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Another World
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Title: Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
Author: Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes)
Release Date: August 10, 2005 [EBook #16503]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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ANOTHER WORLD;
OR
FRAGMENTS FROM THE STAR CITY
OF
MONTALLUYAH.
BY
HERMES.
[Illustration.]
LONDON: SAMUEL TINSLEY, 10, SOUTHAMPTON ST., STRAND, 1873.
[_The right of Translation is reserved._]
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, AND CHARING CROSS.
PREFACE.
The fact that there is a plurality of worlds, that, in other words, the planets of our solar system are inhabited, has been so generally maintained by modern astronomers, that it almost takes its place among the truths commonly accepted by the large body of educated persons. As two among the many works, which bear directly on the subject, it will be here sufficient to name Sir David Brewster's 'More Worlds than One, the Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian,' and Mr. B.A. Proctor's 'Other Worlds than Ours.'
A fragmentary account of some of the ways peculiar to the inhabitants of one of these "star worlds," and of their moral and intellectual condi