PIRAKNO--Machine for drawing electricity from space. PIRAMO--The meteorological families. RIMLA--The centre of force. SALOSAN--The gustagraph. SARIFOLAN--Instrument that interprets for sight, hearing, and the electric sense the graphic records of the mirlan. SARMOLAN--Cosmic barometer. SIDRALAN--Biometer. SIDRALMO--Bio-chemical families. SIDRAMO--The chemical families. TERRALONA--The edifice of outlook into heaven and hell. THINAMAR--Visualiser of sound. TIRLEOMORAN--Electric earth-perforator. TREMOLAN--Electric clock indicating the changes of electricity in various parts of the island. TREVAMOLAN--Graduated modifier of sound. VAMOLAN--Makro-mikrakoust. VIMOLAN--Photo-electric analyser. ERRATA Page 31, line 6. _For_ “resistent” _read_ “resistant.” Page 93, line 16. _For_ “maintained” _read_ “maimed.” Page 155, line 2. _For_ “I that felt” _read_ “I had felt.” Page 211, lines 13 and 17. _For_ “somnifractive” _read_ “somnifactive.” Page 230, line 3. _For_ “onwonted” _read_ “unwonted.” Page 348, last line. _For_ “rareity” _read_ “rarity.” Page 369, line 12. _For_ “amosphere” _read_ “atmosphere.” Page 377, line 5. _For_ “its” _read_ “it.” Page 440, line 17. _For_ “we the saw” _read_ “we saw the.” Page 465, line 8 from bottom. _For_ “thought” _read_ “through.” LIMANORA BOOK I The Outer or Material Civilisation CHAPTER I MY AWAKENING I OPENED my eyes in a world no feature of which I could recognise. Everything around me was of the most dazzling beauty. The walls and vaulted roof of the room where I lay gleamed like mosaic-work of lit jewellery. The floors were duller, and yet shone with a coloured radiance like that in a dew-belled meadow under the light of the slant-rayed forenoon sun. The light broke up in innumerable points and corners of the roof into a magnificent display of prismatic colours, moving and changing every minute. Yet, with all the marvellous iridescence, there was sufficient shade in the vault and walls to check the fiery oppression of the sun. I had dreamt of such fairy palaces; but the dream had ever been abortive or glanced off into something hideous or appalling. Here was architecture as unlike anything I had seen upon earth as a dream, and yet it had a grace that no dream had ever caught.