John Jacob Astor
A Journey to Other Worlds
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2018 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-4804-9
Table of Contents
Chapter III. President Bearwarden's Speech
Chapter IV. Prof. Cortlandt's Historical Sketch of the World in A. D. 2000
Chapter V. Dr. Cortlandt's History Continued
Chapter VI. Far-Reaching Plans
Chapter I. The Last of the Earth
Chapter IV. Preparing to Alight
Chapter V. Exploration and Excitement
Chapter VI. Mastodon and Will-O'-The Wisps
Chapter VIII. Sportsmen's Reveries
Chapter IX. The Honey of Death
Chapter X. Changing Landscapes
Chapter XII. Hills and Valleys
Chapter XIII. North-Polar Discoveries
Chapter II. The Spirit's First Visit
Chapter III. Doubts and Philosophy
Chapter IV. A Providential Intervention
Chapter VI. A Great Void and a Great Longing
Chapter VII. The Spirit's Second Visit
Chapter VIII. Cassandra and Cosmology
Chapter IX. Doctor Cortlandt Sees His Grave
Chapter XI. Dreamland to Shadowland
Chapter XIII. The Priest's Sermon
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 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