H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 93
... scientist in the usual sense . He measured nothing ; he painstakingly reconstructed significant episodes in natural ... scientists , but had somehow to combine the objective study of the behavior of society with subjective methods of ...
... scientist in the usual sense . He measured nothing ; he painstakingly reconstructed significant episodes in natural ... scientists , but had somehow to combine the objective study of the behavior of society with subjective methods of ...
Page 96
... scientists could supply the race with all it wanted and needed in no time at all , but what men lacked was the will and the common allegiance to humanity to use the free gifts of science for human welfare . " " They solve the problems ...
... scientists could supply the race with all it wanted and needed in no time at all , but what men lacked was the will and the common allegiance to humanity to use the free gifts of science for human welfare . " " They solve the problems ...
Page 97
... Scientists had to be incorporated into the greater scheme of social advance by " the man of more gen- eral intelligence and wider purpose . The company of scien- tific men is less like a host of guiding angels than like a swarm of ...
... Scientists had to be incorporated into the greater scheme of social advance by " the man of more gen- eral intelligence and wider purpose . The company of scien- tific men is less like a host of guiding angels than like a swarm of ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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