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PROLOGUE—History of Llewellyn Drury, |
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Home of Llewellyn Drury—"Never Less Alone than When Alone." |
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II. |
A Friendly Conference with Prof. Chickering, |
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III. |
A Second Interview with the Mysterious Visitor, |
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A Search for Knowledge—The Alchemistic Letter. |
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The Writing of "My Confession," |
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VI. |
Kidnapped, |
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VII. |
A Wild Night—I am Prematurely Aged, |
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VIII. |
A Lesson in Mind Study, |
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I Can Not Establish My Identity, |
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X. |
My Journey Towards the End of Earth Begins—The Adepts’ Brotherhood, |
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XI. |
My Journey Continues—Instinct, |
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XII. |
A Cavern Discovered—Biswell's Hill, |
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XIII. |
The Punch Bowls and Caverns of Kentucky—"Into the Unknown Country," |
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Farewell to God's Sunshine—"The Echo of the Cry," |
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XV. |
A Zone of Light, Deep Within the Earth, |
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XVI. |
Vitalized Darkness—The Narrows in Science, |
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XVII. |
The Fungus Forest—Enchantment, |
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XVIII. |
The Food of Man, |
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XIX. |
The Cry from a Distance—I Rebel Against Continuing the Journey, |
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FIRST INTERLUDE.—THE NARRATIVE INTERRUPTED.
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My Unbidden Guest Proves His Statements, and Refutes My Philosophy, |
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MY UNBIDDEN GUEST CONTINUES HIS MANUSCRIPT.
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XXI. |
My Weight Disappearing, |
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SECOND INTERLUDE.
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XXII. |
The Story Again Interrupted—My Guest Departs, |
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XXIII. |
Scientific Men Questioned—Aristotle's Ether, |
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XXIV. |
The Soliloquy of Prof. Daniel Vaughn—"Gravitation is the Beginning and Gravitation is the End: All Earthly Bodies Kneel to Gravitation," |
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THE UNBIDDEN GUEST RETURNS TO READ HIS MANUSCRIPT, CONTINUING THE NARRATIVE.
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The Mother of a Volcano—"You Can Not Disprove, and You Dare Not Admit," |
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XXVI. |
Motion from Inherent Energy—"Lead Me Deeper Into this Expanding Study," |
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XXVII. |
Sleep, Dreams, Nightmare—"Strangle the Life from My Body," |
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THIRD INTERLUDE.—THE NARRATIVE AGAIN INTERRUPTED.
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XXVIII. |
A Challenge—My Unbidden Guest Accepts It, |
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XXIX. |
Beware of Biology—The Science of the Life of Man—The Old Man relates a Story as an Object Lesson, |
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XXX. |
Looking Backward—The Living Brain, |
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THE MANUSCRIPT CONTINUED.
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XXXI. |
A Lesson on Volcanoes—Primary Colors are Capable of Farther Subdivision, |
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XXXII. |
Matter is Retarded Motion—"A Wail of Sadness Inexpressible," |
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XXXIII. |
"A Study of True Science is a Study of God"—Communing with Angels, |
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XXXIV. |
I Cease to Breathe, and Yet Live, |
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XXXV. |
"A Certain Point Within a Circle"—Men are as Parasites on the Roof of Earth, |
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XXXVI. |
The Drinks of Man, |
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XXXVII. |
The Drunkard's Voice, |
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XXXVIII. |
The Drunkard's Den, |
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XXXIX. |
Among the Drunkards, |
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Further Temptation—Etidorhpa Appears, |
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XLI. |
Misery, |
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XLII. |
Eternity Without Time, |
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FOURTH INTERLUDE.
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XLIII. |
The Last Contest, |
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THE NARRATIVE CONTINUED.
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XLIV. |
The Fathomless Abyss—The Edge of the Earth's Shell, |
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XLV. |
My Heart-throb is Stilled, and Yet I Live, |
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XLVI. |
The Inner Circle, or the End of Gravitation—In the Bottomless Gulf, |
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XLVII. |
Hearing Without Ears—"What Will Be the End?" |
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XLVIII. |
Why and How—The Straggling Ray of Light from those Farthermost Outreaches, |
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XLIX. |
Oscillating Through Space—The Earth Shell Above Us, |
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My Weight Annihilated—"Tell me," I cried in alarm, "is this a Living Tomb?" |
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Is That a Mortal?—"The End of Earth," |
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FIFTH INTERLUDE.
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The Last Farewell, |
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EPILOGUE—Letter Accompanying the Mysterious Manuscript, |
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