H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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... turned me away from imaginative literature into a new direc- tion . " 29 The role Wells chose for himself altered his public , as it altered his work . It lost him one kind of reader and gained him another . He began to reach a wider ...
... turned me away from imaginative literature into a new direc- tion . " 29 The role Wells chose for himself altered his public , as it altered his work . It lost him one kind of reader and gained him another . He began to reach a wider ...
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... turned into a " walk - over " for catastrophe . He could not join in the enthusiasms of the world federalists in the late 1930's : I do not believe that a world order can come into exist- ence without a preliminary mental cosmopolis . I ...
... turned into a " walk - over " for catastrophe . He could not join in the enthusiasms of the world federalists in the late 1930's : I do not believe that a world order can come into exist- ence without a preliminary mental cosmopolis . I ...
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... turned out , on closer examination , to share the same end goal . Both represented the immortal element in mankind ... Turning , pp . 49-50 . times more than a suggestion , that Homo sapiens would The Ultimate Uses of Life 241.
... turned out , on closer examination , to share the same end goal . Both represented the immortal element in mankind ... Turning , pp . 49-50 . times more than a suggestion , that Homo sapiens would The Ultimate Uses of Life 241.
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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