H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 26
Page 70
... universe in much the same language as he used against the biological . As early as 1891 in his first published article , " The Rediscovery of the Unique , " he admitted that science had failed after all to make the universe rational ...
... universe in much the same language as he used against the biological . As early as 1891 in his first published article , " The Rediscovery of the Unique , " he admitted that science had failed after all to make the universe rational ...
Page 71
... universe of the physicists made no appeal whatever to the human heart or mind . For all practical purposes it could be forgotten , as one forgets nightmares and insoluble rid- dles.24 The universe of the biologists , on the other hand ...
... universe of the physicists made no appeal whatever to the human heart or mind . For all practical purposes it could be forgotten , as one forgets nightmares and insoluble rid- dles.24 The universe of the biologists , on the other hand ...
Page 76
... universe . In First and Last Things he even took as his " fundamental act of faith " the assumption that he lived in an orderly universe in which all things were invested with meaning and connected to some vast purpose . First and Last ...
... universe . In First and Last Things he even took as his " fundamental act of faith " the assumption that he lived in an orderly universe in which all things were invested with meaning and connected to some vast purpose . First and Last ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Anticipations Belloc biology British century chapter common creative critics democracy early economic edition Edwardian elite especially Experiment in Autobiography Fabian Society faith Gods Happiness of Mankind historian Homo sapiens human idea individual insisted integrated intellectual Invisible King Julian Huxley knowledge Last Things later literary living London Macmillan Men Like Gods ment mental Modern Utopia moral movement nature never novels Open Conspiracy Open Conspirators organization Outline of History political popular progress propaganda prophet of world prophetic career published race racial mind readers religion Samurai scale schools scientific romances scientists sense Shape of Things social philosophy socialist spirit T. H. Huxley thinker thinking thought tion Tono-Bungay twentieth twentieth-century universe Victorian Wealth and Happiness Wellsian Western whole William Clissold World Brain world crisis world encyclopedia World of William world order world revolution World Set Free world society writing wrote York