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..._0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page i -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, August 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/... ... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...e: Comprised of at Least Jelly?, xi 1 Why Intellectual Property?, 1 2 Thomas Jefferson Writes a Letter, 17 3 The Second Enclosure Movement, 42 4 The I... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ...k instantly displayed, as well as a few details about it. And if you live in Washington, D.C., or near some other great library, you can go to a readi... ...perty rights is needed in order to fuel progress. Indeed, the post-Cold War “Washington consensus” is invoked to claim that the lesson of history itse... ...nmental welfare economics were important, but one cannot merely write A Sand County Almanac and hope the world will change. Environmen- talists piggyb... ...n existing sources of conservationist sentiment—love of nature, the national parks movement, hikers, campers, birdwatchers. They built coalitions betw...

...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...

...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... ... ethical for a patient than an ethicist from a Lutheran hospital or from a county medical center. When we cannot agree on truth, such as whether the ... ...s in your Constitution. Among your American deistic founders were: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Ethan Allen, Thomas Pa... ...s Madison, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Ethan Allen, Thomas Paine and George Washington. ―It is often difficult, if not impossible to separate... ...y the ‗freethinker‘ John Locke. John Adams, your second president, Thomas Jefferson, your third president, and James Madison, your fourth president, ... ...hat about recreation? Golf courses can pay for themselves. But what about parks and beaches? How much health care should the government provide? What... ...ven if taxed minimally, is often like trying to catch a greased pig at the county fair. -- ―But doctor, in spite of the loopholes for the ri... ...states. School classes got larger, school nurses and librarians were cut. Parks went without maintenance or were closed. Environmental programs we c...

...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 ...

... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern S... ...odern Sino-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gull... ... ethic. So we put our money into better education, better libraries, better parks and pools, and better musical productions of opera, musical theater... ... under the force of law, you get resistance—often major resistance. If the county gets permission to cut down a tree, given its environmental import... ... develop their policies based on the latest polls. The world needs vision. Jefferson had it. Lincoln had it. Wilson had it. But most of the recent v... ...aduates teaching Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of Washington. One teaches sport sociology at Penn State. One teaches early ...

...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 ...

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...ychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ... caused most of the terror and war in recent years. I get confused. The Almighty tells Osama bin Ladin to attack the infidels in New York and Washin... ...lingians are involved in our society. We are not indifferent. We take responsibility for the cleanliness of our country. We support the public parks ... ...seeking their roots. In Norway, with a population of only 4 million, people‘s holiday and formal wear is often the costume of their ancestral county... ... HAPPY ―Achieving universal happiness may be even more difficult than getting universal licensing for parents. You remember that your Thomas Jeffer... ... 136 —"It seems like the sages have said the same thing throughout history. One of my favorites is a quote from Thomas Jeffer...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF G...

...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...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... ...blishing the military foundation of these lib- erties, and of W ashington, Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton, all of whom were young men, in building u... ...queville could not foresee. Yet, in his commendation of the local town and county governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our... ...of the Atlantic informs us that these very tribes *We learn from President Jefferson’s “Notes upon Virginia,” p. 148, that among the Iroquois, when at... ...fifth of the produce of all gold and silver mines. See Marshall’s “Life of Washington,” vol. i. pp. 18-66. **A large portion of the adventurers, says ... ...he other hand, it may be said that the town- ship was organized before the county, the county before the State, the State before the Union. In New Eng... ...epted the task of composing the second constitution was small;* but George Washington was its President, and it con- tained the choicest talents and t... ...ended by much larger provisions for the amusements of the people in public parks, gardens, mu- seums, etc.; and the conduct of the people in these pla...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

...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: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by ... ...giment, and daughter of Fitzjurld Ber’sford de Burgo Malony of Glenmalony, County Kildare.” “And Muryan Squeer, Doblin,” said the lady with calm super... ...ets of passers-by, or riding a showy chestnut, and ogling broughams in the Parks—those who know the present Sir George Tufto would hardly recognise th... ...iven himself up entirely to his bad courses, to the great scan- dal of the county and the mute horror of his son. The ribbons in Miss Horrocks’s cap b... ... V anity Fair – V olume Two his little grandson Georgy to the neighbouring parks or Kensington Gardens, to see the soldiers or to feed the ducks. Geor... ...rackenbury when the latter nodded to her from her opera-box, and gave Mrs. Washington White the go-by in the Ring. “One must, my dear, show one is som... ... re- semblance to that of a venerable bell-wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and corresponde... ...und the piano. The women, her enemies, were left quite alone. And Mr. Paul Jefferson Jones thought he had made a conquest of Lady Gaunt by going up to...

