H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 96
... scientists could supply the race with all it wanted and needed in no time at all , but what men lacked was the will and the common allegiance to humanity to use the free gifts of science for human welfare . " " They solve the problems ...
... scientists could supply the race with all it wanted and needed in no time at all , but what men lacked was the will and the common allegiance to humanity to use the free gifts of science for human welfare . " " They solve the problems ...
Page 97
... Scientists had to be incorporated into the greater scheme of social advance by " the man of more gen- eral intelligence and wider purpose . The company of scien- tific men is less like a host of guiding angels than like a swarm of ...
... Scientists had to be incorporated into the greater scheme of social advance by " the man of more gen- eral intelligence and wider purpose . The company of scien- tific men is less like a host of guiding angels than like a swarm of ...
Page 191
... scientists had the most favorable possible working condi- tions . They were also to make certain that scientists had ac- cess to clear , compact reviews and analyses of twentieth- century world issues , well enough integrated to be read ...
... scientists had the most favorable possible working condi- tions . They were also to make certain that scientists had ac- cess to clear , compact reviews and analyses of twentieth- century world issues , well enough integrated to be read ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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