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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...y years. But that doesn‘t explain the relatively high number in France or Germany. And Norway, with its state religion of Lutheranism, is quite athe... ... overhaul of the collective human psyche. ―Protesters at World Bank conferences advocate eliminating poverty. Nice idea, but there‘s not enoug... ...om a societal basis. ―Nations routinely try to steal the military and diplomatic secrets of other countries. Computer hacking, planting moles or... ...urse, are not under the jurisdiction of the United States laws. They have diplomatic immunity. But children of illegal aliens are considered to be c... ...way.‖ —―As you may know, the United Nations has sponsored several conferences on controlling population but objections came from nations wit... ... suffering of poverty, illness and overcrowding. In fact delegates at the conferences have agreed that reproductive health is a human right.‖ 446 ...
...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...
...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. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wel... ...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... ... already proven a dream? Or can we read between the lines of the war news, diplomatic disputations, threats and accusations, political wranglings and ... ...hips. It may be a queerly constituted body at first; it may be of a merely diplomatic pretension; it may be called a Congress, or any old name of that... ...he peace negotiations will take the extraordinary form of two simultaneous conferences—one of the Pledged Allies, sitting probably in Paris or London,... ...elpful person who is asked out to dinner, who is even admitted to week-end conferences, by the political great. He takes his orders from the Whig peer... ...nly swept out of Europe by the storm. My host happened to be a man of some diplomatic stand- ing, and several of them came and talked to him. They wer... ...undations of such a system to-day unawares. The unstable and fluctuat- ing conferences of the Allies to-day, their repeated experi- ences of the disad...
...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ka... ...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... ...offering him at the same time that engraving which I have at last found in Germany, after two years’ search. He is now engaged in analyzing hair: Chif... ...the return of the Bourbons and anxious to stand well at court, had gone to Germany and bought up all the debts contracted by the princes during the em... ...f romance. The mutual satisfaction of Cesar and Anselme, betrayed by looks diplomatically exchanged, the glance full of hope which Popinot cast now an... ...t home the various viands demanded by the splendor of the entertainment. A diplomatic treaty was arranged be- tween the famous Chevet and the perfumer... ...ame in at this moment, and bowed to the perfumer, looking about him with a diplomatic air. “Monsieur,” he whispered to Cesar presently, “you can easil... ...g a bitch. A few bold curs slipped, in spite of him, into the sanctum. The conferences lasted five, ten, or fifteen minutes. Some went away chap-falle...
...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. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...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... ...ky rooms in Washington what he should think about disarmament, tariff, and Germany, so did the large national advertisers fix the surface of his life,... ...’ve never done anything the way we thought we would. I expected to live in Germany with my granddad’s people, and study the fiddle.” “That’s so. And r... ...to dance hardly more ‘n half the time.” Every breakfast was monopolized by conferences on the affair. No one listened to Babbitt’s bulletins about the... ...coil- ing, his shoulders moving, but he felt, desperately, that he must be diplomatic, and not till he saw Paul paying the check did he bluster to the... ... Germany, of lobbying for single tax in Washington, of international labor conferences. He men- tioned his friends, Lord Wycombe, Colonel Wedgwood, Pr... ...at a man doesn’t do a darn thing but sit on his chair and have lovey-dovey conferences with a lot of classy dames and give ‘em the glad eye!” “I guess...
...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. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ...nkie’s demise), and finding the advancement slow, he at length gave up the diplomatic service in some disgust, and began to turn country gentleman. 8... ...rview Pitt Crawley made a great stroke, and one which showed that, had his diplomatic career not been blighted by early neglect, he might have risen t... ...own hands and present a young protege to the Rectory, on which subject the diplomatic Pitt said nothing. Mrs. Bute’s intentions with regard to Miss Be... ... and it was lucky for her that Lady Southdown’s multifarious business, her conferences with min- isters, and her correspondence with all the missionar... ... the news of the Battle of Austerlitz sent all the English diplomatists in Germany to the right about) that I first saw Colonel Dobbin and his party. ... ...f to Chutney at the Club to say that the Service was highly appreciated in Germany, that he was going to show his friend, the Count de Schlusselback, ...
...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. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...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... ...… . even if they weren’t worth fulfilling. Shopping was a delight of brisk conferences. The very merchants whose droning she found the dullest at the ... ...ix) was the social cornice of Gopher Prairie. It was the country club, the diplomatic set, the St. Cecilia, the Ritz oval room, the Club de Vingt. To ... ...t this insignificance echoed cellar-plots and cabi- net meetings and labor conferences in Persia and Prussia, Rome and Boston, and the orators who dee... ...o said, “I can’t figure it out. I’m opposed to wars, but still, seems like Germany has got to be licked because them Junkers stands in the way of prog... ...sh soldiers fighting with us in France in one month now. Some surprise for Germany, all right! “How about the prospects for revolution in Germany?” re... ...te the hardest thing to endure in the month of wait- ing was the series of conferences between Kennicott and Uncle Whittier in regard to heating the g...
