beauty and odours increased by
electricity--Communication between the palaces in the External and
Internal World--Narrator's summer-palace--The pictures
representing principal events of his reign--Sun power
utilised--Sunshine: how _fixed_ on the canvas

XVIII.--THE PICTURES.

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

XIX.--WOMAN.

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

XX.--CHOICE OF A HUSBAND.

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

XXI.--THE DRESS OF SHAME--SUN COLOURS.

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

XXII.--COSTUMES.

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

XXIII.--PREPARATIONS FOR THE MARRIAGE.

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

XXIV.--FLOWERS.

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

XXV.--FLOWERS IMPROVED BY ELECTRICITY.

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

XXVI.--SONG OF ADMIRATION.

(_Explanation of terms used in the Song of Admiration._)

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

XXVII.--SYLIFA.

XXVIII.--THE YOUNG GIRL RESTORED.

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

XXIX.--THE LITTLE GOATHERD.

XXX.--DECORATIONS FOR AGE AND MERIT.

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

XXXI.--BEAUTY.

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

XXXII.--INFANTS' EXERCISE-MACHINES.

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

XXXIII.--GYMNASTICS.

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

XXXIV.--THE AMUSEMENT GALLERY.

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

XXXV.--PRAYER.

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

XXXVI.--FLOCKS AND HERDS.

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

XXXVII.--THE ALLMANYUKA.

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

XXXVIII.--PAPER.

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

XXXIX.--CONSUMPTION--THE ÉMEUTE.

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

XL.--THE HARP.

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

XLI.--SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.

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

XLII.--THEATRES--ENTERTAINMENTS.

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

XLIII--SHIPS.

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

XLIV.--PICTURES FROM WATER.

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

XLV.--THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.

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

XLVI.--WILD ANIMALS.

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

XLVII.--THE SUN.

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