H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 141
... writing for entertainment's sake . By the time he had reached recorded history , he had accustomed his readers to thinking of the human race as the conquering hero in a cosmic conflict between brute nature and emer- gent intelligence ...
... writing for entertainment's sake . By the time he had reached recorded history , he had accustomed his readers to thinking of the human race as the conquering hero in a cosmic conflict between brute nature and emer- gent intelligence ...
Page 207
... writing Utopian books , like The Holy Terror and Phoenix , several years after The Croquet Player . But West's testimony , based in part on conversations with Wells , should be taken seriously . It does not stretch the imagination too ...
... writing Utopian books , like The Holy Terror and Phoenix , several years after The Croquet Player . But West's testimony , based in part on conversations with Wells , should be taken seriously . It does not stretch the imagination too ...
Page 252
... writers have Wells specifically in mind has established itself over groan- 8. Toynbee , Civilization on Trial ( New York , Oxford University Press , 1948 ) , p . 17. Ironically , Wells was just in that year writing The War of the Worlds ...
... writers have Wells specifically in mind has established itself over groan- 8. Toynbee , Civilization on Trial ( New York , Oxford University Press , 1948 ) , p . 17. Ironically , Wells was just in that year writing The War of the Worlds ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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