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...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 ...

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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 ................................................................. ...th their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the fork in the left. Indians may eat with their right hands, Chinese with chop sticks. No need f... ... me alter my lifestyle. If we look at the emerging economies of China and India as ‗selfs‘ we see that they don‘t want curbs on creating dirty energ... ...l revolution in the West that created the problem, so why should China and India be penalized for what the West has done? ―The easy path is t... ... and bow down to a vestige of the past whose principle duties are to open bridges and christen ships? ----―‖But they give a country a figurehea... ...ufacturing, and the expense of a standing army. Then you have highway and railway building and maintenance. But these can be paid by ‗use‘ taxes on ... ...nd a half necessary to repair the country‘s infrastructure, like roads and bridges, not to 382 mention needed expenses for education—The U.S. doe...

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...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now ...

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....................... 55 CHAPTER VII: THE DARK SQUARE GARDEN................................................................. 64 CHAPTER VIII: A PUNCH IN THE WIND........................................................................ 71 CHAPTER IX: LOW-WATER MARK ................................................................................... 84 CHAPTER X: THE WAR AGAIN...

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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. Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e pit-bank that evening. Aaron Sisson was the last man on the little black railway- line climbing the hill home from work. He was late because he had ... ... his state of semi- intoxication. “Is it pretty much the same out there in India?” he asked of the doctor, suddenly. The doctor started, and attended ... ...xclaimed Aaron Sisson. “How’s that?” “Why, because, in a way the people of India have an easier time even than the people of England. Because they hav... ...y the uneasy birds rustled. He watched the city and the winding river, the bridges, and the imminent Alps. He was on the south side. On the other side... ... was a start. At a bookstall he saw a man buy a big timetable with a large railway map in it. He immediately bought the same. Then he retired to a cor... ...ed, but the men began to knock at the door. They were all workmen, some in railway men’s caps, mostly in black felt hats. Some wore red cotton neck-ti...

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Excerpt: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

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...erne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania St... ...at the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the Daily T elegraph... ...ut that doesn’t take into account bad weather, contrary winds, shipwrecks, railway accidents, and so on.” “All included,” returned Phileas Fogg, conti... ...und the World in 80 Days showing the arrival and departure of steamers and railways. He took the carpet-bag, opened it, and slipped into it a goodly r... ...d beautiful fir and cedar groves, sacred gates of a singular architecture, bridges half hid in the midst of bamboos and reeds, temples shaded by immen... ...its smoke among the branches of the gi- gantic pines. There were few or no bridges or tunnels on the route. The railway turned around the sides of the... ...He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers with- out bridges, by putting on full steam; and many of those present avowed themsel...

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...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ...

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...ith the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little h...

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...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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 War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... itous fireworks for all the population of Bun Hill. And then had come the railway, and then villas and villas, and then the gas-works and the water-w... ...hed out of the Otterbourne and left it a dreadful ditch, and then a second railway station, Bun Hill South, and more houses and more, more shops, more... ... them anticipated a tithe of what the Brennan mono-rail would do for their railway securities and the face of the world. In a few, years they realised... ...ntral congestion had been relieved by tunnels under the sea, four colossal bridges over the east river, and a dozen mono-rail cables east and west, th... ...acteristic as- sembly from the adjacent streets. The footways of the great bridges over the East River were also closely packed and blocked. Everywher... ...posed to display the tall effects of buildings, the complex immensities of bridges and mono-railways and feats of engineering. London, Paris, Berlin, ...

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...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. A...

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... COMET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment 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. In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State... ...s the moonlit park—the bracken thickets rustling with startled deer—to the railway station at Checkshill and so to our dingy basement in Clayton, and ... ...scent mantles and the high cold glare of the electric arc. The interlacing railways lifted bright signal-boxes over their intersections, and signal st... ...der of things. At one time there were people dying of actual starvation in India, while men were burning unsalable wheat in America. It sounds like th... ...ll talking rather more freely with her father about the nationalization of railways, and my spirits and temper had so far mended at the realiza- tion ... ... viciousness, and the myriads of workers, noisily shod, streaming over the bridges in the gray cold light of dawn. Where is New York, the high city of...

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...is labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in hisPreface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a moment in the portico, hat in hand, and with an urbane demeanour....

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...nsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ...associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elec... ..., Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical ... ...; or rather a mere green water-lane, going on from village to village. Things had a settled look, as in places long lived in. Crop-headed chil- dren s... ... might have trepanned every one of their innocent heads, and found no more than so much coiled fishing-line below their skulls. I do not care for your... ...guards, portly cler- gymen, school-mistresses, gentlemen in grey tweed suits, and all the ruck and rabble of British touristry pour unhin- dered, MURR... ...istrust… . For the life of me I cannot understand it. I too have been knolled to church, and sat at good men’s feasts; but I bear no mark of it. I am ... ...om an iron letter-box. The inn to which we had been recommended at Quartes was full, or else the landlady did not like our looks. I ought to say, that... ... he was telling the perils of the deep. For it was no longer ago than last night, perhaps, that the receipts only amounted to a franc and a half, to c...

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...tion of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understood; you fall in with the land, and it is a matter of a quick eye and of a clear atmosphere....

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