CONTENTS.
PROLOGUE- History of Llewellyn Drury,
I. Home of Llewellyn Drury- ” Never Less Alone than When Alone.”………………….. 3
II. A Friendly Conference with Prof. Chickering, . . . . . . .16
III. A Second Interview with the Mysterious Visitor, . . . . .23
IV. A Search for Knowledge-The Alchemistic Letter . . . . . . 35
V. The Writing of ” My Confession,” . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
VI. Kidnapped, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
VII. A Wild Night-I am Prematurely Aged, . . . . . . . . . . 55
VIII. A Lesson in Mind Study, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
IX. I Can Not Establish My Identity,. . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
X. My Journey Towards the End of Earth Begins-The Adepts’ Brotherhood, . . . . . .74
XI. My Journey Continues-Instinct,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
XII. A Cavern Discovered-Biswell’s Hill,. . . . . . . . . . . 84
XIII. The Punch Bowls and Caverns of Kentucky-” Into the Unknown Country,” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
XIV. Farewell to God’s Sunshine-” The Echo of the Cry,” . . . 99
XV. A Zone of Light, Deep Within the Earth, . . . . . . . . .105
XVI. Vitalized Darkness-The Narrows in Science, . . . . . . .109
XVII. The Fungus Forest-Enchantment, . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
XVIII. The Food of Man, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
XIX. The Cry from a Distance-I Rebel Against Continuing the Journey, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
FIRST INTERLUDE.- THE NARRATIVE INTERRUPTED.
XX. My Unbidden Guest Proves His Statements, and Refutes My Philosophy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
MY UNBIDDEN GUEST CONTINUES HIS MANUSCRIPT.
XXI. My Weight Disappearing, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
SECOND INTERLUDE.
XXII. The Story Again Interrupted-My Guest Departs,. . . . . 149
XXIII. Scientific Men Questioned-Aristotle’s Ether, . . . . 151
XXIV. The Soliloquy of Prof. Daniel Vaughn-” Gravitation is the Beginning and Gravitation is the End: All Earthly Bodies Kneel to Gravitation,” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
THE UNBIDDEN GUEST RETURNS TO READ HIS MANU-CHAPTER. SCRIPT, CONTINUING THE NARRATIVE. PAGE.
XXV. The Mother of a Volcano-” You Can Not Disprove, and You Dare Not Admit,” . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 162
XXVI. Motion from Inherent Energy- ” Lead Me Deeper Into this expanding Study,” .. . . . . . . . 169
XXVII. Sleep, Dreams, Nightmare-” Strangle the Life from My Body,” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
THIRD INTERLUDE.-THE NARRATIVE AGAIN INTERRUPTED.
XXVIII. A Challenge-My Unbidden Guest Accepts It, . . . . . . 179
XXIX. Beware of Biology-The Science of the Life of Man-The Old Man relates a Story as an Object Lesson, . . . . . . . . . . .186
XXX. Looking Backward-The Living Brain, . . . . . . . . . . . 193
THE MANUSCRIPT CONTINUED.
XXXI. A Lesson on Volcanoes-Primary Colors are Capable of Farther Subdivision, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
XXXII. Matter is Retarded Motion- “A Wail of Sadness inexpressible,”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
XXXIII. “A Study of True Science is a Study of God”-Communing with Angels, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224
XXXIV. I Cease to Breathe, and Yet Live, . . . . . . . . . . 226
XXXV. “A Certain Point Within a Circle “- Men are as Parasites on the Roof of Earth , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
XXXVI. The Drinks of Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235
XXXVII. The Drunkard’s Voice, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
XXXVIII. The Drunkard’s Den, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
XXXIX. Among the Drunkards, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
XL. Further Temptation-Etidorbpa Appears, . . . . . . . . . . 252
XLI. Misery, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
XLII. Eternity Without Time, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
FOURTH INTERLUDE.
XLIII. The Last Contest,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
THE NARRATIVE CONTINUED.
XLIV. The Fathomless Abyss-The Edge of the Earth’s Shell, . . 306
XLV. My Heart-throb is Stilled, and Yet I Live, . . . . . . . 310
XLVI. The Inner Circle, or the End of Gravitation-In the Bottom- less Gulf, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
XLVII. Hearing Without Ears-“What Will Be the End?” . . . . . 322
XLVIII. Why and How-The Straggling Ray of Light from those Farthermost Outreaches,. . . . . . 327
XLIX. Oscillating Through Space-The Earth Shell Above Us, . . 333
L. My Weight Annihilated-“Tell me,” I cried in alarm, ” is this a Living Tomb?” . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 340
LI. Is That a Mortal?-” The Find of Earth,” . . . . . . . . . 345
FIFTH INTERLUDE.
LII. The Last Farewell, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
EPILOGUE-Letter Accompanying the Mysterious Manuscript, . . . 360
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