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jet_silver · 11-28-2001, 04:37 PM

This looks like a hoax.

"...vast number of species of all types of animals and vegetals..."

"The value of this area is unable to calculate."

"...possession of these valuable lands to such primitive countries and people..."

It scans like badly-translated Japanese, and it's full of value judgments. Perhaps it's from Vol. 1 of the Ku Klux Klan Encyclopedia for Right-Thinking Youngsters. If this is what's passing for a textbook in a US school, there will be swoons and breast-beating and rhetoric and table-pounding. It reminds me of the textbook-review process related by Feynman.

11-28-2001, 04:37 PM	#4
jet_silver wazmo medio Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: San Narciso, CA Posts: 53	This looks like a hoax. "...vast number of species of all types of animals and vegetals..." "The value of this area is unable to calculate." "...possession of these valuable lands to such primitive countries and people..." It scans like badly-translated Japanese, and it's full of value judgments. Perhaps it's from Vol. 1 of the Ku Klux Klan Encyclopedia for Right-Thinking Youngsters. If this is what's passing for a textbook in a US school, there will be swoons and breast-beating and rhetoric and table-pounding. It reminds me of the textbook-review process related by Feynman. __________________ "De lood van die Goevernement sal nou op julle smelt." -Thomas Pynchon