...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... ...ary, a ten-foot room with a globe and the portraits of Whittier and Martha Washington, the student orchestra was playing “Carmen” and “Madame Butterfl... ...no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the county- seat, there was no court-house with its grounds. She glanced throug... ...Anoka.” “He did not!” roared Mr. Stowbody. “He settled first in Blue Earth County, him and his father!” (“What’s the point at issue?” Carol whispered ... ...ast? Him? Why, he comes from a farm right up north here, just this side of Jefferson. I know his father slightly—Adolph Valborg—typical cranky old Swe... ...rewd red eyes. “You de doc’s wife?” “Yes.” “I’m Adolph Valborg, from up by Jefferson. I’m Erik’s father.” “Oh!” He was a monkey-faced little man, and ... ...e graciousness in which she had had faith: white columns seen across leafy parks, spacious avenues, twisty alleys. Daily she passed a dark 437 Sincla... ...ir Lewis Western mining-settlement like a tumor. A booming semi- city with parks and clever architects, visited by famous pianists and unctuous lectur...

...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. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ...and in the morning is locked up in his study, or else rides to Mudbury, on county business, or to Squashmore, where he preaches, on Wednesdays and Fri... ...ad not the preference in the marriage, and the remaining bar- onets of the county were indignant at their comrade’s misalli- ance. Never mind the comm... ... the regiment which had helped to beat Montcalm in Canada, and to rout Mr. Washington on Long Island, would prove itself worthy of its historical repu... ...ets of passers-by, or riding a showy chestnut, and ogling broughams in the Parks—those who know the present Sir George Tufto would hardly recognise th... ...edley’s delight to take out his little grandson Georgy to the neighbouring parks or Kensington Gardens, to see the soldiers or to feed the ducks. Geor... ... re- semblance to that of a venerable bell-wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and corresponde... ...und the piano. The women, her enemies, were left quite alone. And Mr. Paul Jefferson Jones thought he had made a conquest of Lady Gaunt by going up to...

...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 electronic trans- mission, in any way. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvani... ...RATIVE HAPPINESS OF THE SLAVE-BOY AND THE SON OF A SLAVEHOLDER. In T albot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that count... ...ld a scene of almost Eden-like beauty. Outside this select inclosure, were parks, where as about the residences of the English nobil- ity—rabbits, dee... ... the community in which he lives. Mr. Gore lived in St. Michael’s, T albot county, when I left Maryland; if he is still alive he probably yet resides ... ...n me by my beloved mother was no less pretentious than “Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey.” I had, however, before leav- ing Maryland, dispensed wi... ...hat his justice cannot sleep forever.” Such is the warning voice of Thomas Jefferson; and every day’s experience since its utterance until now, confir... ... in the states, a pro-slavery, political board of health is established at Washington. Senators Hale, Chase, and Sumner are robbed of a part of their ...

...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 electronic trans- mission, in any way. Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, th... ...fash- 139 Charles Dickens ionable turn; being a regular frequenter of the Parks on Sundays, and knowing a great many carriages by sight. He spoke mys... ... Sewer’s exposure of the Wall Street Gang, and the Sewer’s exposure of the Washington Gang, and the Sewer’s exclusive account of a flagrant act of dis... ...hen the colonel proudly interposed and said: ‘My War Correspondent, sir—Mr Jefferson Brick!’ Martin could not help starting at this unexpected announc... ...ion to be frightened, for he (Brick) wouldn’t hurt him. ‘You have heard of Jefferson Brick, I see, sir,’ quoth the colonel, with a smile. ‘England has... ... by the popular party to the State House of New York, if not in the end to Washington itself. But as a man’s private prosperity does not always keep p... ...your royal residence. Being located in the immediate neighbourhood of your Parks, your Drives, your Triumphant Arches, your Opera, and your Royal Alma... ...and, as far as I know, Mrs Lupin is one of the worthiest creatures in this county), is hardly a home for Miss Graham.’ Martin mused a moment; and then...

