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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... 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: ... ...original ecosystem we were genetically designed to function in…. That is; in Africa, where we originally came from, as naked apes who stood up and ... ...ht, smell and hearing, compete and survive during the seasonal drought of the African Veldt? The drying up of vegetation, waterholes, the migrating... ...riginal Runners. Who ran with the wild migrating herds in their yearly North- South migrations. As a result: they became slightly braver than Lion... ...was no such thing as a desert on Earth. The oldest desert is Namib Desert in Southern Africa: Reverse the name Namib Desert and you get Bi-man… yo... ...up countries into two segments… like Ireland? Or the American Civil War? Or South and North Korea? Or North and South Vietnam? How much sufferin... ...own passion and intensity. That is the reason viewers watch soap operas. As moths that are attracted to a flame, they also fear that flame since t...

...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...

...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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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...claims were made with regards to the 12th century advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Gre... ...mbangala in today's Angola and Congo, the Fang in Cameroon, the Mangbetu in Central Africa, the Ache in Paraguay, the Tonkawa in today's Texas, the ... ...s among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe in New Guinea (and many other... ...behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeastern Europe, feudalism endured well into the twentieth c... ... - even mutated ones - may fit different niches. In the 18th century most peppered moths in Britain were silvery gray, indistinguishable from liche... ...istinguishable from lichen-covered trunks of silver birches - their habitat. Darker moths were gobbled up by rapacious birds. Their mutated genes p...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...claims were made with regards to the 12th century advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Gre... ...mbangala in today's Angola and Congo, the Fang in Cameroon, the Mangbetu in Central Africa, the Ache in Paraguay, the Tonkawa in today's Texas, the ... ...s among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe in New Guinea (and many other... ...behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeastern Europe, feudalism endured well into the twentieth c... ... - even mutated ones - may fit different niches. In the 18th century most peppered moths in Britain were silvery gray, indistinguishable from liche... ...istinguishable from lichen-covered trunks of silver birches - their habitat. Darker moths were gobbled up by rapacious birds. Their mutated genes p...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ies Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... Charing Cross. They were to go to Rockett’s—the farm of one Cloke, in the southern counties—where, she assured them, they would meet the genuine Engl... ...ran and returned swiftly. “Our land marches with Pardons for a mile on the south,” she explained, waving the full cup, “but one has quite enough to do... ...reached across triple lawns, let them out before tea-time into the unkempt south side of their land. “I want your hand, please,” said Sophie as soon a... ...s next to do?” 54 Actions and Reactions “There’s a rumour of Death’s Head Moths about. Send a gang of youngsters to the Gate, and tell them to narrow... ... and had never thought to report her presence. She had always imagined Wax-moths to be like blood-red dragon-flies. “You had better fan out this corne... ...hers and maintain a vital inter- est in life. When the caterpillars became moths, they made friends with the ever-increasing Oddities—albinoes, mixed-...

...led it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted ...

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...d, and marked successively, in gilt China-ink, with the symbols of the Six southern Zodiacal Signs, be- ginning at Libra; in the inside of which seale... ..., wended through our Village: northwards, truly, in the dead of night; yet southwards visibly at eventide. Not till my eighth year did I reflect that ... ... you to the end of the World! “Why mention our Swallows, which, out of far Africa, as I learned, threading their way over seas and mountains, corporat... ...s from the North; Swiss Brokers, Italian Drovers, also topbooted, from the South; these with their subalterns in leather jerkins, leather skull-caps, ... ... Napoleon, have already been licked into that high-eddying Flame, and like moths consumed there. Still also have we to fear that incautious beards wil... ...turn the reader’s attention upon two small divisions of mankind, who, like moths, may be regarded as Cloth-animals, crea- tures that live, move and ha...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...y George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...d buried the wife whose behaviour vexed and dishonoured him: and it was in Africa! One would have to go to Africa to be free of the galling. But Dartr... ...ld like to think of the lengthened tide-flux of pedestrian citizens facing South-westward, as being drawn by devout attraction to our nourishing lumin... ...t the taint of gambling, a beneficent speculator. The Montgomery colony in South Af- rica, and his dealings with the natives in India, and his Rail- w... ...f- rica, and his dealings with the natives in India, and his Rail- ways in South America, his establishment of Insurance Of- fices, which were Savings... ...dnesday Concert evening, he kept away; and I am annoyed that I was glad.’ ‘Moths have to pass through showers, and keep their pretty patterns from dam... ... do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gold and diamonds: and a wife must sometimes listen, mastering ...

