H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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... Shape of Things to Come . Partly in the form of a novel , partly in the form of a Platonic dialogue , partly in the form of a treatise , A Modern Utopia offered a complete picture of a world society of the near future . Human na- ture ...
... Shape of Things to Come . Partly in the form of a novel , partly in the form of a Platonic dialogue , partly in the form of a treatise , A Modern Utopia offered a complete picture of a world society of the near future . Human na- ture ...
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... Shape of Things to Come can be accepted , the differ- ences are much outweighed by the similarities . All Wells ' Utopias , and especially the three principal Utopias - A Modern Utopia , Men Like Gods , and The Shape of Things to Come ...
... Shape of Things to Come can be accepted , the differ- ences are much outweighed by the similarities . All Wells ' Utopias , and especially the three principal Utopias - A Modern Utopia , Men Like Gods , and The Shape of Things to Come ...
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... Shape of Things to Come . But from all the Utopian books except A Modern Utopia , where Wells did not peer very far into the future of his Utopian constitution , it is plain that no such thing as an autocratic governing council could ...
... Shape of Things to Come . But from all the Utopian books except A Modern Utopia , where Wells did not peer very far into the future of his Utopian constitution , it is plain that no such thing as an autocratic governing council could ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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