...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is 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. Don Juan by George Byron , the Pennsylvania State University,... ... etiquette In kingly chambers or imperial halls, As also at the race and county balls. He stood like Atlas, with a world of words About his ... .... And such they are — and such they will be found: Not so Leonidas and Washington, Whose every battle field is holy ground, Which breathes... ...ed his Thebes, and died, Not leaving even his funeral expenses: George Washington had thanks and nought beside, Except the all cloudless glory... ... you wear your gown. And all our little feuds, at least all mine, Dear Jefferson, once my most redoubted foe (As far as rhyme and criticism co... ...nd the twilight hour In riding round those vegetable puncheons Call’d ‘Parks,’ where there is neither fruit nor flower Enough to gratify a bee... ... have their claret and Madeira To irrigate the dryness of decline; And county meetings, and the parliament, And debt, and what not, for their ...

...?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

...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. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania St... ... animal, and requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen.” —Thomas Jefferson’ s Whale Memorial to the French Minister in 1778. “And pray, sir,... ... of this, nowhere in all America will you find more patrician-like houses; parks and gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford. Whence came they? how ... ... an excellent one. It may seem ri- diculous, but it reminded me of General Washington’s head, as seen in the popular busts of him. It had the same lon... ...ing, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top. Queequeg was George Washington canni- balistically developed. Whilst I was thus closely scannin... ...d him off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a 396 Moby Dick fiddler’... ...White Whale; he’ll nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father, in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown over in it...

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...nd requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen.” Extracts 9 Thomas Jefferson’s Whale Memorial to the French minister in 1788. “And pray, sir, ... ...e of this, nowhere in all America will you find more patrician like houses; parks and gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford. Whence came they? how ... ... A Bosom Friend one. It may seem ridiculous, but it reminded me of General Washington’s head, as seen in the popular busts of him. It had the same lon... ...ing, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top. Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed. Whilst I was thus closely scanning ... ...d him off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a fiddler’s frolic on the ... ...White Whale; he’ll nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father, in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown over in it...

...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...

...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. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... .............................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON ................................................................... ...he banks of the Ohio, then inconsiderable, as one man. Their confidence in Washington scarcely restrained them from rushing to the seizure of New Orle... ...stom, the house of my excellent friend Mr. Plaistead, who keeps a hotel at Jefferson. “Sir,” said Mr. Plaistead, “I have every- thing here that a man ... ...bt much whether the people of New York will ever enjoy such verdure as our parks show. But there will be a pleasant assemblage of 241 Trollope walks ... ...en days, who has lived in the State for a year, and for four months in the county in which he votes. He can vote for all “officers that now are, 246 ... ...ed soil, even I, Englishman as I am, could not but think of Washington, of Jefferson, of Randolph, and of Madison. He should not have spoken of Virgin...

...ON ................................................................................................................... 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON ........................................................................................ 321...

...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... ...hamdi in 9D).Their aircraft pushed back from the gate just before 8:00. 10 Washington Dulles:American 77. Hundreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Du... ...west of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., five more men were preparing to take their early morning ... ...the event—a plane crash, fire, and partial building collapse—the Arlington County Fire Department served as incident com- mander. Different agencies h... ...ncident required a major rescue, fire, and medical response from Arlington County at the U.S. military’s headquarters—a facility under the control of ... ...s of calls from Marion Britton, Sept. 14, 2001, through Nov. 8, 2001; Lisa Jefferson interview (May 11, 2004); FBI report of investigation, interview ... ...n interview (May 11, 2004); FBI report of investigation, interview of Lisa Jefferson, Sept. 11, 2001; Richard Belme interview (Nov. 21, 2003). 82. See... ...report of investigation, interview of Mohdar Abdullah, July 23, 2002; 4377 Parks Avenue, San Diego record,“Application to Rent and Rental Deposit, ” S...

... 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...

...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. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...6 Lo, Victress on the Peaks...................336 Spirit Whose Work Is Done (Washington City, 1865).................................337 Adieu to a Sol... ...Grant.....................528 Red Jacket (From Aloft)....................528 Washington’s Monument February, 1885 ....................................... ... place a commander, swift, brave, immortal, And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery, And artillery men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.... ...mortal. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 409 THE O X T AMER In a far away northern county in the placid pastoral region, Lives my farmer friend, the theme o... ...friend, Whom a hundred oxen love there in his life on farms, In the northern county far, in the placid pastoral region. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 410 ... ...ows: These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships, Swell’d Washington’s, Jefferson’s, Lincoln’s sails. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 526 WITH H USKY ...

...gnomy 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 power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

...s 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 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................