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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 .................................................... ...s should we saddle our children? Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the wolf who ate Red Riding Hood‘s grandmother, the witch of Hansel... ...tions of the real world with the 106 parentally provided mythology of fairy tales and the community imposed basic assumptions— whether they be of... ...ctor employees increase government inflow from their activities like toll collectors, parking ticket givers, and other tax collectors. ―We h... ... the society. Meter maids issuing vehicle parking citations, toll and tax collectors, and county appraisers are such people. Some may make society r... ...ctors or nurses, grave diggers or street cleaners—and certainly not trash collectors! But whether the object of religious spending is pro-society or... ...nvince us of the existence of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy. By the time we are 10 we have lost our belief in the Easter bunny an...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...l these elements together and you have the creation of cultures-myths-legends-fairy tales-religion-tradition-custom-ritual-imagery-symbols-concepts. ... ...ply custom-fit a rationalized Myth, together with legends, sagas, folk-tales, fairytales, rituals, traditions, customs… which becomes your cultural i... ...irst years are filled with nothing but lies. The Easter bunny: Santa Claus. Fairy tales. Peter Pan. They told how wonderful and how beautiful the... ...atholic church in all of fucking Europe. Read how their hit men and gangster collectors and strong-arm men visited every fucking church that did not... ...ve to your obsessions. The same principle applies to the insane stupidity of collectors who spend and waste their live collecting specialized dead ... ...ense of ownership, the sense of selfishness greedily to your bosom. Becoming collectors. Obsessing over dead material objects. Obsessing over the...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...

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... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... six years I have made scarcely one a year. The bulk of the fifty or sixty tales from which this present three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from ... ...ot a professor at that time. Hapley in his retort,*** spoke of “blundering collectors,” and described, as if inadvertently, Pawkins’ revision as a “mi... ..., everyone was forbidden to listen to me, to hear a word about it. Even my fairytale books were taken away from me for a time—because I was too ‘imagi... ...rld beyond the mountains where men lived in sunlight seemed no more than a fairy tale he would some day pour into her ears. Very tentatively and timid...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is h...

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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... ...Wise and Mr. Robert A. 16 V olume One Potts—both generously communicative collectors—I am deeply indebted for the gift or loan of scarce volumes, as ... ... ocean’s western edge, When those far clouds of feathery purple gleam Like fairy lands girt by some heavenly sea: _205 Then h... ...to some tale _265 Of travellers, or of fairy land,— When the light from the wood-fire’s dying brand Flashed on the... ... bring them land and gold. Of devils and saints and all such gear, He made tales which whoso heard or read Would laugh till he were almost dead. ... ...: Its dungeons underground, and its thick towers _170 Never told tales; though they have heard and seen What might make dumb things speak.—W... ... _170 Clipped in a floating net, a love-sick Fairy Had woven from dew-beams while the moon yet slept; As bats at the wir...

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...ssics Series Publication Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...m to see myself stretching out my hands for another present from the great Fairy Tree whose boughs are still hung with enchanting toys, though they ar... ...having deceived him throughout the visit, fed him with pleasant old wives’ tales, let him see her as a child playing in a meadow, shared her youth wit... ...evious anger. The idea came to her that they were like the children in the fairy tale who were lost in a wood, and with this in her mind she noticed t... ...e dull old letters, which would have turned the heads of the most sober of collectors, were laid upon a table, and, after a moment’s pause, Cassandra,... ... great sea was round us. It was the voyage for ever and ever.” The ancient fairy-tale fell roundly and harmoniously upon Katharine’s ears. Yes, there ...

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...resented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty millions of reflective, serious and cultivated men, invites us to study him; and to determine for ourselves, whether and how far such influence h...

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...gnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...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... ...m Janet, with “Babie, Babie.” “It’ s Jock, Mother Carey! He will come into Fairyland too soon.” “What’s the last news from Fairyland, Babie?” asked th... ... “Mother Carey! Oh, mother! mammie, dear! come and see!” “Come—where?” “To fairy-land. Get her bonnet, Babie.” “Out of doors, you boy? just look there... ...d Babie sang rapturously— “Come along, Mother Carey, Come along to land of fairy;” an invocation to which, sooth to say, she had become so much accust... ...wer; and the whole troop moved up the slope to go home by the lanes. “What collectors you are!” said Mr. Ogilvie. “For the museum,” answered Armine, e... ...gain, and why, 299 Yonge Mr. Ogilvie. Do you feel as if you had got into ‘Tales of the Alhambra,’ or into the ‘T empest’?” “I hope not to continue in... ...- guished among the brilliant character-groups which represented old fairy tales and nursery rhymes. There were ‘The White Cat and her Prince,’ ‘Puss-...

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