H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 31
... sense of change before , but my sense of 27. Experiment in Autobiography , p . 569 ; cf. The Bulpington of Blup ( New York , 1933 ) , p . 192 . 28. " I will confess I was taken by surprise by the Great War . Yet I saw long ahead how it ...
... sense of change before , but my sense of 27. Experiment in Autobiography , p . 569 ; cf. The Bulpington of Blup ( New York , 1933 ) , p . 192 . 28. " I will confess I was taken by surprise by the Great War . Yet I saw long ahead how it ...
Page 138
... sense of the scope and scale of history . For Wells , as for Robinson and the New Historians in the United States ... sense , " he wrote in 1908 , " is the slow unfolding of a sense of community with his kind , of the possibilities of co ...
... sense of the scope and scale of history . For Wells , as for Robinson and the New Historians in the United States ... sense , " he wrote in 1908 , " is the slow unfolding of a sense of community with his kind , of the possibilities of co ...
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... sense of the limitations of science , progress , common sense , and socialism than many of his Victorian teachers , it was easy , after the traumatic experiences of the first World War , to look on Wells as a spokesman for exploded ...
... sense of the limitations of science , progress , common sense , and socialism than many of his Victorian teachers , it was easy , after the traumatic experiences of the first World War , to look on Wells as a spokesman for exploded ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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