H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 71
... living things . Man , the biological species , remained subject to the basic laws of life : " Homo sapiens is no privileged exception to the general conditions that determine the des- tinies of other living species . It prospers or ...
... living things . Man , the biological species , remained subject to the basic laws of life : " Homo sapiens is no privileged exception to the general conditions that determine the des- tinies of other living species . It prospers or ...
Page 127
... living on a world scale . Prewar generations had grown up thinking and living in terms of classes and nation - states ; insofar as they had seen the rest of humanity at all , they had seen it from cramped , warped local perspectives ...
... living on a world scale . Prewar generations had grown up thinking and living in terms of classes and nation - states ; insofar as they had seen the rest of humanity at all , they had seen it from cramped , warped local perspectives ...
Page 231
... living than unpopular art- ists ; and able people who needed extra money for their work would receive grants from the appropriate authorities . Wells even toyed with the idea of a class of rich men in Utopia , endowed by the state to ...
... living than unpopular art- ists ; and able people who needed extra money for their work would receive grants from the appropriate authorities . Wells even toyed with the idea of a class of rich men in Utopia , endowed by the state to ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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