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Title A Thousand Years Hence. Being Personal Experiences
Author Nunsowe Green
Year 1882
Publisher S. Low
Location London, England
Source djvu
Progress Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
Transclusion Fully transcluded
OCLC 1085605047
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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Introductory and Quite Indispensable to All the Chapters That Follow.

Page
Of myself and my wife 1
My most particular intimates, White and Brown 3
Formation of the great S.S.U.D.S., and discussions on questions of the day 5
My additional intimates, Black, Yellowly, and Reed 6
Black, and science questions: Electricity and the Cross-Electric 9
Yellowly on social and political questions 9
On democracy and progress 10
On trade unions 11
On future amelioration of labour conditions 12
On social advance, and some present remediable defects 14
On some great lines of attainable progress 15
Reed, and religious questions 17
Reasonableness and common sense in religion 17
Righteousness and usefulness of life 19
Extreme views: Eternal hell 19
The Sunday question: Sabbath v. Lord's Day 21
"Answers to prayer" 24
The "praising" of God 24
Sensational religion 25
A popular revival preacher 26
The future of good but sceptical men 27
Gray and Mormonism 28
A proselytizing scrape 31
Minor polemics: White and Brown 33
Forecasting the future. At our pace of progress what are things to come to in the future? 34
My own general forecast 35
Black's scientific forecast 36
Yellowly's social and political forecast 38
Reed's religious forecast 40
Gray's Mormon forecast 41
Brown's remarkable dream 41
A memorable holiday trip 42
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 45
The crowd of our modern life 46
A scientific experiment quite in character 47
Cabs, cab-stands, and cab-travel 48
Our modern money 51
Our first business destination 53
Subterranean life, and the "sub" system 54
The Stock Exchange of these days—Rise and progress of the great Bullings 55
CHAPTER III.

Life and Business in the Twenty-Ninth Century.

A great subterranean abode 59
A subterranean landscape 61
The hardware and Energy trade in A.D. 2882 63
A glance also at the provision trade, and the world's great food question 65
Retrospective view of the trade 66
Value and resource of the dead to the living 68
CHAPTER IV.

Our Foreign Business Tour: The Outer Circuit.

My various plans and projects of travel 73
A bargain with old Brown 74
A glimpse of the great Ballings of the Stock Exchange 75
Yet one more of my projects 76
Off to Mars 77
Voyaging incidents, safeguards, and accommodations 77
CHAPTER V.

A Retrospect of a Thousand Years.

Some chief causes of our great progress—
Great increase of population 83
The woman as well as the man at work for the world 84
Universal education of the people 85
A new page turned in university life 88
Cessation of war: how and when it came about 89
Trades' union reform, and advancing condition of our working classes 90
A word on co-operation—its e onomies and progress 92
The great Parliamentary block, and its final cure by the "Special Hansard" 94
State aid to progress by means of Special Trusts 97
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 105
Progress consummation for the time, in the grand discovery of the Cross-Electric 107
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 129
Special trusts: The great scheme of a resanitated London 132
Reception of the project 133
The opposition 134
Mode of the work as to finance 135
An episode of the project 137
General plan of the work 138
Some chief features 139
Concentration of the public offices 144
Other special trusts: the national drama 146
Housekeeping economy for the masses—Mechanics' hotels 149
No longer "Ireland our difficulty" 152
CHAPTER VIII.

The Twentieth Century: Some of Its Prominent Features.

A passing Transatlantic family jar 156
Club life after the nineteenth century 158
Women's clubs 162
A trade union crisis of the twentieth century 165
Social resanitation: a disposition to take society's evils thoroughly in hand 168
1. Our new policy with crime 170
2. As to begging and general vagabondage 173
Yet one more step of advance and reform 176
An enemy still capturing our territory, even after the entire cessation of war 177
A trade union strike at the end of the twentieth century 179
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 182
The United National Trades Union, and its first centenary of the death of Yellowly 185
Address of its president 185
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 192
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 204
State intervention in marriage 206
Marriage settlements 208
Divorce in the twenty-second century 209
Two typical instances 210
A new "International" in this twenty-second century 213
CHAPTER XI.

The Twenty-Third Century: Its Social Aspects.

A completing social resanitation 225
The Selphnil family 228
CHAPTER XII.

The Twenty-Fourth Century: Its Religious Aspects.

The great Mormon Church 234
Its trials 235
Its triumphs 236
Other or lesser Churches. The old Roman 239
The Anglican 240
Others, various and conflicting 241
CHAPTER XIII.

The Dawn of the Twenty-Fifth Century: Its General Aspects.

New and enlarged career for our English race 247
Old England's last premier 249
His portentous session; inauguration address; the features and signs of his time 251
Some striking features of his time 252
The Crown of Labour 255
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 264
Electro-Light speed 265
The Duplication 265
Extreme simplicity when known 268
Grand results from the discovery 269
Our "'prentice hand" in missives to outside worlds 270
A missive from outside to ourselves 272
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 276
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 318
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 331
Politics 332
A Marsian public dinner 333
An attack: a Marsian "leading article" 334
Arrival at Io, the First Jovian moon 338
Physical features 339
Manners and customs of the Ioans 342
Return home via Vesta and some other planetoids 346
Vestian people and business 348
CHAPTER XIX.

Our Foreign Tour: The Inner Circuit.

Preparations 350
An old friend turns up once more 351
Our further programme of travel 353
Arrival at Venus 353
Arrival at Vulcan 355
Vulcanian features and peculiarities 357
The Vulcanian people 358
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 376
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 390