PAPER--Its connection with the Allmanyuka--The incident which led
to its discovery
XXXIX.--CONSUMPTION--THE EMEUTE.
Consumption--Why generally beyond cure--Erroneous views--The
patient--Examination by the doctors--Their mistake--Narrator's
belief--Potion administered--Death--Cause discovered--Mode of
detecting and curing the disease in its germ--Assemblage of the
multitude--Episode of the mother and the child--The sequel
XL.--THE HARP.
The principal musical instrument--Description--Four sets of
chords--Strings of electricity--Marvellous variation and
depression of the notes--Echoes and responses--Diapason changed to
an extraordinary extent--Different characters of sound
produced--Examples--Harp language; how taught--Accompaniments--Harp
beautiful as a work of sculptural art--Movement of birds, flowers,
and foliage, and exhalation of perfume in accord with the
music--How idea was suggested
XLI.--SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.
Amusements enjoined--Learned men prone to seclusion--Wisdom of
requiring studious men to cultivate social relations
questioned--Twenty men selected for the experiment--Result--The
works of the "Seclusionists" and of the "Society-Sympathisers"--The
MONOMANIAC--His eccentricities and cure--Convert to the Narrator's
views
XLII.--THEATRES--ENTERTAINMENTS.
Arenas--Electricity--Why arenas open to the sky--Games exhibited--
Beautiful effects produced--MAN and HORSE--The FLYING
CHILDREN--WILL--DEAF AND DUMB CHILD--The MONKEYS--Tragic
Drama--Races and public games--Parties for children--Labouring
people--The aged--Districts--The middle-aged--INTRODUCTION of
strangers--Ceremony observed--ATTRACTING-MACHINE
XLIII--SHIPS.
Peculiar form and construction--Former shape--Effective model
sought--"Swan Ships"--Dangers of navigation--Ship sometimes
submerged--Sufferings of the passengers for want of
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John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.