H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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... society , with the other . The Webbs and most of the Fabian old guard looked on the Fabian Society as a compact , un- obtrusive , patient , molelike organism , whose destiny was to guide Britain to socialism by methodical , practical ...
... society , with the other . The Webbs and most of the Fabian old guard looked on the Fabian Society as a compact , un- obtrusive , patient , molelike organism , whose destiny was to guide Britain to socialism by methodical , practical ...
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... society disintegrated . Throughout its short - lived existence , the society's active members were mostly young people in their twenties and early thirties , many of them civil servants and engineers . If it was not a spectacularly ...
... society disintegrated . Throughout its short - lived existence , the society's active members were mostly young people in their twenties and early thirties , many of them civil servants and engineers . If it was not a spectacularly ...
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... society . The shape of things to come is still unclear . To use Karl Popper's language , the world society may be more nearly a " closed " society , on Catholic , communist , or even Wellsian lines , than an " open " society.49 It may ...
... society . The shape of things to come is still unclear . To use Karl Popper's language , the world society may be more nearly a " closed " society , on Catholic , communist , or even Wellsian lines , than an " open " society.49 It may ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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