H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 168
... Democracy ; it is all that Democracy can ever give us . Democracy , if it means anything , means the rule of the planless man , the rule of the unkempt mind . " Democracy simply did not work , as Ben- ham's friend Prothero pointed out ...
... Democracy ; it is all that Democracy can ever give us . Democracy , if it means anything , means the rule of the planless man , the rule of the unkempt mind . " Democracy simply did not work , as Ben- ham's friend Prothero pointed out ...
Page 170
... democracy.8 M. Ostro- gorski published a revealing study of the mechanics of party politics in 1902 , Democracy and the Organization of Politi- cal Parties , which Wells knew , and there were also Gustave le Bon's studies of crowd ...
... democracy.8 M. Ostro- gorski published a revealing study of the mechanics of party politics in 1902 , Democracy and the Organization of Politi- cal Parties , which Wells knew , and there were also Gustave le Bon's studies of crowd ...
Page 171
... democracy became routine in the postwar novels of ideas , and in 1932 Wells brought out a volume of pro- phetic esays entitled , significantly , After Democracy . The historian of the twenty - second century in The Shape of Things to ...
... democracy became routine in the postwar novels of ideas , and in 1932 Wells brought out a volume of pro- phetic esays entitled , significantly , After Democracy . The historian of the twenty - second century in The Shape of Things to ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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