Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       PART FIRST

       THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE

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       II

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       V

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       IX

       X

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       XII

       “DOROTHEA MAKELY.

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       XXI

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       XXIII

       XXIV

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       XXVII

       END OF PART I

       PART SECOND

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

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       VII

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       XIII

       XIV

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       THE END

INTRODUCTION

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      Aristides Homos, an Emissary of the Altrurian Commonwealth, visited the United States during the summer of 1893 and the fall and winter following. For some weeks or months he was the guest of a well-known man of letters at a hotel in one of our mountain resorts; in the early autumn he spent several days at the great Columbian Exhibition in Chicago; and later he came to New York, where he remained until he sailed, rather suddenly, for Altruria, taking the circuitous route by which he came. He seems to have written pretty constantly throughout his sojourn with us to an intimate friend in his own country, giving freely his impressions of our civilization. His letters from New York appear to have been especially full, and, in offering the present synopsis of these to the American reader, it will not be impertinent to note certain peculiarities of the Altrurian attitude which the temperament of the writer has somewhat modified. He is entangled in his social sophistries regarding all the competitive civilizations; he cannot apparently do full justice to the superior heroism of charity and self-sacrifice as practised in countries where people live upon each other as the Americans do, instead of for each other