H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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... future , but by design the Fabian imagination did not stretch beyond the limits of local and national social and political reform . By the first decade of the twentieth century the best Utopian socialists of the nineteenth were sadly ...
... future , but by design the Fabian imagination did not stretch beyond the limits of local and national social and political reform . By the first decade of the twentieth century the best Utopian socialists of the nineteenth were sadly ...
Page 82
... Future , both published in 1902. But with these few doubtful exceptions , 51 and an occasional rhetorical - ex ... future , " in Wells ' own description , " that ran counter to the placid assumption of that time that 51. See especially ...
... Future , both published in 1902. But with these few doubtful exceptions , 51 and an occasional rhetorical - ex ... future , " in Wells ' own description , " that ran counter to the placid assumption of that time that 51. See especially ...
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... future time of a Great Good Place : not St. Augustine's City of God , but rather a Utopian Cosmopolis . In the very name of the movement its two chief tactical principles were disclosed . Wells would not , he thought , make the mistakes ...
... future time of a Great Good Place : not St. Augustine's City of God , but rather a Utopian Cosmopolis . In the very name of the movement its two chief tactical principles were disclosed . Wells would not , he thought , make the mistakes ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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