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id: 18857
title: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
author: Verne, Jules
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  Now Professor Hardwigg, my worthy uncle, is by no means a bad sort of As I said, my uncle, Professor Hardwigg, was a very learned man; and I "I should like to know what it means," he said, after a long period. "Look around you," said my uncle in a stern voice, "heaven knows what "Enough for one day," said my uncle, rubbing his hands, "we will begin "Kyrkoherde," cried Hans, turning round and introducing him to my uncle. "I see you doubt my word," said my uncle; "follow me." "Now," said my uncle, "let us breakfast, and break fast like people who "Under the open sea," cried my uncle, rubbing his hands with a delighted "Take care, my boy," again cried my uncle, "you will fall into the sea." As soon as we had reached the rock, my uncle took the compass, placed it


id: 3748
title: A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
author: Verne, Jules
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  Nevertheless my good uncle was a man of deep learning--a fact I am "Now," said my uncle, looking straight at me, "to read the sentence "Come now," I thought, "these words seem to justify my uncle''s view For three long hours my uncle worked on without a word, without "_Kyrkoherde,_" said Hans, turning round to my uncle. "You don''t doubt my word?" said my uncle. "Now," said my uncle, "let us breakfast; but we must lay in a good it''s all right!" cried my uncle, "now, at any rate, we shall know slowly moved his head, and calmly pointing to my uncle said: At this moment Hans came, he saw my hand in my uncle''s, and I may "Yes," my uncle replied, "the Liedenbrock Sea; and I don''t suppose "He is right," said my uncle, whose glass has never left his eye. "Hans, to work!" cried my uncle.


id: 123
title: At the Earth''s Core
author: Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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  approached the little clump of verdure I saw the man come from his tent Perry looked to his generator; to the great tanks that held the Perry," I said, "by the time you can turn her into the horizontal." "A great light is commencing to break on me," continued Perry, taking attention from Perry long enough to enable the old man to gain the the valley, came a swarm of hairy men--gorilla-like creatures armed The all-powerful Mahars of Pellucidar are great reptiles, some six or eight feet in length, with long narrow heads and great round eyes. thing as time within Pellucidar there was no telling how long I had had been carried back to the birth time of our own outer world to look The old man looked at me for a long time before he spoke. "Good-bye, Perry!" I said, clasping the old man''s hand.


id: 605
title: Pellucidar
author: Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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  For a long time I stood buried in deep thought, when it occurred to me I had seen the thing so many times during my life within Pellucidar Far ahead, miles and miles away, I saw a great valley and mighty woods, It took us a long time to work around the islands and draw in close to great Sagoth came and spoke some words of command to those who watched As we came in sight of the warriors the men set up a great jabbering. forces of Hooja--a great horde of savage Sagoths and primeval cave power of Hooja; but time upon Pellucidar is so strange a thing that I For a long time I sat and watched the coming and going of great numbers necessary for me to hold off Hooja''s people while Dian made her way Dian and Juag, as much surprised as Hooja, turned wondering eyes toward


id: 37775
author: Lloyd, John Uri
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  into the earth we find an increase in the life force of the cavern air." darkness is produced, and then deeper down an earth light that man can which the nations of men will desert the surface of the earth and pass laws; but when The-Man-Who-Did-It came to tell of the intra-earth salt The old man accompanied his word "come," as I have said, by rising from After a time the old man removed the candle from my hand, and said: "Do earth surface knowledge that man has acquired, and experience the mind existences, possessed of new senses, of a mind development that man had to return to men, and be an earth-surface man again, and I started on surface earth, where the matter side of man dominates, a vicious guide and surface-earth man. Earth, as man upon the outer surface, can now know it,

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  Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey


id: 40439
title: Plato''s Doctrine Respecting the Rotation of the Earth and Aristotle''s Comment Upon That Doctrine
author: Grote, George
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  Platonic words, he calls the earth [Greek: ê(me/ras phu/lax kai\ first, in the rotation of the earth round its own axis, next, at believe that the earth revolves round its own axis in twenty-four the diurnal rotation of the earth round the centre of the cosmical earth packed round it, by the Platonic Timæus.] Now the function which Plato ascribes to the earth in the passage the cosmical axis is to revolve, the earth, being closely packed earth is packed close or fastened round the cosmical axis, so, if affirmation of Plato--that the earth was fastened round the affirming that the earth revolved round the cosmical axis. question thus--"Does Plato in the Timæus conceive the earth as rotation of the earth round the solid cosmical axis, which he that Aristotle ascribed to Plato the doctrine of the rotation of holds that the Platonic Timæus affirms the rotation of the earth,


id: 33178
title: The Holy Earth
author: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
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  meal of plain and wholesome food, the desire to do a good day''s work and that a very distinct form of society is developing in the great farming the man next the earth shall lead a fair and simple life; for in riotous place at the use of the people a kind of education that shall quicken The question then arises whether lands and other natural resources shall morals I mean the results that arise from a right use of the earth We need the great example of persons who live separately on their lands, political life possible; the setting off of a man''s farm into fields, reader who has formed a habit of observing men on day work and public A useful contact with the earth places man not as superior to nature but we shall need, in days to come, a group or a large class of persons, who


id: 55387
title: One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe
author: Carpenter, William
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  "plane sailing," a practical proof that Earth is not a globe. pointed proof that the Earth is not a globe. If the Earth were a globe, the distance round its surface at, common sense proof that the Earth is not a globe. proof that the Earth is a globe:" just as though anything in the world of the fact, and form a practical proof that Earth is not a globe. at all:--an evident proof that the Earth is not a globe. the thing which is called a "proof" of the Earth''s roundness, and thing is a delusion, and we have a proof that the Earth is not a globe. day and give us a proof that Earth is not a globe. to stand down, and make way for a proof that the Earth is not a globe. standing before us a proof that Earth is not a globe.


id: 62580
title: Quest''s End
author: Wells, Basil
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  And now another space ship was coming to Earth, coming to check on his plans to destroy the Orthans called for many tons of explosives. many tons of explosives to penetrate the tough hull of the space ship Thig''s space ship moved almost silently through the water offshore. Thig eased the limp body to the earth. Thig awaited the coming of the ship from Ortha on another island. "You are Thig?" said the even voice of the man from Ortha. "By the Law of the Horde," said Urol slowly, "you should be destroyed All through that first night after the space ship landed beside his "They are the Mad Ones," Thig said. "You will be destroyed before we return to Ortha," said Urol. Until he came to Earth, Thig had never known that there was such will destroy the ship and myself." Thig let the life boat drop away from the other ship.


id: 63652
title: The Violators
author: Binder, Eando
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  He drove his battered old space tub down at the world which lay frozen "Lem Starglitter Blake," said the little old man in unkempt jeans and ANCIENT NEW YORK, said a sign, MAIN CITY OF HOME EARTH IN PRE-SPACE Only Blake''s bag insisted on clanking now and galactic expansion, Earth itself gradually faded out of the picture. worlds, all records were lost as to where Earth might be. By the 100th century, even the name ''Earth'' had decided to make a shrine of Mother Earth, original home of the Starmen, organize a galactic hunt for Earth that took a century." forgotten world, Mother Earth." galaxy, have made the pilgrimage here to home Earth." At last Blake fumbled it out of his bag and held it up. "So this was the wrong Earth all the time, eh? As the guards dragged Blake off, McKay said, "Take him to my office.


