... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ... Pg 364 One Basic Effect of Accumulation: Antagonism and Competition Pg 366 Sports Pg 401 Happiness Pg 402 Law Pg 413 Logic and Legality Pg ... ...40 The Vicious Cycles of Civilized Ease and Hardship Pg 747 Play and Sports Pg 757 Toys Pg 757 Humor Pg 771 Failure and Success Pg 771... ...-boats; explain how the first modern humans managed to migrate to the Pacific islands and Australia 75,000 years ago. Using the bones and skins of t... ...e is jealously guarded and goes to the grave with them. To be later put into museums. And centuries later…marveled at… as examples of lost artisans... ...fe-energy poured into making any artefact, the more it is revered and put into museums. That is also why we obsess and revere old, dead artefacts th... ...ca: stolen from the German Boers, and the Dutch. The white supremacist nation Rhodesia; created out of the pure greed of one man: Cecil Rhodes…, whi... ...ar history of tectonic plate migration and activity… Just so the residents of Rhode Island would know where the earth they own… originally came from...

...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? Th...

...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 transmis sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from N... ...ll that pleasant afternoon, while the children were pursuing their various sports far off or near at hand, Sometimes you would have said, “Grandfather... ...t him the merri est of them all. At last the children grew weary of their sports. because a summer afternoon is like a long lifetime to the young. So... ... some persons who had been persecuted in Massachusetts went to the Isle of Rhodes, since called Rhode Island, and settled there. About this time, also... ...persecuted in Massachusetts went to the Isle of Rhodes, since called Rhode Island, and settled there. About this time, also, many settlers had gone to... ...m England, who took possession of the 39 Hawthorne old fortress on Castle Island and of the fortification on Fort Hill. Sometimes it was rumored that... ...r’s younger days there used to be a wax figure of him in one of the Boston museums, representing a solemn, dark visaged person, in a minister’s black ... ... great renown at Saratoga, and lost it again at Camden. General Greene, of Rhode Island, was likewise at the council. Washington soon discovered him t...

...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

...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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne, the Penn... ... of subsis- tence. For a long time to come the natives of that interesting island, who cleave to their desert home with all that amor patriae which is... ...l or two to receive a com- munication from a leading man of science in the island, which may furnish matter for additional information in a future edi... ...left him standing upon two boulders on the shore just like the colossus of Rhodes. “Confounded brute!” cried the unhorsed horseman, sud- denly degrade... ...s so-called extinct volcano won’t take a fancy in his old age to begin his sports again! I abstained from communicating these fears to Professor Liede... ... the possession of which is a matter of rivalry and contention between the museums of great cities. A thousand Cuviers could never have reconstructed ...

...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. A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...erve the purpose of a modern Utopia. Time was when a mountain valley or an island seemed to promise sufficient isolation for a polity to maintain itse... ...e, the Moon. It is a planet like our planet, the same continents, the same islands, the same oceans and seas, another Fuji- Yama is beautiful there do... ...t forth. Here will be stupen- dous libraries, and a mighty organisation of museums. About these centres will cluster a great swarm of people, and clos... ...games in public or to watch them being played. Certain dangerous and hardy sports and exer- cises are prescribed for him, but not competitive sports b... ... intelligence. Our Founders made no peace with this organisation of public sports. They did not spend their lives to secure for all men and women on t... ...nity about Welt-Politik, you assume the best race is the “Teutonic”; Cecil Rhodes affected that triumph of creative imagination, the “Anglo- Saxon rac...

...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...a number of blind boys were swinging, and climbing, and engaged in various sports. They all clamoured, as we entered, to the assistant master, who acc... ... journeys, and making for the broad sea. Beyond, were shining heights, and islands in the glancing river, and a distance scarcely less blue and bright... ...y in New York, I paid a visit to the different public institutions on Long Island, or Rhode Island: I forget which. One of them is a Lunatic Asy lum.... ...rk, I paid a visit to the different public institutions on Long Island, or Rhode Island: I forget which. One of them is a Lunatic Asy lum. The buildi... ... accommodated, as the spectators usually are, in one of those locomo tive museums of penny wonders; and the ladies being partitioned off by a red cur...

...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ..................................................................... 122 THE ISLAND OF THE FA Y ........................................................... ...s I have related, up hill and down hill until, at length, we arrived at an island, many hundreds of miles in cir- cumference, but which, nevertheless,... ...-sojouners for a week about six years ago, at Earl’s Hotel, in Providence, Rhode Island; and I presume that I conversed with him, at various times, fo... ...t ministerial power—or purchasing increase of nobility—or collecting large museums of virtu—or playing the munificent patron of letters, of science, o... ... “our set,” presumed to compete with me in the studies of the class—in the sports and broils of the play- ground—to refuse implicit belief in my asser...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

...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. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvan... ...ind in the quality of our manhood. In the men of means and leisure in this island there was neither enterprise enough, imagination enough, knowledge n... ...fleet, this is no longer, from the military point of view, an inaccessible island. So long as one had to consider the navigable balloon the aerial sid... ...ed seamen, adventurers like Clive, ec- centrics like Gordon, invalids like Rhodes. It has been made, in spite of authority and officialdom, as no othe... ...nd was invaded by the idea of classification, by memories of specimens and museums; and he initiated that accumulation of desiccated anthropological a... ...ttempt to eliminate the more conspicuous depar- tures as abnormalities, as sports, nature’s weak moments, and it was only with the establishment of Da...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...t’s all. Dear me suz, if they could think of the discovery of a forty acre island it’s more than I believe they could; and as for the whole conti ne... ... the rising sun, immea surably remote, astronomically remote, in Newport, Rhode Is land, Holy Land of High Society, ineffable Domain of the American... ...ve spectacle of warring passions. This blind fatal ity, that capriciously sports with the rules and lives of mor tals, tells me that the mountains w... ...lous and distinguished missionary. He converted sixteen thousand South Sea island ers, and taught them that a dog tooth necklace and a pair of specta... ...a treasure and the most perfect thing of its kind that the storehouses and museums of literature could show. He did not dare to say no to the dread po...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

...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. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...e debarka- tion, therefore, had to take place by small steamers, and at an island in the channel called Shell Island, the ships an- choring some miles... ...deck. After I had gone ashore, and had been on guard several days at Shell Island, quite six miles from the ship, I had oc- casion for some reason or ... ...f the sick lieutenant until thus relieved, and went on. I had never been a sportsman in my life; had scarcely ever gone in search of game, and rarely ... ... I had time to reflect upon the matter, I came to the conclusion that as a sportsman I was a failure, and went back to the house. Benjamin remained ou... ...it; I have no idea that they could all have been corralled in the State of Rhode Island, or Dela- ware, at one time. If they had been, they would have... ... offices are all located, the President resides, and much room is left for museums, re- ceptions, etc. This is the building generally designated as th...