H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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... managed to outguess the professors.23 His imagination was more elastic , his vision broader , and he had a wider variety of sources of informa- tion to check one against the other . Wells ' preoccupation in prewar years with the coming ...
... managed to outguess the professors.23 His imagination was more elastic , his vision broader , and he had a wider variety of sources of informa- tion to check one against the other . Wells ' preoccupation in prewar years with the coming ...
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... managed easily enough to convert all his fictional heroes to the same faith . Richard Remington in The New Machiavelli com- pared men to the cells and corpuscles in " some great brain beyond our understanding . " Richard Trafford ...
... managed easily enough to convert all his fictional heroes to the same faith . Richard Remington in The New Machiavelli com- pared men to the cells and corpuscles in " some great brain beyond our understanding . " Richard Trafford ...
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... managed by scientists , engineers , and public administrators , a fraternity more or less organized of “ functional ” men , a continuation of the Open Conspiracy into the new world order . In later periods the need even for public ...
... managed by scientists , engineers , and public administrators , a fraternity more or less organized of “ functional ” men , a continuation of the Open Conspiracy into the new world order . In later periods the need even for public ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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