A World of Highest Invention.

A fertilizer invented making possible the raising of six crops in one of our years.  A Tube Line for passenger and freight traffic.  Wonderful storage batteries.  A telephone that not only carries sound, but transmits the gestures and faces of the speakers.  Thought photography.

CHAPTER XVI.

A Singular Planet.

On Zik decisive battles between nations are not fought by armies on land or navies on the sea, but by flying war ships called Flying Devils sailing in the air.  A battle witnessed.  Illustration.  A practical way of settling the strife between capital and labor.  The art of maintaining youthful vigor in old ago.

CHAPTER XVII.

The Diamond World.

On the brightest planets of the universe diamonds are as plenty as soil is on our Earth, but soil is as scarce and valuable as diamonds are in our world.  The heart-rending oppression of the “Soil Trust” in the Diamond World portrayed.  Illustration.  The 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 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.