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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape Scripting... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ... needed for modern science to emerge in the West. 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but ... ...r winds. By the fifteenth century, their descendants had spread as far north as the seashore above Scandinavia, as far west as the Atlantic Ocean... ... is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a century before Magellan circum... ...st riders known as arrow messengers across Mongolia five centuries before America‘s ―pony express.‖ Besides embracing the Mongol military traditi... ...d separately in England and the United States, it crystallized on May 24, 1844, with Samuel Morse‘s ―What hath God wrought?‖ (Numbers 23:23) message...

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...irst Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves ...

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...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

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...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape Scripting... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ... needed for modern science to emerge in the West. 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but ... ...ur winds. By the fifteenth century, their descendants had spread as far north as the seashore above Scandinavia, as far west as the Atlantic Ocean... ... is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a century before Magellan circum... ...st riders known as arrow messengers across Mongolia five centuries before America‘s ―pony express.‖ Besides embracing the Mongol military tradition... ...d separately in England and the United States, it crystallized on May 24, 1844, with Samuel Morse‘s ―What hath God wrought?‖ (Numbers 23:23) message...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...2 The Undead Ruin and Poison Everything they can Pg 1843 Hitler and WW2 Pg 1844 One Example of Undead evil: Kaiser Wilhelm II and Hitler Pg 186... ...t places where squirrels choose to hide their stores of seeds and nuts. Most Northern forests are planned by the unconscious instinctive decisions o... ...m the original Runners. Who ran with the wild migrating herds in their yearly North- South migrations. As a result: they became slightly braver th... ...of a few lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B...

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...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ..., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprint... ...mpathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was published in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation,... ..., New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Asco... ...ntury AD onwards. Today Buddhism is a minority religion in India, although north and eastwards throughout all of Asia it has become the dominant relig... ...ily, when I lost footing as I was fording the Mekong River, near Rakshi in Northern Tibet. When I reached the shore, in a few minutes my clothes froze... ...GINS Christianity had its origins in Palestine and the areas imme- diately north. In the first century AD this area was one of the outposts of the Rom... ...p. The appearance to Marie Soubirous, better known as Saint Bernadette, in 1844 when Marie was fourteen, led to the establishment of the shrine at Lou...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ER I INTRODUCTORY N ear seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printe... ...al Mountains of Wales do gradually rise, in a miscellaneous manner, on the north side of it; but on the south are no mountains, not even land, only th... ...led 77 Thomas Carlyle the Charib Country, extending for many miles to the north of Colonarie, and formerly containing the finest sets of works and be... ...nsiderable clouds of Invasion, from Spanish exiles, hung minatory over the North and North- East of Spain, supported by the new-born French Democ- rac... ...ndicate a still and whole- some way of life and work. Not till “April 4th, 1844,” did the new alarm occur: again on some slight accident, the breaking... ...dward C. Sterling, London. “Hillside, Ventnor, 29th June, 1844. “My Dear Boy,—We have been going on here as quietly as possible, with...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...re to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

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...TOBER 5, 1843. ................................................................................................... 23 SPEECH: LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY 26, 1844. .................................................................................................... 28 SPEECH: BIRMINGHAM, FEBRUARY 28, 1844. ...............................................................................

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...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if ...

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...urs of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or...

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...EOPARD .............................................................................................................................. 108 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE............................................................................................................ 115 THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET. ......................................................................

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............................................................................................................. 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING ...................................................................... 61 BON-BON........................................................................................................................................

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...es, and the result is a thor- ough diffusion of the proper feeling. But in America, the coins current being the sole arms of the aristocracy, their di... ...- nies to twirl it by steam. Glare is a leading error in the philosophy of American house- hold decoration—an error easily recognised as deduced from ... ...d de- 39 V olume Five velop my morals:—that is the secret. By and by the “North American Quarterly Humdrum” will make them ashamed of their stupidity... ... of course, with the occa- sion. The author who, after the fashion of “The North Ameri- can Review,” should be upon all occasions merely “quiet,” must... ...led the destinies of American Letters, in conducting the thing called “The North American Review.” The poem just cited is espe- cially beautiful; but ... ... upright, I have wandered home but newly From this ultimate dim Thule. 1844. 166 EA Poe HYMN At morn—at noon—at twilight dim— Maria! thou hast he...