H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 83
... mankind . " The Time Traveller as he flickered through time did see a sort of technological utopia in the near future , but in the more remote future mankind had split into two degenerate species , the dwarfed descendants of the old ...
... mankind . " The Time Traveller as he flickered through time did see a sort of technological utopia in the near future , but in the more remote future mankind had split into two degenerate species , the dwarfed descendants of the old ...
Page 109
... mankind , in which we all move and go , like blood corpuscles , like nerve cells , it may be at times like brain cells , in the body of a man . . . Even for me , upon occasion , the little lures of the immediate life are seen small and ...
... mankind , in which we all move and go , like blood corpuscles , like nerve cells , it may be at times like brain cells , in the body of a man . . . Even for me , upon occasion , the little lures of the immediate life are seen small and ...
Page 153
... Mankind , like its predecessors , ended in propaganda for world order . It made all the clearer Wells ' belief that education , here biologically defined as " the modification and elaboration of instinct , of innate dispositions ...
... Mankind , like its predecessors , ended in propaganda for world order . It made all the clearer Wells ' belief that education , here biologically defined as " the modification and elaboration of instinct , of innate dispositions ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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