The false eye is not of flesh but one of manufacture.  It is placed in sensitive connection with the optic nerve, on which images are thrown by the delicate mechanism of the false eye.  The sight thus obtained is almost one-half as distinct as that which is enjoyed by the normal eye.

These medical wizards also make artificial ears which are about as satisfactory as the natural ears.  In certain lines of surgery we are equal to these Dore-lynites, but we cannot register with them in the whole category of surgical achievements.  They have simply distanced us by five hundred years.  That is, I believe that in five hundred years we can reach the fields of glory which they now occupy.

Think of laying bare a human lung and treating it with a special preparation for extreme cases of lung diseases, and also treating it with a “baking” for department cases of a disease similar to pneumonia.  Perhaps the most wonderful class of operations is performed on the heart and the brain.

The heart is laid bare under a sheet of thermal rays.  Fatty tissues are removed and other obstructions eradicated during the regular heart beats.

The government grants certain privileges of experimenting on her lowest class of criminals, and it is well nigh incredible what has been accomplished by cerebrum operations.

Certain murderers of vile propensities have been so changed by an operation on the cerebrum that they have no power of recalling their past life and are incapable of uttering an oath.  And what is more strange, they are intent on leading an upright life and being intensely religious withal.

I am compelled to crowd a world of glorious life into a few paragraphs, but I hope that I have given such as will be for our good.

CHAPTER XIV.

A World of Low Life.

When one witnesses an exhibition he must, of necessity, look upon the poorer parts of it.  This was my experience in my universal journey, for on some worlds which I visited I found that human civilization was at a low ebb.  One of the most notable of this class is the world next beyond Dore-lyn.

This sphere is one thousand times as large as ours, and the beastly creatures that inhabit it are four times our size.

The toilers in the deep valleys of Mars are favorably intelligent compared with these specimens of humanity.  For convenience, I will call this world Scum.  Its people are so constituted that their two arms can be used as legs; so it is quite common to see these Scumites travel over their planet like the more graceful of our quadrupeds.  Their walking, however, is principally after our fashion, and they can change about at pleasure.  Either way of travel seems as natural as the other.  When they walk on two limbs, the body is erect, presenting a stature of such gigantic proportions as to over-awe a representative of our world.