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

...sics Series Publication The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...of shells, the work of the steward’s love, when the time hung heavy in the southern seas, was quaint rather than ugly. Twisted shells with red lips li... ...The disease attacked other parts of the earth; Europe shrank, Asia shrank, Africa and America shrank, until it seemed doubtful whether the ship would ... .... Mr. Dalloway wished to look at certain guns, and was of opinion that the African coast is far more unsettled than people at home were inclined to be... ...oolf one to talk to, with the image of a vast machine, such as one sees at South Kensington, thumping, thumping, thumping. The attempt at communicatio... ...sation shifted its centre to a spot some four or five hundred miles to the south, and to-day Santa Marina is not much larger than it was three hundred... ... and the light that comes through a chink in the door. Then there were the moths—tiger moths, yellow moths, and horrid cockchafers. Louisa, my sister,...

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The Island Of

By: H. G. Wells

...au by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Page The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...then landed, but found nothing living thereon except certain curious white moths, some hogs and rabbits, and some rather peculiar rats. So that this n... ...called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken captain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that ... ...d in January, 1887, that the vessel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disap- peared from those seas (with a co... ..., curios? Does the captain think he is going to sell them somewhere in the South Seas?” “It looks like it, doesn’t it?” said Montgomery, and turned to... ...ic tide was running in with a gentle ripple. Presently the shore fell away southward, and the sun came round upon my right hand. Then suddenly, far in...

...ent aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3 S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha....

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The Research Magnificent

By: H. G. Wells

...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ou feel very little. The worst moment is be- fore things happen. Rowe, the African sportsman, told me that he had seen cowardice often enough in the p... ...bstantial clearness. The jungle that bordered the little encampment north, south, and west seemed to have crept a little nearer, enriched itself with ... ...anned, but he had many walks that bristled with impressions. Northward and southward, eastward and west- ward a dreaming young man could wander into a... ...ting up, and the clustering excitements of the late hours. And he went out southward and eastward into gaunt regions of reeking toil. As yet he knew n... ... and Benham’s brandy flask. It chanced to be a fine night, and, drawn like moths by the fire, four heavily-armed mountain- eers came out of nowhere, s... ...he elemental facts of a great social organization. It was having its South African war, its war at the other end of the earth, with a certain de- feat...

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

... This publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. 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... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...tion of Transylvania there are four dis tinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the D... ...n the castle. I went out on the stairs, and found a room looking towards the South. The view was magnificent, and from where I stood there was every... ...splayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of Europe, aye, and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought that the werewolves themselves had c... ... went up the stone stair to where I could look out towards the Chapter 3 42 South. There was some sense of freedom in the vast expanse, inaccessible ... ... shining. Great big fat ones with steel and sapphire on their wings. And big moths, in the night, with skull and cross bones on their backs.” Van He...

...Excerpt: Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible....

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...qual opportunity University. 1821 DON JUAN by George Byron DEDICATION BOB SOUTHEY! You ‘re a poet — Poet laureate, And representative of all th... ...to cry aloud for me. Europe has slaves, allies, kings, armies still, And Southey lives to sing them very ill. Byron’s Don Juan “Dedication” 5 ... ...l, and, forced to fly, Boabdil wept, of Donna Julia’s kin Some went to Africa, some stay’d in Spain, Her great great grandmamma chose to remai... ...ve in Milton, Dryden, Pope; Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey; Because the first is crazed beyond all hope, The second dr... ...the same Construction as your cures for hectic phthisics, Those bright moths fluttering round a dying flame; And this reflection brings me to ... ..., Thou hast struck one immense Colossus down, Thou moral Washington of Africa! But there ‘s another little thing, I own, Which you should ...

...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?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 t...

