H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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... scale essay in social philosophy , a set of nine 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 ...
... scale essay in social philosophy , a set of nine 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 ...
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W. Warren Wagar. the pace , scope , materials , scale , and possibilities of human life . " 58 The change of scale had " an effect as though upon the customary succession of day and night there were to dawn an unfamiliar illumination ...
W. Warren Wagar. the pace , scope , materials , scale , and possibilities of human life . " 58 The change of scale had " an effect as though upon the customary succession of day and night there were to dawn an unfamiliar illumination ...
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... scale . Prewar generations had grown up thinking and living in terms of classes and nation - states ; insofar as they had seen the rest of humanity at all , they had seen it from cramped , warped local perspectives . Under- standing ...
... scale . Prewar generations had grown up thinking and living in terms of classes and nation - states ; insofar as they had seen the rest of humanity at all , they had seen it from cramped , warped local perspectives . Under- standing ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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