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... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ...ie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ......................................... ...rly 50 countries that are reducing their native populations. Countries like Japan, Germany, Italy and South Korea would lose population if they didn... ... has its special problems. The 40s required the surrender of the German and Japanese aggressors. The 50s were quiet, but the times pushed the produc... ...d be kept in lowly places has given way to the reality of Jews, Chinese and Japanese outperforming their Anglo-Christian counterparts particularly i... ... avoid. “Hitler did some good things and some bad things according to historians. Pope John Paul did some good things and some bad things acco...

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... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Provin... ...-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-2-5 3 able of Contents GLOBAL POLICIES ................................................ ...they have in the continental Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and Korea. Finally over lunch I had a chance to make some comm... ...ugh. If you think that this only 10 happens in the West, just check out Japan‘s generosity to dairy farmers. It‘s nearly three times as generous ... ...s all of the same negative things that the advanced economies of the U.S., Japan, Korea and Europe do. When the Chinese people have as many cars per ... ... of the mating call of the Jamaican fruit fly.‖ --―I understand that historians are now rating Bush as the worst of all your presidents and Re...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...ether it is the Cosa Nostra in the U.S., the mafia in Italy, the yakuza in Japan, or the Latin American drug lords--criminals in business are the rul... ...ry with 85% non- believers. Vietnam was next, followed by Denmark, Norway, Japan, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, South Korea and Estonia, with ... ...ir more recent Communist governments and their atheistic education. But in Japan, South Korea and Europe it is far more likely that their more extens... ...s and eye witness accounts. But historical evidence is often politicized. Historians can pick and choose what they will examine and report on. Were ... ...y of the past confirming that events never repeat themselves? ―Real historians want the truth, although some rewrite history to back up a polit... ...ious to injuries except for his heel? God can‘t change the past, but many historians do, especially if they are justifying for a cause that is sacred...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ...e -- How they were built and propelled -- The fight for Zipangu -- Invasion of Japan -- Houses covered with gold -- A story of wealth that exceeded th... ...f the Cathayans........................................... 127 Idolatry of the Japanese................................................ 129 Fleet of t... ...st they had sailed along the entire coast of China, discovering the Islands of Japan, the East Indies, and directly after, making a passage through th... ...ning each vessel brought a rich cargo of gold, silver, and precious wood. Many historians maintain that this fleet sailed to Peru where the riches bro... ...owever, is scarcely to be credited, although there is considerable proof which historians cannot wholly ignore that both the Irish and the Welsh made ... ...by the hostile savages who were known to occupy the country north of him. Many historians maintain that the island or country upon which Zichmni thus ...

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...in accordance with the paradoxism and even to confirm it, the way the mathematician writer Florentin Smarandache is received is ... paradoxical. Tens of books, studies and articles have already been written about both, scientist and smarandachism - the name given to the movement by Ion Rotaru and Titu Popescu. However the paradoxist number 1 in the world is less known in h...

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...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. T... ...Moses 15 in the foundation of Hebrew religious culture, and some religious historians feel that the limited historical material resulting from the Egy... ...gines and most other indigenous groups are fitted by sociologists and many historians of religion. In the chapters which follow, we will see the inter... ...20-540 BC) who is titled The Buddha (Sanskrit for “The Awakened”). 19 Most historians place Gautama in the sixth century BC in India. There are no wri... ...he Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, particularly popular in Japan. Nevertheless be- lief in permanent, ultimate individuality such as i... ...hich distinguish Buddhism from all other religions. 42 Zen has its home in Japan, although originally it came from India via China. Among the streams ... ...sm originated and spread, and the cultural underlay of Indian, Chinese and Japanese Buddhism which gave rise to Zen. There is a definite tendency in b...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...sual experiences of their petty and selfish lives to compare others with. In Japan women who left their children locked up in hot cars were rarely acc... ...ind that which is everlasting within the brevity of a human's lifespan); and historians of recorded cultures thread together implication, meaning, and... ...saluted the new communism in her heart; snickered inside at the thought that Japan had out-capitalized the West the way it tried to out-imperialize th... ...for this international gourmet supermarket which would soon be replicated in Japan. He showed her through the aisles and pointed out every item on th...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ... , Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan, August 3d, 1833. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS WIDOW. ... ...nt craft in your day, for aught I know; — square toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter box galliots, and what not; but take my word for it,... ...vener able bows looked bearded. Her masts — cut somewhere on the coast of Japan, where her original ones were lost overboard in a gale — her masts st... ...ing the cetacea into groups and families. Utter confusion exists among the historians of this animal” (sperm whale), says Surgeon Beale, A. D. 1839. “... ...ohn Leo) is said to have layn there a hundred Years before I saw it. Their Historians affirm, that a Prophet who prophesy’d of Mahomet, came from this ...

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...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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...TITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..........................................................

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Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

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Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One.

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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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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ... Poetry in its most compre- hensive sense; and have read the Poets and the Historians and the Metaphysicians (In this sense there may be such a thing ... ... _685 Of human life, and wept unwilling tears. Feeble historians of its shame and glory, False disputants on all its hopes and fe... ...of criticism, the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges, and their historians. I remain, dear T om, yours sincerely, Miching Mallecho. Decembe... ... at such a stagnant and miserable state of social institution as China and Japan possess. The human form and the human mind attained to a per- fection...

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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...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...and the whole thing was drudgery tn me. I had no ap- preciation, again, of Historians, or historians; only thought Thucydides difficult and Herodotus ... ... read about. What an age it is! America, how is that to end? India, China, Japan, Africa! I have Jowett’s books and “Essays and Reviews.” How much I s... ...hen of Melanesia. And so one’s thoughts float out to India, and China, and Japan, and Africa, and the islands of the sea, and the very vastness of the... ...reckless misdoings of unscrupulous sailors and colonists. The West Indies, Japan, America, all have the same shameful tale to tell—what wonder if the ...

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...ew hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implement...

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...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...wn of an old English country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much... ...ossibly. But yours seem to me very clear and very good.” “If I were to go to Japan next winter you would laugh at me,” she went on. Osmond gave a smil... ...such an idea absurd.” CHAPTER 29 255 “I would give my little finger to go to Japan; it’s one of the countries I want most to see. Can’t you believe th... ... over muffled in a mantle of state and dragging a train that it took pages or historians to hold up—that this felicity was coming to an end. That most ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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