Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth

Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth
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This book purports to be a manuscript dictated by a strange being named I-Am-The-Man to a man named Llewyllyn Drury. Drury's adventure culminates in a trek through a cave in Kentucky into the core of the earth. It blends passages on the nature of physical phenomena, such as gravity and volcanoes, with spiritualist speculation and adventure-story elements (like traversing a landscape of giant mushrooms).

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John Uri Lloyd. Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth

Etidorhpa

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

ETIDORPHA

CHAPTER I "NEVER LESS ALONE THAN WHEN ALONE."

CHAPTER II. A FRIENDLY CONFERENCE

CHAPTER III. A SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE MYSTERIOUS VISITOR

THE MANUSCRIPT OF I—AM—THE—MAN

CHAPTER IV. A SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE.—THE ALCHEMISTIC LETTER

CHAPTER V. THE WRITING OF MY CONFESSION

CHAPTER VI. KIDNAPPED

CHAPTER VII. A WILD NIGHT.—I AM PREMATURELY AGED

CHAPTER VIII. A LESSON IN MIND STUDY

CHAPTER IX. I CAN NOT ESTABLISH MY IDENTITY

CHAPTER X. MY JOURNEY TOWARDS THE END OF EARTH BEGINS.—THE ADEPTS' BROTHERHOOD

CHAPTER XI. MY JOURNEY CONTINUES.—INSTINCT

CHAPTER XII. A CAVERN DISCOVERED.—BISWELL'S HILL

CHAPTER XIII. THE PUNCH-BOWLS AND CAVERNS OF KENTUCKY.—"INTO THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY."

CHAPTER XIV. FAREWELL TO GOD'S SUNSHINE.—THE ECHO OF THE CRY

CHAPTER XV. A ZONE OF LIGHT DEEP WITHIN THE EARTH

CHAPTER XVI. VITALIZED DARKNESS.—THE NARROWS IN SCIENCE

CHAPTER XVII. THE FUNGUS FOREST.—ENCHANTMENT

CHAPTER XVIII. THE FOOD OF MAN

CHAPTER XIX. THE CRY FROM A DISTANCE.—I REBEL AGAINST CONTINUING THE JOURNEY

INTERLUDE—THE STORY INTERRUPTED

CHAPTER XX. MY UNBIDDEN GUEST PROVES HIS STATEMENT AND REFUTES MY PHILOSOPHY

MY UNBIDDEN GUEST CONTINUES READING HIS MANUSCRIPT

CHAPTER XXI. MY WEIGHT DISAPPEARING

INTERLUDE.—THE STORY AGAIN INTERRUPTED

CHAPTER XXII. MY UNBIDDEN GUEST DEPARTS

CHAPTER XXIII. I QUESTION SCIENTIFIC MEN.—ARISTOTLE'S ETHER

CHAPTER XXIV. THE SOLILOQUY OF PROF. DANIEL VAUGHN.—"GRAVITATION IS THE BEGINNING AND GRAVITATION IS THE END: ALL EARTHLY BODIES KNEEL TO GRAVITATION."

THE UNBIDDEN GUEST RETURNS TO READ HIS MANUSCRIPT. CONTINUING HIS NARRATIVE

CHAPTER XXV. THE MOTHER OF A VOLCANO.—"YOU CAN NOT DISPROVE, AND YOU DARE NOT ADMIT."

CHAPTER XXVI. MOTION FROM INHERENT ENERGY.—"LEAD ME DEEPER INTO THIS EXPANDING STUDY."

CHAPTER XXVII. SLEEP, DREAMS, NIGHTMARE.—"STRANGLE THE LIFE FROM MY BODY."

INTERLUDE.—THE STORY INTERRUPTED

CHAPTER XXVIII. A CHALLENGE.—MY UNBIDDEN GUEST ACCEPTS IT

CHAPTER XXIX. BEWARE OF BIOLOGY, THE SCIENCE OF THE LIFE OF MAN.[6]

CHAPTER XXX. LOOKING BACKWARD.—THE LIVING BRAIN

THE MANUSCRIPT CONTINUED

CHAPTER XXXI. A LESSON ON VOLCANOES.—PRIMARY COLORS ARE CAPABLE OF FARTHER SUBDIVISION

CHAPTER XXXII. MATTER IS RETARDED MOTION

CHAPTER XXXIII "A STUDY OF SCIENCE IS A STUDY OF GOD."—COMMUNING WITH ANGELS

CHAPTER XXXIV. I CEASE TO BREATHE, AND YET LIVE

CHAPTER XXXV "A CERTAIN POINT WITHIN A SPHERE."—MEN ARE AS PARASITES ON THE ROOF OF EARTH

CHAPTER XXXVI. DRUNKENNESS.—THE DRINKS OF MAN

CHAPTER XXXVII. THE DRUNKARD'S VOICE

CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE DRUNKARD'S DEN

CHAPTER XXXIX. AMONG THE DRUNKARDS

CHAPTER XL. FURTHER TEMPTATION.—ETIDORHPA

CHAPTER XLI. MISERY

CHAPTER XLII. ETERNITY WITHOUT TIME

INTERLUDE

CHAPTER XLIII. THE LAST CONTEST

THE OLD MAN CONTINUES HIS MANUSCRIPT

CHAPTER XLIV. THE FATHOMLESS ABYSS.—THE EDGE OF THE EARTH SHELL

CHAPTER XLV. MY HEART THROB IS STILLED, AND YET I LIVE

CHAPTER XLVI. THE INNER CIRCLE, OR THE END OF GRAVITATION.—IN THE BOTTOMLESS GULF

CHAPTER XLVII. HEARING WITHOUT EARS.—"WHAT WILL BE THE END?"

CHAPTER XLVIII. WHY AND HOW.—"THE STRUGGLING RAY OF LIGHT FROM THOSE FARTHERMOST OUTREACHES."

CHAPTER XLIX. OSCILLATING THROUGH SPACE.—EARTH'S SHELL ABOVE ME.[14]

CHAPTER L. MY WEIGHT ANNIHILATED.—"TELL ME," I CRIED IN ALARM, "IS THIS TO BE A LIVING TOMB?"

CHAPTER LI. IS THAT A MORTAL?—"THE END OF EARTH."

INTERLUDE

CHAPTER LII. THE LAST FAREWELL

EPILOGUE. LETTER ACCOMPANYING THE MYSTERIOUS MANUSCRIPT

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The End of Earth

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CHAPTER XLIII. THE LAST CONTEST.

THE OLD MAN CONTINUES HIS MANUSCRIPT.

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