...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...
...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. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylv... ...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... ...e goes with curiosity to call upon remarkable persons. He visited mines in Germany, in Spain, in Cornwall. Abandoned workings had for him strong fasci... ...uropean bedecking, awaiting the homage of worshippers. Don Jose approached diplomatically this weird and inscrutable portent, and Mrs. Gould turned he... ...e ignoble traffic of buying and selling victories. A member of the foreign diplomatic body in Sta. Marta had once passed a judgment upon him: “Barrios... ...urging me to attempt what no doubt his soul, wrapped up in the sanctity of diplomatic treaties and solemn declarations, must have abhorred. I had ex- ... ...opinion was that war should be de- clared at once against France, England, Germany, and 336 Nostromo the United States, who, by introducing railways,... ...ome secret power; some mysterious means to keep up his influence. He holds conferences with the Arch- bishop, as in those old days which you and I rem...
...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 Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge, 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... ...me to say,’ he began, standing by the mantel-shelf, as was his wont in his conferences with Mrs. Edmonstone; and he repeated the same in substance as ... ...ing to let the marriage take place whenever he pleased. There were various conferences in the dressing-room, and Guy and Amy both had burning faces wh... ...either in May or June; but he intended, himself, to travel on foot through Germany and Italy, and would write again before quitting Ireland. ‘So,’ sai... ...he cause; and Charlotte, finding her own domain dark and cold, and private conferences going on in Amabel’s apart- ment and the dressing-room, was fai... ...Mediterranean without his pius Aeneas, and so has left the army, and got a diplomatic appointment somewhere in Germany. Lord Kilcoran has asked him to... ...s, and so has left the army, and got a diplomatic appointment somewhere in Germany. Lord Kilcoran has asked him to come and stay here, and Mabel and I...
...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...ded by the feeling that all things moved to- wards a day of reckoning with Germany, and I was largely instrumental in keeping up the suggestion that I... ...rth- less and, so habitually as to be now almost unconsciously, dishonest. Germany is beating England in every matter upon 248 The New Machiavelli wh... ...of our imperial endurance—is one of underbred aggression in prosperity and diplomatic compro- mise in moments of danger; we bully haughtily where we c... ...preventive. The sum total of our policy is to arrest any dis- cussion, any conferences that would enable the Indians to work out a tolerable scheme of... ...pire; I am less and less inclined to see in either India 251 H G Wells or Germany the probability of an abrupt truncation of those slow intellectual ...
...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ...ded state-of-the-art video cameras obtained from China and from dealers in Germany.The casing team also reconnoitered targets in Djibouti. 84 As early... ... official was the logical person to represent U.S. interests. Keeping U.S. diplomatic efforts against terrorism coherent was a recurring challenge. In... ...de or the paper at all. 61 4.3 DIPLOMACY After the August missile strikes, diplomatic options to press the Taliban seemed no more promising than milit... ...ith Mullah Omar denouncing the Saudi government. Riyadh then suspended its diplomatic rela- tions with the Taliban regime. (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, an... ...mergencies, and they fall into two categories:“event” and “threat. ” Event conferences seek to gather infor- mation. If the situation escalates, a thr... ...telligence Center (NMJIC) briefing (July 21, 2003). For the content of the conferences on 9/11, see DOD transcript,Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 1...
... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...
...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. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ...e sea. He had been very ill and Mrs. Crane was taking him to some place in Germany, but one glance at that wasted face was enough to tell me that it w... ...he tempera- ment of the two partners in iniquity—whatever the iniquity is. Germany has been the evil counsellor of Russia on all the questions of her ... ... part of her substance. Pan-Germanism is by no means a shape of mists, and Germany is anything but a neant where thought and effort are likely to lose... ...ve been extremely gratifying to his natural tastes. As to Austria, it shed diplomatic tears over the transaction. They cannot be called crocodile tear... ...ined robes in the solemn atmosphere of Council-rooms, where congresses and conferences sit with closed windows. It would not be exorcised by the bruta... ...ile they watched Old Eu- rope stage-managing fussily by means of notes and conferences, the prophetic reproduction of its await- ing fate. It was wond...
......................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 ..................................................................
