H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 20
... 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 superannuated . The need was for ...
... 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 superannuated . The need was for ...
Page 207
... imagination too far to fancy the latter - day Wells in a mood of exasperation , half - agreeing with his son's suggestion that he had been casting pearls before swine . All the conjurings- up of Utopia had not done much visible good ...
... imagination too far to fancy the latter - day Wells in a mood of exasperation , half - agreeing with his son's suggestion that he had been casting pearls before swine . All the conjurings- up of Utopia had not done much visible good ...
Page 249
... imagination and devotion of youth . Now , Kauff- mann noted from his own personal experience , students paid no attention to him . A reference to an idea of Wells ' in conversation yielded no response . Kauffmann might have added that ...
... imagination and devotion of youth . Now , Kauff- mann noted from his own personal experience , students paid no attention to him . A reference to an idea of Wells ' in conversation yielded no response . Kauffmann might have added that ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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