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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