H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 162
... brain center , " a world bureau of reference , which would in time have the same relation to the mind of the race that individual brains have to individual minds . Wells had long been interested in world economic informa- tion services ...
... brain center , " a world bureau of reference , which would in time have the same relation to the mind of the race that individual brains have to individual minds . Wells had long been interested in world economic informa- tion services ...
Page 163
... brain " to become anything more than the barest imaginative notion in his later writing . It remained only partly visualized and partly formed in his own mind : a scientist among poets , he was also and always a poet among scientists ...
... brain " to become anything more than the barest imaginative notion in his later writing . It remained only partly visualized and partly formed in his own mind : a scientist among poets , he was also and always a poet among scientists ...
Page 242
... brain and body , and even solve the imme- morial riddles of metaphysics and religious experience . Wells set no limits upon discovery . Day by day , this little planet and at length perhaps this strange , scattered , starry universe ...
... brain and body , and even solve the imme- morial riddles of metaphysics and religious experience . Wells set no limits upon discovery . Day by day , this little planet and at length perhaps this strange , scattered , starry universe ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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