...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 Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Pre... ...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... ...consequence. To the upper classes of society these passages in life, these diplomatic meetings and discussions are like the necessary cesspools where ... ...ng in a low tone with Solonet. Natalie, kept out- side of these mysterious conferences, was playing with a screen. Embarrassed by her position, she wa... ... of State and privy-coun- cillor; Martial de la Roche-Hugon is minister to Germany and peer of France; Serisy leads the Council of State, to which he ...
...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...
...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. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...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... ...s officially from the Russian Government, some in a financial, others in a diplomatic character. Amongst these last (indeed at the head of them) was a... ...enefit of man’s guardianship and care, are believed throughout England and Germany to go down upon their knees at one particular moment of Christ- mas... ...y of temper in his royal master which threat- ened to consume himself; the diplomatic address with which he transmuted suddenly a task so delicate as ... ...of ceremonies, and the elaborate forms of intercourse with enemies through conferences, armistices, treaties of peace, &c., having tamed the savagery ... ...licy under which they moved, that he talked rather with the authority of a diplomatic person who had access to cabinet intelligence, than as a simple ... ... the Brunonian Theory. No sooner had Weikard adopted* and made it known in Germany, than Kant became familiar with it. He considered it not only as a ...
...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...y the Forty ninth Congress, in 1886, and its application was extended to our diplomatic re lations by the unanimous concurrence of the Senate and Hou... ...ight and her defense of her interest by anything but mere verbal protest and diplomatic note. For these reasons the expenses of the army and navy and ... ... our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulation secured by diplomatic negotiation. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize... ...ice Edward White on the East Portico of the Capitol. The specter of war with Germany hung over the events surrounding the inauguration. A Senate filib... ...ence, there is much to be hoped for in international relations from frequent conferences and consultations. We have before us the beneficial results o... ...ld War, seek to restore their means of liveli hood. In the heart of Europe, Germany still stands tragi cally divided. So is the whole continent divi...
...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 French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ...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... ...rness and thinness, ends in foul thick confusion—of Presidency, Mayorship, diplomatic Officiality, rabid Triviality, and the throat of everlasting Dar... ...d-of-Peace’ message is not yet answered. The Three Orders shall again have conferences; under this Pa- triot Minister of theirs, somewhat may be heale... ...pro- posals, from such a tried friend, they answer with a stare. The tardy conferences speedily break up; the Third Estate, now ready and resolute, th... ...ns furnished. He main- tains, as yet, with his Cousin Lafayette, some thin diplomatic correspondence, by letter and messenger; chivalrous constitu- ti... ...es, ‘Princes Possessiones’ is bandied from Court to Court; covers acres of diplomatic paper at this day: a weariness to the world. Kaunitz argues from... ...ing at Liege; ‘three thousand horses’ ambling hitherward from the Fairs of Germany: Cavalry enrolling; likewise Foot-soldiers, ‘in blue coat, red wais...
............................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 30 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................
...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. Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens, the Pennsy... ...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... ...that came to hand; and he fully understood the Department to be a politico-diplomatic hocus pocus piece of machinery for the assistance of the nobs in... ... to Lyons, which he had accepted; and from Lyons had been engaged to go to Germany, and in Germany had had an offer to go to St Petersburg, and there ... ...lling on Mr Meagles frequently with new additions to the list, and holding conferences with that gentle- man when he was not engaged (as he generally ...
...uous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished....
...rrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Little Dorrit?s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disapp...
...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. Little Dorrit Poverty by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...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... ...that came to hand; and he fully understood the Department to be a politico-diplomatic hocus pocus piece of machinery for the assistance of the nobs in... ... to Lyons, which he had accepted; and from Lyons had been engaged to go to Germany, and in Germany had had an offer to go to St Petersburg, and there ... ...lling on Mr Meagles frequently with new additions to the list, and holding conferences with that gentle- man when he was not engaged (as he generally ... ...ow.’ Edward Dorrit, Esquire, led a little apart by the button, as- sumed a diplomatic expression of countenance in replying, ‘Why you must confess, th... ...and his character as a father, equally demanded of him, he would not be so diplomatic as to conceal that the proposal remained in hopeful abeyance and... ...the horizon paying attentions like the well-known spectre of some place in Germany beginning with a B is a moral lesson inculcating that all the paths...
...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. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...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... ...n, not excepting even Monsieur Liret, the V audois clergyman who had given conferences on the history of the Waldenses. To reconstruct a past world, d... ...elivered this statement with as much careful precision as if he had been a diplomatic envoy whose words would be attended with results. Indeed, Mr. Ca... ...l as pleasantly in Rome—had thought his in- tention was to remain in South Germany—but begged him to come and dine to-morrow, when he could converse m... ... of the solar system. But he set about acting on his views in a thoroughly diplomatic manner, by stimulating suspicion. His side of Lowick was the mos...
... 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...