H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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... Anticipations of the Re- action of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought . In the first several chapters he played the artful journalist using the arrival of the new century to dilate on the marvels of modern ...
... Anticipations of the Re- action of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought . In the first several chapters he played the artful journalist using the arrival of the new century to dilate on the marvels of modern ...
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... Anticipations in 1902 and the death of Edward VII in 1910. But he did not neglect the audience he had at- tracted with Anticipations . Mankind in the Making ( 1903 ) was a sequel designed expressly for the English - speaking world ...
... Anticipations in 1902 and the death of Edward VII in 1910. But he did not neglect the audience he had at- tracted with Anticipations . Mankind in the Making ( 1903 ) was a sequel designed expressly for the English - speaking world ...
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... Anticipations and A Modern Utopia , was significant in two ways . It was marked by a growing uneasiness over the prospects of Western civiliza- tion and by a change , after 1911 , in the character of his novels . Both developments ...
... Anticipations and A Modern Utopia , was significant in two ways . It was marked by a growing uneasiness over the prospects of Western civiliza- tion and by a change , after 1911 , in the character of his novels . Both developments ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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