H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 65
... possible terms , at the level of genus and species . NATURE ON TRIAL One of the ironic accidents of the progress of natural science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been the growth in the minds of many sensitive thinking ...
... possible terms , at the level of genus and species . NATURE ON TRIAL One of the ironic accidents of the progress of natural science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been the growth in the minds of many sensitive thinking ...
Page 103
... possible from the existentialist's . Wells expounded his nominalism in its fullest terms in Book I of First and Last Things . He maintained that since all objects were unique , classification was , strictly speaking , impossible ; that ...
... possible from the existentialist's . Wells expounded his nominalism in its fullest terms in Book I of First and Last Things . He maintained that since all objects were unique , classification was , strictly speaking , impossible ; that ...
Page 158
... possible - he would scratch about in his mind until he had dug up le mot juste . But Wells had to admit that “ in nine- teen cases out of twenty I would just let the boat be there in the commonest phrases possible . " He would want “ to ...
... possible - he would scratch about in his mind until he had dug up le mot juste . But Wells had to admit that “ in nine- teen cases out of twenty I would just let the boat be there in the commonest phrases possible . " He would want “ to ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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