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... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ... © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ...................................................... ............................................................................ 4 THE GOOD LIFE .............................................................. ...table for underground cities. But there is no place in our solar system as ‘people friendly’ as our own Earth.” —“What made you volunteer for the... ...er-mad leaders and the universal propensity to prepare for and recover from war. Plato’s city-state and Bacon’s island state were too small to be us... ... in the cities. Here in California our population will double to 60 million people in the first half of this century. Most of this growth occurs bec... ...re monetary goals while the taxes rose to take care of the education of the war babies. The 60s saw an increase in the cold war between the East and ... ...cience, which is why they were so far ahead of the Christians. And when the Greek Philolaus proposed his heliocentric theory in the fourth century B...

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