H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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W. Warren Wagar. of his own evolution . Whether the human prospect was de- cadence or triumph depended on the collective human will.15 A few years later , in the same Promethean key in the same journal , Wells took advantage of the turn ...
W. Warren Wagar. of his own evolution . Whether the human prospect was de- cadence or triumph depended on the collective human will.15 A few years later , in the same Promethean key in the same journal , Wells took advantage of the turn ...
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... human beings were all capable , by nature , of infinite evil . The animals on the Island of Dr. Moreau were brutes carved into men by an insane surgeon , but men themselves had come fresh from the mindless surgery of evolution . " Humanity ...
... human beings were all capable , by nature , of infinite evil . The animals on the Island of Dr. Moreau were brutes carved into men by an insane surgeon , but men themselves had come fresh from the mindless surgery of evolution . " Humanity ...
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W. Warren Wagar. and beyond human understanding.36 But nature for all her neglect of human values imposed her laws upon man . In common with all products of evolution he was obliged to adapt continuously to a continuously changing ...
W. Warren Wagar. and beyond human understanding.36 But nature for all her neglect of human values imposed her laws upon man . In common with all products of evolution he was obliged to adapt continuously to a continuously changing ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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