H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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... career . Articles , novels , and tracts continued to pour out , as if by an irresistible impulse from an inexhaustible source . Wells ' later prewar work , although it yielded no pro- phetic books on a plane with Anticipations and A ...
... career . Articles , novels , and tracts continued to pour out , as if by an irresistible impulse from an inexhaustible source . Wells ' later prewar work , although it yielded no pro- phetic books on a plane with Anticipations and A ...
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... career he went to the other extreme of equating it with God . But the idea persisted for all its permutations of meaning through the whole course of his work . Humanity conceived merely as a Promethean rebel left unclear the ...
... career he went to the other extreme of equating it with God . But the idea persisted for all its permutations of meaning through the whole course of his work . Humanity conceived merely as a Promethean rebel left unclear the ...
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... career as a prophet of world order . INTELLECTUAL INTEGRATION Wells ' definition of " education " to embrace every kind of learning , especially adaptive learning , and his habitual use of the analogy between individual brains and the ...
... career as a prophet of world order . INTELLECTUAL INTEGRATION Wells ' definition of " education " to embrace every kind of learning , especially adaptive learning , and his habitual use of the analogy between individual brains and the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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