CHAOS
in myriads."
CHAOS
A VISION OF ETERNITY
BY
ALTAIR
ILLUSTRATED BY
VICTOR PERARD
From designs by the author
"It is an open secret to the few who know it
but a mystery and a stumbling block to the
many that Science and Poetry are own sisters."
NEW YORK
DOUGLAS C. McMURTRIE
1919
Copyright, 1919Douglas C. McMurtie
All Rights Reserved
DEDICATED TO THOSE
"WHO THEMSELVES IN SOME
MEASURE ALSO SEE VISIONS
AND DREAM DREAMS."
RUSKIN
| Page | ||
| Preface | ix | |
| Introduction | xi | |
| Prologue in two scenes: | ||
| Scene I. Birth of the Universe | 1 | |
| Scene II. The Eternal Question | 6 | |
| The Vision of Eternity: | ||
| I. | To-day | 10 |
| II. | To-morrow | 20 |
| III. | The End of Man | 28 |
| IV. | Disintegration | 37 |
| V. | The Skeptic in Chaos | 45 |
| Index | 53 |
|- | | |align=right|Opposite Page |- |align=right|1. |At intervals strange shapes in myriads |align=right|Frontispiece |- |align=right|2. |The western bank of Hudson's mighty stream |align=right|10 |- |align=right|3. |The steel-framed structures that once pierced the sky |align=right|28 |- |align=right|4. |Great bridges that once spanned the river's tide |align=right|30 |- |align=right|5. |A library far-famed in all the land |align=right|32 |- |align=right|6. |The crumbling world is vitrified and bare |align=right|37 |- |align=right|7. |Art thou the famed Aurora of the classic age? |align=right|40 |- |align=right|8. |A peace-dispensing radiance filled the scene |align=right|45 |}