H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 61
... insisted in an editorial aside in his last novel , You Can't Be Too Careful , the " sane world community " for the sake of social solidarity could tolerate only one world - philosophy and one world - religion . To permit more would ...
... insisted in an editorial aside in his last novel , You Can't Be Too Careful , the " sane world community " for the sake of social solidarity could tolerate only one world - philosophy and one world - religion . To permit more would ...
Page 76
... insisted that the purpose was inscrutable , beyond human understanding , to be taken on faith . It had no practical meaning at the human level of observation . At the human level " nature " signified " lower nature , " the forms of ...
... insisted that the purpose was inscrutable , beyond human understanding , to be taken on faith . It had no practical meaning at the human level of observation . At the human level " nature " signified " lower nature , " the forms of ...
Page 156
... insisted on the importance of versatility to adaptive response . Intellectual progress , he said , depended on less , rather than more , specialization . Of all the solemn imbecilities one hears , surely the most foolish is this , that ...
... insisted on the importance of versatility to adaptive response . Intellectual progress , he said , depended on less , rather than more , specialization . Of all the solemn imbecilities one hears , surely the most foolish is this , that ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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