Three Hundred Years Hence

Reprint of the 1950 ed. published by Prime Press, Philadelphia, as no. 2 of the Prime Press series of reprints of early American Utopian novels. "Forms the first part of a volume entitled Camperdown; or, News from our neighbourhood: being sketched, by the author of 'Our neighbourhood,' published in Philadelphia, 1836." This edition is in the Gregg Press Science Fiction Series. Includes bibliographical references.

An excerpt from the beginning of CHAPTER I:

IT is seldom that men begin to muse and sit alone in the twilight until they arrive at the age of fifty, for until that period the cares of the world and the education of their young children engross all their thoughts. Edgar Hastings, our hero, at thirty years of age was still unmarried, but he had gone through a vast deal of excitement, and the age of musing had been anticipated by twenty years. He was left an orphan at fourteen, with a large income, and the gentleman who had the management of his estates proved faithful, so that when a person of talents and character was wanted to travel with the young man, a liberal recompense was at hand to secure his services. From the age of fourteen to twenty-one he was therefore travelling over Europe; but his education, instead of receiving a check, went on much more advantageously than if he had remained at home, and he became master of all the modern languages in the very countries where they were spoken. The last twelve months of his seven years' tour was spent in England, being stationary in London only during the sitting of Parliament.