This approaches necromancy, seemingly, and yet in my opinion, as I now see the matter, such unexplained and recondite occurrences appear unscientific, because of the shortcomings of students of science. Occult phenomena, at some future day, will be proved to be based on ordinary physical conditions to be disclosed by scientific investigations [for "All that is is natural, and science embraces all things"], but at present they are beyond our perception; yes, beyond our conception. Whether I have been mesmerized, or have written in a trance, whether I have been the subject of mental aberration, or have faithfully given a life history to the world, whether this book is altogether romance, or carries a vein of prophecy, whether it sets in motion a train of wild speculations, or combines playful arguments, science problems, and metaphysical reasonings, useful as well as entertaining, remains for the reader to determine. So far as I, Llewellyn Drury, am concerned, this is-- THE END. [Illustration: handwritten script] Had the above communication and the missing fragment of manuscript been withheld (see page 161), it is needless to say that this second edition of Etidorhpa would not have appeared. On behalf of the undersigned, who is being most liberally scolded by friends and acquaintances who can not get a copy of the first edition, and on behalf of these same scolding mortals, the undersigned extends to I-Am-The-Man the collective thanks of those who scold and the scolded.--J. U. L. [Illustration: handwritten script] This introduction, which in the author's edition was signed by the writer, is here reprinted in order that my views of the book be not misconstrued.--J. U. L. THE LIFE OF PROF. DANIEL VAUGHN BY PROF. RICHARD NELSON TO WHICH IS ADDED AN ACCOUNT OF HIS DEATH BY FATHER EUGENE BRADY, S.J. [Illustration: PROF. DANIEL VAUGHN.] Story of the Life of Prof. Daniel Vaughn.[17] [17] Reprinted from the Cincinnati Tribune. BY PROF. RICHARD NELSON. HIS VALUABLE LIBRARY SHOWING MARKS OF MUCH STUDY. Twelve Years' Record in the Chair of Chemistry at the Cincinnati College of Medicine. [A paper read before the Literary Club by Prof. Richard Nelson.]