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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... ...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... ...s, dolphins, and seals.  Our lack of body hair—again similar to aquatic animals.  Greasy waterproofing skin.  Very tiny webbing between the fi... ...h disproportionately big brains without having lived primarily on aquatic animals and plants from shallow fresh and coastal waters. Dr. Crawford... ...llows the air that powers our sound system to pass through. Most other animals’ voice boxes sit upright behind the tongue and into the back of the... ...est of the Horatio Alger dime-novel tales. Darius was born September 5, 1825, in Westchester county, NY. His father, a wealthy man whose investmen... ...ionize computing. In a 1945 Atlantic Monthly article ―As We May Think,‖ he described a theoretical machine he called a ―memex.‖ He targeted its mi...

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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... ...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... ...s, dolphins, and seals.  Our lack of body hair—again similar to aquatic animals.  Greasy waterproofing skin.  Very tiny webbing between the fi... ...h disproportionately big brains without having lived primarily on aquatic animals and plants from shallow fresh and coastal waters. Dr. Crawford a... ... allows the air that powers our sound system to pass through. Most other animals’ voice boxes sit upright behind the tongue and into the back of the... ... best of the Horatio Alger dime-novel tales. Darius was born September 5, 1825, in Westchester county, NY. His father, a wealthy man whose investmen... ...ionize computing. In a 1945 Atlantic Monthly article ―As We May Think,‖ he described a theoretical machine he called a ―memex.‖ He targeted its micr...

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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... ...are that it is traveling through the Medium of water as it travels? No. Are animals aware that they are traveling through the medium of Air as they... ...n also look at this as a Causal Process. The Triality of our Universe can be described not as split segments of scientific information, but as a Pro... ...ame from, as naked apes who stood up and began wondering about things. Human animals were never designed to unravel all of the mysteries of the inf... ...A-c-B): from any Triality. All aspects of our 3-dimensional Universe can be described in these three basic ways. A Totality, a Duality, and a Tri... ... root 12. This is why when life evolved; it evolved into three basic kinds of animals: Sponges, Cnidarians, and Flatworms. This is why animals have ... ...A-c-B): from any Triality. All aspects of our 3-dimensional Universe can be described in these three basic ways. A Totality, a Duality, and a Tri...

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... and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted above, which come from an early letter to his sister when as yet he had not ?found his way,? characterize him, I think, better than at least some of the...

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...titude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither and thither upon the fierce waves of the crowd, bustling, shifting, struggling to keep himself somewhat above water--fighting for reputation, or more likely for bread, and ceaselessly ...

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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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...zac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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.................................................... 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824.................................................

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... . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the rai... ...he railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the ... ...lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. 1 From this place, which is about on... ...e sluices. We filed into the rude logger’s camp at this place, such as I have described, without ceremony, and the cook, at that moment the sole occupa... ...tastic rocks rising here and there from its surface, made a scene not easily described. It has left such an impression of stern, yet gentle, wildness ... ...it erally, covered every square rod on the sides of the mountain; and these animals are probably more numerous there now than ever before, being driv... ...aid that they can step over a five feet gate in their ordinary walk. They are described as exceedingly awkward looking animals, with their long legs an... ...te in their ordinary walk. They are described as exceedingly awkward looking animals, with their long legs and short bodies, making a ludicrous figure ... ...tious rites, — to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to wild animals than we. We walked over it with a certain awe, stopping, from tim...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

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...lle, the father, was a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The Norman then sold the estate he owned in Bessin, and became a Gascon, allured by the beauty of the chateau de Lanstrac, a delightful residence owned by his wife...

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...on of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a ma...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...earts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That... ...l in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilet, and never see the great soul in a man’s face.” 14 B... ...use that gets its own living is more interesting. I like to think that the animals about us have souls something like our own, and either carry on the... ...Freshitt and Tipton had pronounced her clever, that epithet would not have described her to circles in whose more precise vocabulary clever ness impl... ...f Will was not always perfect, this was certainly one of his good days. He described touches of incident among the poor people in Rome, only to be see... ...ting that house, but she liked, as she said, to see collections of strange animals such as there would be at this funeral; and she had persuaded Sir J... ...rner who had plashed among them as if from the moon. This was the stranger described by Mrs. Cadwallader as frog faced: a man perhaps about two or thr...