H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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... moral issue between Germany and the West grew more and more uncertain , Wells withdrew his confidence in Western intentions and his truculent attitude toward Germany . But the moral issues behind the war itself remained clear , and he ...
... moral issue between Germany and the West grew more and more uncertain , Wells withdrew his confidence in Western intentions and his truculent attitude toward Germany . But the moral issues behind the war itself remained clear , and he ...
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... morality . Again , no new faith and no new moral code - except fratricidal cults like nationalism and Marxism - had evolved to replace the discredited faiths of the positive religions.70 In The Shape of Things to Come Wells also called ...
... morality . Again , no new faith and no new moral code - except fratricidal cults like nationalism and Marxism - had evolved to replace the discredited faiths of the positive religions.70 In The Shape of Things to Come Wells also called ...
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... moral man - he was also forced to fight an exhausting perennial war against the brute instincts in his own nature . MAN AS PROMETHEUS From this assessment of nature , Homo sapiens emerged in Wells ' world - view as a being not unlike ...
... moral man - he was also forced to fight an exhausting perennial war against the brute instincts in his own nature . MAN AS PROMETHEUS From this assessment of nature , Homo sapiens emerged in Wells ' world - view as a being not unlike ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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