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Rhoda Fleming

By: George Meredith

...sics Series Publication Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...tinction survives there between Kentish women and women of Kent, as a true South-eastern dame will let you know, if it is her fortune to belong to tha... ...smelt of cream-bowls and wheaten loaves; the firs on the beacon-ridge, far south- ward, over Fenhurst and Helm villages, were transported nearer to se... ...as from an illumination of black flame. Boys adored Mrs. Lovell. These are moths. But more, the birds of air, nay, grave owls (who stand in this metap... ...hem into the track of the omnibuses run- ning toward Dahlia’s abode in the Southwest, and Mary Ann Wicklow, who had a burning desire in her bosom to b... ...o anything else? If they are taken poorly, I commend them to a sea-voyage— Africa, the North-West Passage, the source of the Nile. Men with their vani...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...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... ...escription of such a voyage. In the summer of 1815, after a tour along the southern coast of Devonshire and a visit to Clifton, he rented a house on B... ...ire, whose floods the wild deer circumvent In the scorched pastures of the South; so bent The armies of the leagued Kings around ... ...y, And bright Arcturus through yon pines is glowing, _195 And far o’er southern waves, immovably Belted Orion hangs—warm light is flowing From the... ... _65 And then into a cloud, such clouds as flit, Like splendour-winged moths about a taper, Round the red west when the sun dies in it: 441 Shell... ...g less exultingly Than birds rejoicing in the golden day, The Anarchies of Africa unleash Their tempest-winged cities of the sea, ... ...h other’s atmosphere, 593 Shelley Kindle invisibly—and as they glow, Like moths by light attracted and repelled, Oft to their bright destruction come...

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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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Women in Love

By: D. H. Lawrence

...ssics Series Publication Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...d ugly. But there were several negro statues, wood- 70 carvings from West Africa, strange and disturbing, the carved negroes looked almost like the f... ...ere the people go about naked.’ ‘Oh really!’ exclaimed Halliday. ‘Where?’ ‘South America—Amazon,’ said Gerald. ‘Oh but how perfectly splendid! It’s on... ...idly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. It was a terrible f... ...could never tell why Beldover was so utterly different from London and the south, why one’s whole feelings were differ- ent, why one seemed to live in... ...e walking westward,’ he said, ‘you forfeit the north- ern and eastward and southern direction. If you admit a unison, you forfeit all the possibilitie... ...rfect in their stillness. Yet she held back from them. It was like strange moths, very soft and silent, settling on her from the darkness of her soul....

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

... Series Publication Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ble ap- pearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, be- tween Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as ... ...lit the cur- rent into a broad-arrowhead, at the offsets from the piers of Southwark Bridge, at the paddles of the river steamboats as they beat the f... ... A Wice. T ools. Bones, warious. Skulls, warious. Pre- served Indian baby. African ditto. Bottled preparations, warious. Everything within reach of yo... ...o shakes a momentary flare out of the candle, as that the ba- bies—Hindoo, African, and British—the ‘human warious’, the French gentleman, the green g... ...oung person’s thoughts could try to scale the region bounded on the north, south, east, and west, by the plate; was a monstrous imagination which he w... ...ing-room, groups form as usual. Lightwood, Boots, and Brewer, flutter like moths around that yellow wax candle—guttering down, and with some hint of a...

...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridg...

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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

...s A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...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... ... the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sit... ... such frag- ments of his correspondence as have escaped the ravages of the moths (who, in right of their extensive absorption of the contents of deeds... ... traces of our doings here. Salisbury Cathe- dral from the north. From the south. From the east. From the west. From the south-east. From the nor’west... ...s in it, ‘this is your room, of which Mr Pinch here is the quiet sharer. A southern aspect; a charming prospect; Mr Pinch’s little library, you percei... ...u could have seen me, Mr Pinch, at the head of my regiment on the coast of Africa, charging in the form of a hollow square, with the women and childre... ...d observe the airiness of its construction, especially where it sweeps the southern angle of the building, you will feel with me—How do you do, sir? I...

...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...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ... 90 The God of His Fathers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 The League of the Old Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Bˆ atard . . . . .... ... . . . . 230 To Build a Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 South of the Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 The C... ...s draw closer, and experienced vague yearnings for the sunnier pastures of the Southland, where life promised something more than a barren struggle wi... ...cenes of his childhood. And most pathetic was the melody of his long forgotten Southern vernacular, as he raved of swimming holes and coon hunts and w... ... of the manzanita, poised the mariposa lilies, like so many flights of jewelled moths suddenly arrested and on the verge of trembling into flight again.... ...on the rim of an exca vation for all the world like the diamond pits of South Africa. But no diamond this that he gazed down upon. Rather was it a pe...

