Lynn Thompson
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669 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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And for traveling a thousand miles in twenty-four hours, may cover the ocean with floating islands movable in any desired direction with an immense power and celerity.
In perfect security and with all the comforts and luxuries, bearing gardens and palaces with thousands of families, and provided with rivulets of sweet water.
May explore the interior of the globe and travel from pole to pole in a fortnight and
Provide himself with means yet unheard of for increasing his knowledge of the world.
And so his intelligence, leading a life of continual happiness, of enjoyment yet unknown.
Free himself from almost all the evils that afflict mankind.
Except death.
and even put death far beyond the common period of human life.
And finally, render it less afflicting from the houses to be built will be afforded the most enrapturing views to be fancied.
From the galleries, from the roof, and from its turrets may be seen gardens as far as the eye can see.
Full of fruits and flowers, arranged in the most beautiful order with walks, colonnades, aqueducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphitheatres, terraces, fountains, sculptured works, pavilions, gondolas, places for public amusement to delight the eye and fancy.
All this to be done by urging the water, the wind and the sunshine to their full development.
Mr Etzler gives plates of the machinery by which all this is to be done.
He proposes the organization of a company and says small shares of twenty dollars will be sufficient, in all from two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand dollars to
To create the first establishment of a whole community.
Of from three to four thousand individuals.
At the end of five years we shall have a principal of two hundred millions of dollars, and so paradise will be wholly regained at the end of the tenth year.
There is more reason in this than in many of the plans proposed, but mechanical forces can never recreate the world.
I shall take no shares in the large company that is proposed.
My faith is that Christianity will yet make the worst street of our cities better than the best street is now.
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