H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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... prophetic , much less a messianic , figure . A plump , jaunty , extraverted , irascible little man with the < moral instincts of a Cockney Don Juan , he had always rel- ished - like his hero Richard Remington in The New Machiavelli ...
... prophetic , much less a messianic , figure . A plump , jaunty , extraverted , irascible little man with the < moral instincts of a Cockney Don Juan , he had always rel- ished - like his hero Richard Remington in The New Machiavelli ...
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... prophetic papers , collected in book form in 1902 under the title , Anticipations of the Re- action of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought . In the first several chapters he played the artful journalist using ...
... prophetic papers , collected in book form in 1902 under the title , Anticipations of the Re- action of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought . In the first several chapters he played the artful journalist using ...
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... prophetic career after 1914 is , of course , the subject matter of his books . With an old journalist's reverence for punc- tuality , he continued to produce as many books , on sched- ule , as before , but save for rare occasional pages ...
... prophetic career after 1914 is , of course , the subject matter of his books . With an old journalist's reverence for punc- tuality , he continued to produce as many books , on sched- ule , as before , but save for rare occasional pages ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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