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Not sure where your questions are coming from or going to.
Short answer, no. To use today's standards to judge the past was shown to be wrong by H. M. Paull in his book Literary Ethics--guess what he proceeded to do. We have a more fine-tuned "standard" (nothing written down) on how few words one can use without giving credit. Back then, one could use entire Bible verses, 2-8 lines from a poem, etc. without a word of complaint. In EGW's case, most of her alleged similarities lie within the 3-6 word range and we now know that you only have a probability at that level. You need 16-18 words to be sure that it was copied.
Yes. In one case a Thomas D. Suplee (sp?) took a novel written by Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth and virtually the only thing he did to it was to change the names of the characters.
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This type of thinking is what got people into trouble when they thought that since the Gilgamesh Epic has a creation and flood story, then _obviously_ Moses copied from them. They ignored all the differences between the stories.
They are all taking rather basic common sense approaches to health. No smoking (oh my, who'd I copy that from?!?), get more fresh air (who'd I copy that from?), eat less red meat (here we go again, rampant plagiarism I tell ya!), etc., etc.. Talk to your family doctor and see if he/she gives the same advice, or surf the web and find the same advice--would you accuse them of plagiarism?
Can Kindle or other ereaders automatically load and read pdf files?
