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Robots of the world! The power of man has fallen! A new world has arisen: the Rule of the Robots! March!

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...Robots) by KAREL CAPEK Translated by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair Robots of the world! The power of man has fallen! A new world has arisen: the Rule... ...f the world! The power of man has fallen! A new world has arisen: the Rule of the Robots! March! CHARACTERS HARRY DOMIN SULLA MARIUS HELENA GLORY DR.... ...US FIRST ROBOT SECOND ROBOT THIRD ROBOT FOURTH ROBOT ACT I Central office of the factory of Rossum's Universal Robots. Entrance on the right. The wi... ...typing) Ready? SULLA Yes. DOMIN Another letter. "Friedrichswerks, Hamburg, Germany. We beg to acknowledge receipt of order for fifteen thousand Robot... ...Super-Robots. Regular giants they were. He tried to make them twelve feet tall. But you wouldn't believe what a failure they were. HELENA A failure?... ...t are you thinking of? It's only a little bigger and more solid than most ships. HELENA Yes, but with guns. DOMIN Oh, yes, with a few guns. You'll tr... ...got possession of all firearms, telegraphs, radio stations, railways, and ships. HALLEMEIER And don't forget that these rascals outnumbered us by at ... ...t explains the stoppage of all communication, and the arrival of no more ships. We knocked off work a few days ago, and we're just waiting to see w...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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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 .................................................... ...ible with liberty. Just question how has religion been useful to mankind? Tally the plusses and minuses and see which is the greater. The Palestinian... ...s you are truly sorry for those sins. But Wanda, on the plus side of your tally, we have the monuments to architecture, sculpture and music, some orp... ...tableau of an Inquisitional court with three white robed inquisitors with tall cone shaped hats, looking like Ku Klux Klansmen, sitting behind a tab... ...stige of the past whose principle duties are to open bridges and christen ships? ----―‖But they give a country a figurehead, like a flag, to gi... ...think they‘re worth more than murderers. Dolphins have been known to guide ships through unknown and dangerous waters and sometimes they save human l... ...case of a dolphin, I think it was in New Zealand. The dolphin would guide ships through the narrow inlet to the port. Someone took a shot at it so it...

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...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 C...

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... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ... are probably not consciously decided. But we hope that as we become more humanized we are more able to think for ourselves. ―Studies in German... ...exercises to teach basic computational skills, reading and writing. ―You can guess that developing children who are ‗truly human‘ is a tall o... ... inculcate into our young people. We don‘t want our young people to be held back because of what Adler called ‗organ inferiority‘. Being extra tall o... ... 39 —―It reminds me of a girl who was a couple of years behind me at U.C.L.A. She was tall, ... ... mentalities the kill ratios went up in World War II. Japanese as yellow bellied slant-eyed sadists who would dive their bombers into American ships ... ..., Moldavia. Russia isn‘t a whole lot better, in spite of its improved economics. In one major study of 178 countries, the USA came out 23 rd , German...

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...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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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... ...is was finished, he would read sentences with those vocabulary words like "A tall boy hits a ball in the air." "How many people are there?" "There... ..."Where is the ball?" "It is in the sky." "What does he look like?" "He is tall." The younger ones were so competitive with each other in the games ... ... will soon go live with your Aunt Peggy. Your father and I are going back to Germany. He is going to be stationed there again. Your father is a great... ... a great American patriot and has been asked to return to our motherland of Germany on important duties. You like your father's sister so much. Am I... ...g, aren't you -- I can't see how old your ghost friend is but he seems a bit tall too." As much as he tried to suppress it, his loathing of her was re... ...l Mexican ballads. In would come George Bush Jr. signs and the American navy ships. It is a choice like the people in Paris, France." Gabriele didn't ...

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... G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...ting: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only dis- tances, a remote horizon of... ...ther’s on a Sunday night, and I was free of his apart- ment. He was then a tall, flaxen-haired, gawky youth, with a disproportionate development of ne... ...ith a sort of feminine faintness with regard to the other and not quite so tall, may not have suggested the word or the thought of an assignation to m... ... the sky light. “Rum,” he said. “What is?” I asked. “Search-lights! Smoke! Ships going north! If it wasn’t for this blasted Milky Way gone green up th... ..., was larger and more impor- tant now, the green-shot sky and the fighting ships remoter. Some one darted out from the bungalow, with an interrupted q... ...ear silence heeded that—and not only this wrecked vessel, but all the dark ships lying about them, it seemed to their perplexed and startled minds mus...

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Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...gaging person- ality of the German Crown Prince, he represented great air- ships sailing over England (which country had been too un- enterprising to ... ...ria to send an impossible ultimatum to Serbia, and invaded Belgium because Germany was being attacked. The Krupp-Kaiser Empire, he assures us, is no e... ...larly since it neither abolishes nor has in it anything to shock fundamen- tally the princes, the diplomatists, the lawyers, the statesmen and politic... ...tain. With an urgent need of every ship for the national supplies, British ships, at the present moment of writing this, are still carrying cheap Amer... ...re of a Socialist State than it is to-day, but, as a mat- ter of fact, the ships, the railways, the coal and metal supply, the great metal industries,... ...ide of a woman’s disposi- tion, from beauty enthroned for love towards the tall, weather- hardened woman with a spear, loving her mate as her mate lov...

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...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considere...

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...lication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...well be from the north, it enters almost without dimi- nution; and the war-ships roll dizzily at their moorings, and along the fringing coral which fo... ...ance it is a full day in the harbour; he will then have seen all manner of ships, from men-of-war and deep-sea packets to the labour vessels of the Ge... ...ificent estates. In estimating the expense of maintenance quite a fleet of ships must be remembered, and a strong staff of captains, supercar- goes, o... ...til I can make a house for you.” Then he was taken ashore and brought to a tall, iron house. “This house is regulated,” said the governor; “there is n... ...ite kilt, shirt, and jacket, and with a conspicuous rosary about his neck. Tall but not heavy, with eager eyes and a marked ap- pearance of courage an... ... Point. Faleula is the next village to Malie; so that from the top of some tall palm in Malie it should be possible to descry against the eastern heav...

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... spots, rather pretty to look at, only they were dry and prickly. Nurse was frightened when she looked at them. She turned all the little sisters out of the night nursery, covered Lucy up close, and ordered her not to stir, certainly not to go into her bath. Then there was a whispering and a running about, and Lucy was half alarmed, but more pleased at being so important, ...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

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...le, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing ...

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...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...nd them, just as it roars now. But the sea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was... ...le, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8 in ships to these Islands, and found that they produced tin and lead; both ver... ...ry glad to grant peace easily, and to go away again with all his remaining ships and men. He had expected to find pearls in Britain, and he may have f... ...d asked of one of his captains. ‘The King of Norway,’ he replied. ‘He is a tall and stately king,’ said Harold, ‘but his end is near.’ He added, in a ... ...‘No more?’ returned the brother, with a smile. ‘The King of Norway being a tall man, perhaps a little more,’ replied the captain. ‘Ride back!’ said th... ...mans then came sweeping down the hill to attack the English. There was one tall Norman Knight who rode be fore the Norman army on a prancing horse, t...