Introductory and Quite Indispensable to All the Chapters That Follow.
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Of myself and my wife
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My most particular intimates, White and Brown
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Formation of the great S.S.U.D.S., and discussions on questions of the day
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My additional intimates, Black, Yellowly, and Reed
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Black, and science questions: Electricity and the Cross-Electric
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Yellowly on social and political questions
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On democracy and progress
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On trade unions
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On future amelioration of labour conditions
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On social advance, and some present remediable defects
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On some great lines of attainable progress
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Reed, and religious questions
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Reasonableness and common sense in religion
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Righteousness and usefulness of life
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Extreme views: Eternal hell
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The Sunday question: Sabbath v. Lord's Day
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"Answers to prayer"
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The "praising" of God
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Sensational religion
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A popular revival preacher
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The future of good but sceptical men
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Gray and Mormonism
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A proselytizing scrape
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Minor polemics: White and Brown
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Forecasting the future. At our pace of progress what are things to come to in the future?
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My own general forecast
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Black's scientific forecast
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Yellowly's social and political forecast
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Reed's religious forecast
40
Gray's Mormon forecast
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Brown's remarkable dream
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A memorable holiday trip
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CHAPTER II.
It Is Indeed No Other Than a Thousand Years Hence—A Business Expedition—Home and Foreign Trading, and the Home Tour—The Chief Hardware and Energy Districts of Our Day.
What travelling is in these advanced times
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The crowd of our modern life
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A scientific experiment quite in character
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Cabs, cab-stands, and cab-travel
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Our modern money
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Our first business destination
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Subterranean life, and the "sub" system
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The Stock Exchange of these days—Rise and progress of the great Bullings
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CHAPTER III.
Life and Business in the Twenty-Ninth Century.
A great subterranean abode
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A subterranean landscape
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The hardware and Energy trade in A.D. 2882
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A glance also at the provision trade, and the world's great food question
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Retrospective view of the trade
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Value and resource of the dead to the living
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CHAPTER IV.
Our Foreign Business Tour: The Outer Circuit.
My various plans and projects of travel
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A bargain with old Brown
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A glimpse of the great Ballings of the Stock Exchange
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Yet one more of my projects
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Off to Mars
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Voyaging incidents, safeguards, and accommodations
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CHAPTER V.
A Retrospect of a Thousand Years.
Some chief causes of our great progress—
Great increase of population
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The woman as well as the man at work for the world
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Universal education of the people
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A new page turned in university life
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Cessation of war: how and when it came about
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Trades' union reform, and advancing condition of our working classes
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A word on co-operation—its e onomies and progress
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The great Parliamentary block, and its final cure by the "Special Hansard"
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State aid to progress by means of Special Trusts
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How we reduced the interest rate, and finally extinguished our National Debt
100
State assistance free to the poorer youth
104
Progress by speciality of study
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Progress consummation for the time, in the grand discovery of the Cross-Electric
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CHAPTER VI.
A Chapter on Some Early but High Political Changes.
Political and constitutional development, and the Commonwealth of England
112
The story as to how war came at last to its end
114
An incident out of war-cessation
122
The map of Europe after the nineteenth century
122
CHAPTER VII.
The Nineteenth Century. What Could Still Be Done With Its Small Remainder.
What befell court dress
129
Our most exemplary episcopate
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Special trusts: The great scheme of a resanitated London
132
Reception of the project
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The opposition
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Mode of the work as to finance
135
An episode of the project
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General plan of the work
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Some chief features
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Concentration of the public offices
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Other special trusts: the national drama
146
Housekeeping economy for the masses—Mechanics' hotels
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No longer "Ireland our difficulty"
152
CHAPTER VIII.
The Twentieth Century: Some of Its Prominent Features.
A passing Transatlantic family jar
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Club life after the nineteenth century
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Women's clubs
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A trade union crisis of the twentieth century
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Social resanitation: a disposition to take society's evils thoroughly in hand
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1. Our new policy with crime
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2. As to begging and general vagabondage
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Yet one more step of advance and reform
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An enemy still capturing our territory, even after the entire cessation of war
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A trade union strike at the end of the twentieth century
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CHAPTER IX.
