H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 105
... interest in recent years in semantics . Wells ' direct influence has been negligible , except on the level of transmission . First and Last Things , for example , probably helped to give wider currency to pragmatism during the heyday of ...
... interest in recent years in semantics . Wells ' direct influence has been negligible , except on the level of transmission . First and Last Things , for example , probably helped to give wider currency to pragmatism during the heyday of ...
Page 172
... interests of progress that every individ- ual with outstanding natural gifts should have every pos- sible opportunity to fulfill his creative potentialities . Conversely , the common man , the standard or substand- ard man , could also ...
... interests of progress that every individ- ual with outstanding natural gifts should have every pos- sible opportunity to fulfill his creative potentialities . Conversely , the common man , the standard or substand- ard man , could also ...
Page 249
... interest in youth . The young people in his novels after 1920 were still , in all their essentials , late Victorian or Edwardian young people . Except for a few vividly nineteen- twentyish types in novels written in the late twenties ...
... interest in youth . The young people in his novels after 1920 were still , in all their essentials , late Victorian or Edwardian young people . Except for a few vividly nineteen- twentyish types in novels written in the late twenties ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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