Perfecting the Earth: A Piece of Possible HistoryUtopia Publishing Company, 1902 - 326 pages A futuristic utopian narrative beginning about 1913 through the 1940's of cities such as Fort Goodwill, Mount Ceres and New Utopia, somewhere near San Bernardino County, California, all of which have forestry, water, mining and power divisions described here. |
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Page 238 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 215 - And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation concerning the two brethren. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister; and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom...
Page 241 - Young, that there may be independent worlds, some possibly existing in different parts of space, but others perhaps pervading each other, unseen and unknown, in the same space.
Page 213 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Page 302 - He prayeth best, who loveth best all things, both great and small ; For the dear God that loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 228 - No form of belief is capable of functioning as a religion in the evolution of society which does not provide an ultra-rational sanction for social conduct in the individual. In other words : — A rational religion is a scientific impossibility, representing from the nature of the case an inherent contradiction of terms.
Page 325 - Then he turned to us, and added with a smile: I cannot make Crito believe that I am the same Socrates who have been talking and conducting the argument ; he fancies that I am the other Socrates whom he will soon see, a dead body — and he asks, How shall he bury me? And though...
Page 237 - ... giving out any more heat. Supposing, therefore, the earth remains in her present orbit about the sun, seeing that the sun must be cooled down at some time, we shall all be frozen out. On the other hand, we have no reason to believe that the orbit of the earth about the sun is an absolutely stable thing. It has been maintained for a long time that there is a certain resisting medium which the planets have to move through, and it may be argued from that, that in time all the planets must be gradually...
Page 129 - ... I'm Cap-tain Jinks of the Horse Ma-rines, I feed my horse on corn and beans And Fine swing the la - dies in their teens For that's the style in the ar - my.
Page 236 - But according to Thomson, though the primitive fluid is the only true matter, yet that which we call matter is not the primitive fluid itself, but a mode of motion of that primitive fluid.