H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 63
... later attitude toward the social order ; 8 but essentially he came to Huxley an intellectual tabula rasa , a boy of eighteen with a powerful , but still unformed mind . What happened explains itself . After eighteen years in provincial ...
... later attitude toward the social order ; 8 but essentially he came to Huxley an intellectual tabula rasa , a boy of eighteen with a powerful , but still unformed mind . What happened explains itself . After eighteen years in provincial ...
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... later years — as a human anthill , 12 goes far to explain his orientation as a prophet of world order , his talent for projecting problems on a planetary scale , and his inability to project them on any other . The sections which follow ...
... later years — as a human anthill , 12 goes far to explain his orientation as a prophet of world order , his talent for projecting problems on a planetary scale , and his inability to project them on any other . The sections which follow ...
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... later - to appeal to well - meaning souls who could not dispense with at least the simulacrum of a per- sonal God.111 Something of that brief adventure in theolo- gizing has already been told , 112 and although it has a certain ...
... later - to appeal to well - meaning souls who could not dispense with at least the simulacrum of a per- sonal God.111 Something of that brief adventure in theolo- gizing has already been told , 112 and although it has a certain ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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