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Gulliver's Travels / Assembly Dynamics

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: authority, representation, discourse, governance, community  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-11

One of these grand assemblies was held in my time, about three months before my departure, whither my master went as the representative of our distric...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Mormon Society Insight

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: faith and governance, polygamy, community structure, isolation, identity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-29

They saw few or no churches, but the prophet’s mansion, the court-house, and the arsenal, blue-brick houses with verandas and porches, surrounded by g...
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Gulliver's Travels / Horses and Humanity

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: rationality, governance, moral critique, nature of power, enlightenment  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-22

When I asserted that the _Yahoos_ were the only governing animals in my country, which my master said was altogether past his conception, he desired t...
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Gulliver's Travels / Power and Fragility

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: authority, rebellion, resilience, vulnerability, governance  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

said, of one entire adamant, two hundred yards thick, might happen to crack by too great a shock, or burst by approaching too near the fires from the ...
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Gulliver's Travels / Noble Education Inquiry

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: education, nobility, governance, societal change, power dynamics  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

When I had put an end to these long discourses, his majesty, in a sixth audience, consulting his notes, proposed many doubts, queries, and objections,...
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Gulliver's Travels / Governance and Identity

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: national identity, governance, sociopolitical analysis, cultural fabric, historical reflection  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-03

I mentioned the prudent management of our treasury; the valour and achievements of our forces, by sea and land. I computed the number of our people, b...