...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin 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 a... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...c Islands visited during the Voyage of the Beagle;’ and on the ‘Geology of South America.’ The sixth volume of the ‘Geological Transactions’ con- tain... ...tains two papers of mine on the Erratic Boulders and Volcanic Phenomena of South America. Messrs. Waterhouse, Walker, Newman, and White, have publishe... ... and I trust that many others will here- after follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will be given by Dr. J. Hooker, in his great work... ...brating so rapidly as to be scarcely visible, I was reminded of the sphinx moths: their movements and habits are indeed in many respects very similar.... ... than any other race of animals. I allude only to the butterflies; for the moths, contrary to what might have been ex- pected from the rankness of the... ... similar to, but not identical with, the common English Colias edusa. Some moths and hymenoptera accompanied the but- terflies; and a fine beetle (Cal...

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On the Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabit- ants of South America, and in the geological rela- tions of the present to the past... ... they formerly did so, as is attested by passages in Pliny. The savages in South Africa match their draught cattle by colour, as do some of the Esquim... ...statements of the rate of increase of slow-breed- ing cattle and horses in South America, and latterly in Australia, had not been well authenticated, ... ...t a seed. Many of our orchidaceous plants absolutely require the visits of moths to remove their pollen-masses and thus to fertilise them. I have, als... ... whether it be that of a mammal, bird, or reptile. The vermiform larvae of moths, flies, beetles, &c., resemble each other much more closely than do ... ...is latter fact is well exemplified in the state of the wings of the female moths in certain groups. Rudimentary organs may be utterly aborted; and thi...

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Puck of Pooks Hill

By: Rudyard Kipling

... Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...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... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ill, to look over the Pevensey Levels and the Chan- nel and half the naked South Downs. ‘By Oak, Ash, and Thorn!’ he cried, still laughing. ‘If this h... ...torm, on Pevensey Level.’ ‘Pevensey? Over the hill, you mean?’ Dan pointed south. ‘Yes; but it was all marsh in those days, right up to Horsebridge an... ...d of mouth— Good news for cattle and corn— Now is the Sun come up from the South, With Oak and Ash and Thorn! Sing Oak and Ash and Thorn, good Sirs (A... ... us that his father Guthrum had once in his life rowed along the shores of Africa to a land where naked men sold gold for iron and beads. There had he... ...s, for the wind failed between the Island of the Mountain and the shore of Africa, which is east of it. That shore is sandy, and we rowed along it wit... ...e thorn in the foot! Mistletoe killing an oak— Rats gnawing cables in two— Moths making holes in a cloak— How they must love what they do! Yes—and we ...

Excerpt: Puck of Pook?s Hill by Rudyard Kipling.

...Contents Puck of Pook?s Hill ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 WELAND?S SWORD.......

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the main revetments—the huge stone- faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river—and permitted himself to ... ...g no more than pale yellow in the sun’s glare. East and west and north and south the construction-trains rattled and shrieked up and down the embankme... ...at One and His Prophet also.” “Even so, father,” said Hanuman. “And to the South I go who am the oldest of the Gods as men know the Gods, and presentl... ...gs, and she perished in this manner. Deep peace brooded over Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australasia, and Polynesia. The Powers dealt together more... ...the crew of the Haliotis. Deep peace continued to brood over Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australasia, and Polynesia. 106 Rudyard Kipling * * ... ...he recovered his senses); and his broken headlight half full of half-burnt moths. His ten- der had thrown coal all over him, and he looked like a dis-...

...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease,...

.................... 34 THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF......................................................................................... 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ........................................................................................

