H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 246
... failure . Wells saw the attack on the Victorian social order as only an episode in a larger struggle , in England ... failed . The Open Conspiracy had not materialized , either directly in answer to his books or as a great spontaneous ...
... failure . Wells saw the attack on the Victorian social order as only an episode in a larger struggle , in England ... failed . The Open Conspiracy had not materialized , either directly in answer to his books or as a great spontaneous ...
Page 267
... failed to exert a deeper and more lasting influence over thinking men was his unwillingness or inability to concentrate his energies on a conspicuously direct and systematic appeal to the elite groups who would , ultimately , have to ...
... failed to exert a deeper and more lasting influence over thinking men was his unwillingness or inability to concentrate his energies on a conspicuously direct and systematic appeal to the elite groups who would , ultimately , have to ...
Page 269
... failed . Taken on his own terms , he failed . But taken on the less exacting terms of history , he also succeeded . It matters only a little to the historian of ideas that Wells ' warnings and proposals and Utopias were not accepted as ...
... failed . Taken on his own terms , he failed . But taken on the less exacting terms of history , he also succeeded . It matters only a little to the historian of ideas that Wells ' warnings and proposals and Utopias were not accepted as ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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