H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 135
... twentieth - century book , but it empha- sized all the same his hopes for the social sciences . And it re- called his earlier prophecy , in 1924 , that most of the great scientific advances of the twentieth and twenty - first centu ...
... twentieth - century book , but it empha- sized all the same his hopes for the social sciences . And it re- called his earlier prophecy , in 1924 , that most of the great scientific advances of the twentieth and twenty - first centu ...
Page 262
... twentieth - century novel of ideas or discus- sion , in which , according to Wells ' own formula , the novelist takes " the whole of life " for his field of action.30 Wells ' re- bellion against the self - conscious artistry of the ...
... twentieth - century novel of ideas or discus- sion , in which , according to Wells ' own formula , the novelist takes " the whole of life " for his field of action.30 Wells ' re- bellion against the self - conscious artistry of the ...
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... twentieth - century mental climate . The interest generated in mid - twentieth century by the arguments of a Toynbee or a Northrop or a Mumford for some kind of integrated world civilization may also suggest that Wells was successful in ...
... twentieth - century mental climate . The interest generated in mid - twentieth century by the arguments of a Toynbee or a Northrop or a Mumford for some kind of integrated world civilization may also suggest that Wells was successful in ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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