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CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| Gray and Mormonism | 28 |
| A proselytizing scrape | 31 |
| Minor polemics: White and Brown | 33 |
| Forecasting the future. At our pace of progress what are things to come to in the future? | 34 |
| My own general forecast | 35 |
| Black's scientific forecast | 36 |
| Yellowly's social and political forecast | 38 |
| Reed's religious forecast | 40 |
| Gray's Mormon forecast | 41 |
| Brown's remarkable dream | 41 |
| A memorable holiday trip | 42 |
| CHAPTER II.
It Is Indeed No Other Than a Thousand Years Hence—A Business Expedition—Home and Foreign Trading, and the Home Tour—The Chief Hardware and Energy Districts of Our Day. | |
| What travelling is in these advanced times | 45 |
| The crowd of our modern life | 46 |
| A scientific experiment quite in character | 47 |
| Cabs, cab-stands, and cab-travel | 48 |
| Our modern money | 51 |
| Our first business destination | 53 |
| Subterranean life, and the "sub" system | 54 |
| The Stock Exchange of these days—Rise and progress of the great Bullings | 55 |
| CHAPTER III.
Life and Business in the Twenty-Ninth Century. | |
| A great subterranean abode | 59 |
| A subterranean landscape | 61 |
| The hardware and Energy trade in A.D. 2882 | 63 |
| A glance also at the provision trade, and the world's great food question | 65 |
| Retrospective view of the trade | 66 |
| Value and resource of the dead to the living | 68 |
