H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 101
... racial life , accumulating wisdom and truth in the racial mind , was man's highest self . The gospel of the racial mind invaded almost every novel Wells ever wrote . It appeared time and again in his socio- logical books . In the end it ...
... racial life , accumulating wisdom and truth in the racial mind , was man's highest self . The gospel of the racial mind invaded almost every novel Wells ever wrote . It appeared time and again in his socio- logical books . In the end it ...
Page 104
... racial memory , a collective mind , the emergent intelligence of an emergent racial being.98 As Wells grew older , he tended to look at life more and more from the synthetic level of the racial being and less and less from the ...
... racial memory , a collective mind , the emergent intelligence of an emergent racial being.98 As Wells grew older , he tended to look at life more and more from the synthetic level of the racial being and less and less from the ...
Page 106
... racial being , and to insist that in dedi- cation to this synthetic racial being lay mankind's hopes for spiritual reorientation in the wake of the collapse of the positive religions . Wells ' " racial being " was by no stretch of the ...
... racial being , and to insist that in dedi- cation to this synthetic racial being lay mankind's hopes for spiritual reorientation in the wake of the collapse of the positive religions . Wells ' " racial being " was by no stretch of the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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