H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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... Victorian way of life , through the agency of inevitable technological change . With Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell , in the end he helped to liberate the twentieth - century mind from a wide assortment of Victorian prejudices . The ...
... Victorian way of life , through the agency of inevitable technological change . With Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell , in the end he helped to liberate the twentieth - century mind from a wide assortment of Victorian prejudices . The ...
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... Victorian ancien régime , which made him worth reading . < The Victorian order was already far gone in decay , and ripe for concerted assault , when Wells and his generation began writing near the turn of the century . " The balance of ...
... Victorian ancien régime , which made him worth reading . < The Victorian order was already far gone in decay , and ripe for concerted assault , when Wells and his generation began writing near the turn of the century . " The balance of ...
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... Victorian Aftermath : “ Science , to Mr. Wells , was no beneficent fairy , but a djinn of unlimited power , which ... Victorian Aftermath , in The Victorian Cycle ( New York , Morrow , 1935 ) , pp . 147-49 . Professor Gibberne , the ...
... Victorian Aftermath : “ Science , to Mr. Wells , was no beneficent fairy , but a djinn of unlimited power , which ... Victorian Aftermath , in The Victorian Cycle ( New York , Morrow , 1935 ) , pp . 147-49 . Professor Gibberne , the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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