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A Journey in Other Worlds
A Journey in Other Worlds
Astor, John Jacob
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A Journey in Other Worlds
Astor, John Jacob
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1994
Note: Illustrations included.
Note: The author was born in 1864, published this book (after spending over two years writing it) in
1894. He went down with the Titanic in 1912.
Note: The two footnotes have been moved from the end of the pages to the end of their respective
paragraphs.
About the print version
A Journey in Other Worlds
John Jacob Astor
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A Journey in Other Worlds
D. Appleton and Company
New York
1894
Spell-check and verification made against printed text: University of Virginia, PS 1039.A85J6 1894
Published: 1894
English fiction; prose
Revisions to the electronic version
April 1994 corrector Kelly Tetterton
● Conversion to TEI tagging.
etext@virginia.edu. Commercial use prohibited; all usage governed by our Conditions of Use:
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A JOURNEY
IN OTHER WORLDS
A ROMANCE OF THE FUTURE
BY
JOHN JACOB ASTOR
ILLUSTRATED
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A Journey in Other Worlds
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1894
COPYRIGHT, 1894 ,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED
AT THE APPLETON PRESS, U. S. A.
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PREFACE.
The protracted struggle between science and the classics appears to be drawing to a close, with victory
about to perch on the banner of science, as a perusal of almost any university or college catalogue shows.
While a limited knowledge of both Greek and Latin is important for the correct use of our own language,
the amount till recently required, in my judgment, has been absurdly out of proportion to the intrinsic
value of these branches, or perhaps more correctly roots, of study. The classics have been thoroughly and
painfully threshed out, and it seems impossible that anything new can be unearthed. We may equal the
performances of the past, but there is no opportunity to surpass them or produce anything original. Even
the much-vaunted "mental training" argument is beginning to pall; for would not anything equally
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difficult give as good developing results, while by learning a live matter we kill two birds with one
stone? There can be no question that there are many forces and influences in Nature whose existence we
as yet little more than suspect. How much more interesting it would be if, instead of reiterating our past
achievements, the magazines and literature of the period should devote their consideration to what we do
not know! It is only through investigation and research that inventions come; we may not find what we
are in search of, but may discover something of perhaps greater moment. It is probable that the principal
glories of the future will be found in as yet but little trodden paths, and as Prof. Cortlandt justly says at
the close of his history, "Next to religion, we have most to hope from science."
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A Journey in Other Worlds
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CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
● I. -JUPITER. 3
● II. -ANTECEDENTAL 17
● III.-PRESIDENT BEARWARDEN'S SPEECH 20
● IV. -PROF. CORTLANDT'S HISTORICAL SKETCH
OF THE WORLD IN A.D. 2000 34
● V. -DR. CORTLANDT'S HISTORY CONTINUED 52
● VI. -FAR-REACHING PLANS 80
● VII.-HARD AT WORK 95
● VIII.-GOOD-BYE 109
BOOK II.
● I. -THE LAST OF THE EARTH 121
● II. -SPACE AND MARS 130
● III.-HEAVENLY BODIES 144
● IV. -PREPARING TO ALIGHT 155
● V. -EXPLORATION AND EXCITEMENT 162
● VI. -MASTODON AND WILL-O'-THE-WISP 172
● VII.-AN UNSEEN HUNTER 186
● VIII.-SPORTSMEN'S REVERIES 195
● IX. -THE HONEY OF DEATH 207
● X. -CHANGING LANDSCAPES 220
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XI. -A JOVIAN NIAGARA 232
● XII.-HILLS AND VALLEYS 247
● XIII.-NORTH-POLAR DISCOVERIES 266
● XIV.-THE SCENE SHIFTS 281
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A Journey in Other Worlds
BOOK III.
● I. -SATURN 299
● II. -THE SPIRIT'S FIRST VISIT 310
● III.-DOUBTS AND PHILOSOPHY 328
● IV. -A PROVIDENTIAL INTERVENTION 339
● V. -AYRAULT'S VISION 347
● VI. -A GREAT VOID AND A GREAT LONGING 353
● VII.-THE SPIRIT'S SECOND VISIT 373
● VIII.-CASSANDRA AND COSMOLOGY 387
● IX. -DR. CORTLANDT SEES HIS GRAVE 410
● X. -AYRAULT 421
● XI. -DREAMLAND TO SHADOWLAND 431
● XII.-SHEOL 442
● XIII.-THE PRIEST'S SERMON 450
● XIV.-HIC ILLE JACET 458
● XV. -MOTHER EARTH 471
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING NINE DRAWINGS BY MR.
DAN. BEARD, AND A DIAGRAM.
● The Callisto and the Comet Frontispiece
● The Callisto was going straight up 115
● The Signals from the Arctic Circle 127
● Diagram of the Comparative Sizes of the Planets 155
● The Ride on the Giant Tortoise 190
● A Battle Royal on Jupiter 208
● The Combat with the Dragons 342
● Ayrault's Vision 350
● They look into the Future 414
● The Return 474
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