H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 32
... less select audience . His influence grew increasingly less per- sonal and more diffuse . The world , by degrees , swallowed him up.30 The best index to the intensity of Wells ' commitment to a prophetic career after 1914 is , of course ...
... less select audience . His influence grew increasingly less per- sonal and more diffuse . The world , by degrees , swallowed him up.30 The best index to the intensity of Wells ' commitment to a prophetic career after 1914 is , of course ...
Page 104
... less and less from the analytical level of the individual . At the end of his spiritual pilgrimage he virtually accepted the realist argument that the whole is real and the individual an illusion . In the symbolic prologue to The ...
... less and less from the analytical level of the individual . At the end of his spiritual pilgrimage he virtually accepted the realist argument that the whole is real and the individual an illusion . In the symbolic prologue to The ...
Page 233
... less hurried , less in- 47. Social Forces in England and America , p . 154 . 48. For Wells ' refutation of the charge that his Utopia would be " dull " see World Brain , pp . 23–24 , and Things to Come , pp . xii - xiii . A typical ...
... less hurried , less in- 47. Social Forces in England and America , p . 154 . 48. For Wells ' refutation of the charge that his Utopia would be " dull " see World Brain , pp . 23–24 , and Things to Come , pp . xii - xiii . A typical ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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