The Twenty-First Century: Its Illustration by a Progress of Principles.
Our National Church, as it appeared and fared in this twenty-first century of our era
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The United National Trades Union, and its first centenary of the death of Yellowly
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Address of its president
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The Union's reforms
186
Its political intervention and results. Some chief political questions of the day
187
A new order of rank, national and international
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Woman's position in society
195
Aspects and prospects: our country and the world in this the twenty-first century
196
Our empire as it emerged into this twenty-first century
199
CHAPTER X.
The Twenty-Second Century: Its Illustration by Our Social Ways.
Marriage in the twenty-second century
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State intervention in marriage
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Marriage settlements
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Divorce in the twenty-second century
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Two typical instances
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A new "International" in this twenty-second century
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CHAPTER XI.
The Twenty-Third Century: Its Social Aspects.
A completing social resanitation
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The Selphnil family
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CHAPTER XII.
The Twenty-Fourth Century: Its Religious Aspects.
The great Mormon Church
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Its trials
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Its triumphs
236
Other or lesser Churches. The old Roman
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The Anglican
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Others, various and conflicting
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CHAPTER XIII.
The Dawn of the Twenty-Fifth Century: Its General Aspects.
New and enlarged career for our English race
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Old England's last premier
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His portentous session; inauguration address; the features and signs of his time
251
Some striking features of his time
252
The Crown of Labour
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CHAPTER XIV.
Science Progeess Over a Thousand Years’ Retrospect.—Part I. From the Discovery of the Cross-Electric to That of the Duplication of the Cross.
The Cross-Electric Principle
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Electro-Light speed
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The Duphcation
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Extreme simplicity when known
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Grand results from the discovery
269
Our "'prentice hand" in missives to outside worlds
270
A missive from outside to ourselves
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CHAPTER XV.
Science Progress in a Thousand Years’ Retrospect.—Part II. From Discovery of the Duplication of the Cross, up to Discovery of the Reduplication.
Reproduction of successive past aspects of our earth
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Curious questions and solutions, scientific and historical
280
Intercourse with worlds outside: the "Higher Life" of the Universe
282
Some special outside acquaintances
284
The condition of the press in these our modern times
287
An editor of the time
289
Our outside-world acquaintance—Coloured-sun systems
290
Effects of solar colour
292
A ternary coloured system. Blue, Green, Red, and respective peculiarities of people
293
Its striking midnight skies, and effect upon the mind
296
CHAPTER XVI.
Science Progress in a Thousand Years' Retrospect.—Part III. Grand Climax of the Discovery, by Black, of the Reduplication.
Black's grand discovery: what was it?
303
Black's practical application: first outside voyage
304
To and from the moon: preparations
305
Departure, and voyage
308
Exploration and condition of the moon
310
Return to earth
312
CHAPTER XVII.
Interplanetary Personal Intercourse.
Venus and the Venusians
314
History and features
316
Mars and the Marsians
317
Physical features
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Marsian progress
319
Things social and political
321
Other members of our solar system
327
CHAPTER XVIII.
Our Foreign Tour, Resumed From Chapter IV.: The Outer Circuit.
Arrival at Mars: reception
330
Business
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Politics
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A Marsian public dinner
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An attack: a Marsian "leading article"
334
Arrival at Io, the First Jovian moon
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Physical features
339
Manners and customs of the Ioans
342
Return home via Vesta and some other planetoids
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Vestian people and business
348
CHAPTER XIX.
Our Foreign Tour: The Inner Circuit.
Preparations
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An old friend turns up once more
351
Our further programme of travel
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Arrival at Venus
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Arrival at Vulcan
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Vulcanian features and peculiarities
357
The Vulcanian people
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Arrival at the sun : danger of the voyage
359
CHAPTER XX.
The Sun, and the Solar Populations. A Yet "Higher Life" There.
Upper and Lower Solardom
366
The Upper Solar people
368
Our personal experience of them
372
Their grand science attainments
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CHAPTER XXI.
Relates Chiefly to a Very Curious Dream of Mine.
A cross with Brown—this time not the Cross-Electric
381
My dream, and the disappointing awakening
383
CHAPTER XXII.
Home's Realities at Last: Real, at Any Rate, if Still Further Disappointing
