H. G. Wells and the World StateYale University Press, 1961 - 301 pages |
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Page 55
... social organism had swollen immensely under the impact of technological change . Vast fortunes had been piled up by unscrupulous speculators like Edward Ponderevo in Tono - Bungay , at in- calculable cost to economic stability and social ...
... social organism had swollen immensely under the impact of technological change . Vast fortunes had been piled up by unscrupulous speculators like Edward Ponderevo in Tono - Bungay , at in- calculable cost to economic stability and social ...
Page 134
... social organization could be made scientifically . What economists could do with money and banking , other social scientists could do in other spheres . Industrial psychology promised to discover the " right way " of winning industrial ...
... social organization could be made scientifically . What economists could do with money and banking , other social scientists could do in other spheres . Industrial psychology promised to discover the " right way " of winning industrial ...
Page 135
... Social Nucleation did not sound much like a 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 ...
... Social Nucleation did not sound much like a 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 ...
Contents
Acknowledgments vii | 1 |
The Prophetic Office | 12 |
Fundamental Assumptions | 60 |
Copyright | |
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