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...OMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SORROWS OF TEUFELSDR ¨ OCKH . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER VII — THE EVERLASTING NO... ...d, and marked successively, in gilt China ink, with the sym bols of the Six southern Zodiacal Signs, beginning at Libra; in the inside of which seale... ...ge, wended through our Village: northwards, truly, in the dead of night; yet southwards visibly at eventide. Not till my eighth year did I reflect that... ...ad you to the end of the World! “Why mention our Swallows, which, out of far Africa, as I learned, threading their way over seas and mountains, corpor... ...ers from the North; Swiss Brokers, Italian Drovers, also topbooted, from the South; these with their subalterns in leather jerkins, leather skull caps... ... a Napoleon, have already been licked into that high eddying Flame, and like moths consumed there. Still also have we to fear that incautious beards w... ...t turn the reader’s attention upon two small divisions of mankind, who, like moths, may be regarded as Cloth animals, creatures that live, move and ha...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ...ten, in regard to French patois— leaving out of count the languages of the South—that the words or expressions that are no longer in use to-day are bu... ...tidoted Fanfreluches, or a Galimatia of extravagant conceits. The rats and moths, or (that I may not lie) other wicked beasts, had nibbled off the beg... ...ame season Fayoles, the fourth King of Numidia, sent out of the country of Africa to Grangousier the most hideously great mare that ever was seen, and... ...all the diversity of precious stones that are to be seen in the orient and south parts of the world. Let nothing of all these be hidden from thee. The... ...ting hand, it is all one to me, so that the headband of the book breed not moths or worms in it. And put the case that, at the coupling together of th... ...know not what of the west and occident of my time, and signifieth that the south and meridian of mine age is past. But what then, my gentle companion?...

...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative

By: George Meredith

...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... more mouth 30 The Egoist than head, with dusty, dark-spotted wings, like moths; all very circumstantial. Still, in spite of his tea at the farm, and... ...e coldness, and gave him the distinction of a far-seen solitary iceberg in Southern waters. The popular notion of hereditary titled aristocracy resemb... ...ted Captain Patterne to visit me: just pre- vious to his departure for the African Coast, where Govern- ment despatches Marines when there is no other... ...up to some of the lesser heights of Switzerland and Styria, and settled in South Tyrol, the young lady pre- ferring this district for the strenuous ex... ...ried to fit the proposition to Clara’s character. He had discerned nothing southern in her. Latterly, with the blushing Day in prospect, she had 137 ... ...back fresh to their own characters, instead of giving themselves a dose of Africa without a savage to diversify it: an impression they never get over,...

...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the strug...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...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... ...r brown mushroom hat Caroline was struck with her beauty, fair, but with a southern richness of bloom and glow—the carnation cheek of a depth of tint ... ...en,” said Mary, looking at her brother’s much improved appearance; “but—” “Moths and candles to wit,” he returned; “but don’ t be afraid, I attract no... ...y now, And faint for lack of food. Cold! cold! there is no sun in heaven. —Southey. VERY MERRY was the party which arrived at the roughly-built hotel ... ...og is coming up; but I’ve got my little compass here, and if I keep to the south-west, and down, I must strike the lake somewhere. Goodbye, Jock.” He ... ...e the exquisite fresh green provoked compari- 311 Yonge sons with parched Africa. Bobus was standing on the steps to receive them, and when they had ...

...their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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The Noble Qur'An

By: Rev. J. M. Rodwell

.... Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Margoliouth is a publication of the Penn- sylvania 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... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ly in Hej. 10, the submission of Hadramont, Yemen, the greater part of the southern and eastern provinces of Arabia–and the final sol- emn pilgrimage ... ..., they had conquered Persia in the seventh century, the northern coasts of Africa, and a large portion of Spain in the eighth, the Punjaub and nearly ... ...hall teach thee what the Blow is? The Day when men shall be like scattered moths, And the mountains shall be like flocks of carded wool, Then as to hi... ... the path of David, the father of the craft. Burton. First Footsteps in E. Africa, p. 33. The numerous wars in which David was engaged, may have given... ...e impoverished the tribes situated on the line of the old mercantile route southward. Mecca, how- ever, was still to a certain extent prosperous. Comp... ...n the direct line of traffic between the countries to the north and to the south, and both probably disappeared with its cessation, when the Arabs wer...

...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new ph...

...1 96 Thick Blood or Clots of Blood 2 74 The Enwrapped 3 73 The Enfolded 4 93 The Brightness 5 94 The Opening 6 113 The Daybreak 7 114 Men 8 1 Sura I. 9 109 Unbelievers 10 112 The Unity...

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