Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley
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from seeming absurdities--Thoughts formerly scoffed at, now
acknowledged facts--Minute divisions of brain responding to trains of thought--Effectual remedies for earliest symptoms--Cure of developed madness--Former error which prevented cure--The disease does not exist in the _overworked_ portion of the brain XVI.--THE DEATH SOLACE--INSECTS. Insects contain valuable electricities--Whole crops destroyed by them--Mode of capturing, &c.--Impurities removed by insects--The DEATH SOLACE XVII.--INTERNAL CITIES--SUNSHINE PICTURES Special precautions against excessive heat in the extreme season--_Internal cities_ built in galleries--Their advantages--How light admitted--Flowers--Beauty and odours increased by electricity--Communication between the palaces in the External and Internal World--Narrator's summer-palace--The pictures representing principal events of his reign--Sun power utilised--Sunshine: how _fixed_ on the canvas XVIII.--THE PICTURES. Subjects of some of the pictures in the Narrator's "Internal World" Palace |
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