...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...w Zealand and Australia, facing South America and the teeming countries of Eastern Asia; 29 H. G . Wells surely it is in relation to these vast proxi... ...n folk-songs and village gossip—Erse, the Taal, a hundred Indian and other Eastern tongues, Ca- nadian French—but I mean that also English must be ava... ...sistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the self-educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language should exist, visibly a... ...ians has drawn its ideas mainly from American publications, that India and Egypt, in despite of sounder mental nourishment, have developed their own v... ...World quence of his geographical conditions. But eastward of him, from his eastern boundaries to the Pacific, is a country al- ready too populous to c... ...gnificent compromise, the Establishment, or you by his Socialism or by his Catholicism or Darwinism, or even by his erroneous choice of ties and colla...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...