ers.

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 on wings through the air. A
charming conversation with Plume, the most beautiful woman in the
universe. Illustration.

CHAPTER XXII.

Heaven.

Its greatness, permanency, inhabitants, degrees, seven typos of
intelligences, unity, employments, transportation, sexual
affinities, structural aspects, etc., uniquely portrayed.

PREFACE.

Any person having a reasonable education will admit that there are many
planetary worlds besides the one on which we live. But whether or not
they are inhabited is an open question with most people. We had been in
doubt on this point for many years, but now we are settled in our
conviction that human life exists in many different worlds of space. We
can give no proof of this except that we have just returned from the
greatest journey we ever took. We went from world to world over long
distances of space as easily as one could go from place to place on the
surface of our earth. _This was a journey of the soul_, for surely flesh
and bone could not have traveled such amazing distances. At times we
were lost to this world, being entirely absorbed in the glimpses of
other worlds that were flashing upon our view in happy succession.

It can been seen without saying that this book contains no more than a
fragment of the things we saw and heard--the fragment that is most