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SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.
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insatiable greed of "Trusts" follows the poor people into their sepulchers.

CHAPTER XVIII.
Triumphant Feat of Orion.

Description of a tunnel through the center of Holen, a globe 500 miles in diameter. Illustration of passenger car used. Its operation, explained.

CHAPTER XIX.
The Mute World.

Muteites have no audible language. They converse by pure thought transmission, and no one can conceal evil thoughts. When a Muteite criminal is brought before a Court of Justice the doors of his soul are unlocked so that all past thought-images, photographed on the sensitive living plates of his mind, are thrown open to view. No hypocrisy, no conventional lying.

CHAPTER XX.
Brief.

The world of Brief sustains the shortest lived human beings of our universe. What we in our world crowd into seventy or eighty years of life the Briefites crowd into the narrow compass of about four years of our time. Journalism, footwear, raiment, transportation, public highways, business, religious life, etc, portrayed under such mad-rush environments.

CHAPTER XXI.
The Life on Wings.

The inhabitants of Swift are charmingly beautiful, and many of them can be seen gracefully moving