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| CHAPTER IV.
Our Foreign Business Tour: The Outer Circuit. | |
| Page | |
| My various plans and projects of travel | 73 |
| A bargain with old Brown | 74 |
| A glimpse of the great Ballings of the Stock Exchange | 75 |
| Yet one more of my projects | 76 |
| Off to Mars | 77 |
| Voyaging incidents, safeguards, and accommodations | 77 |
| CHAPTER V.
A Retrospect of a Thousand Years. | |
| Some chief causes of our great progress— | |
| Great increase of population | 83 |
| The woman as well as the man at work for the world | 84 |
| Universal education of the people | 85 |
| A new page turned in university life | 88 |
| Cessation of war: how and when it came about | 89 |
| Trades' union reform, and advancing condition of our working classes | 90 |
| A word on co-operation—its e onomies and progress | 92 |
| The great Parliamentary block, and its final cure by the "Special Hansard" | 94 |
| State aid to progress by means of Special Trusts | 97 |
| How we reduced the interest rate, and finally extinguished our National Debt | 100 |
| State assistance free to the poorer youth | 104 |
| Progress by speciality of study | 105 |
| Progress consummation for the time, in the grand discovery of the Cross-Electric | 107 |
| CHAPTER VI.
A Chapter on Some Early but High Political Changes. | |
| Political and constitutional development, and the Commonwealth of England | 112 |
| The story as to how war came at last to its end | 114 |
| An incident out of war-cessation | 122 |
| The map of Europe after the nineteenth century | 122 |
