Read it through once

When I found myself in that other world, which was to me as real as this, and as natural to my senses, I at once set about understanding and dealing with it by the only means I possessed — my reason and the knowledge I had acquired in my own time. I did my best to bring the light of modern practical science and industry to bear upon the darkness of medieval superstition and ignorance, and the struggles, successes, and failures that followed make up the greater part of the narrative which I now offer to the public.