H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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... order in Europe . At pre- cisely the time when it should have given way to forms of political organization better suited to the new dimensions of life , the nation - state was growing cancerously out of all possibility of control ...
... order in Europe . At pre- cisely the time when it should have given way to forms of political organization better suited to the new dimensions of life , the nation - state was growing cancerously out of all possibility of control ...
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... world order , Wells believed no more in inevi- table disaster than in inevitable progress . Prometheus had no choice but to go on fighting . “ I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist at bottom , " Wells wrote in 1933. “ This is an ...
... world order , Wells believed no more in inevi- table disaster than in inevitable progress . Prometheus had no choice but to go on fighting . “ I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist at bottom , " Wells wrote in 1933. “ This is an ...
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W. Warren Wagar. edge through a world encyclopedia and the establishment of a world brain center , to serve both as a functionally inte- grated catalogue of knowledge and ... World Order 125 The Schools, the Universities, World Order.
W. Warren Wagar. edge through a world encyclopedia and the establishment of a world brain center , to serve both as a functionally inte- grated catalogue of knowledge and ... World Order 125 The Schools, the Universities, World Order.
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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