...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the F... ...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Four... ...e BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publi... ...Y H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publicat... ...e end it will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply ... ...t will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an ... ...s on at the Peace Congress will either make or mar the lives of everyone I care for in the world, 18 In the Fourth Year and that somehow, by represen... ...go muck-heap. So here is the need for another Commission to look after the Health of Africa. That, too, should be of authority over all the area of “t... ...to subordinate “delegated” to “se- lected” men. The movement for electoral reform in Great Britain at the present time is one of quite fundamental imp...

...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, es...

...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION ... ...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Comin... ...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? ... ...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... ...rren- der almost as much of their sovereignty as the constituent sovereign States which make up the United States of America have surrendered to the F... ...of their sovereignty as the constituent sovereign States which make up the United States of America have surrendered to the Federal Government; if the... ...of sanitation—until the great chol- era epidemic. Everybody thought public health a very desir- able thing, but nobody thought it intensely and overri... ...ge all aggression. He concluded that war was played out. His book was very carefully studied in Germany. As a humble disciple of Bloch I should have r... ...ssion one hears nothing of “the young”; one hears only of “smart juniors.” Reform and progressive criticism in the le- gal profession, unlike all othe...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...ics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...is time adopted. That method assumes an air of haphazard, but it is not so careless as it seems. I believe it to be—even now that I am through with th... ...rwin quickened the thought of the world. Those were all perfect and static States, a balance of happi- ness won for ever against the forces of unrest ... ...inst the forces of unrest and disorder that inhere in things. One beheld a healthy and simple gen- eration enjoying the fruits of the earth in an atmo... ...y of minor officials, a matter altogether too much neglected by the social reformer on earth. They will not put into the hands of a common policeman p... ...its of energy, the grand total of work upon which the social fabric of the United States or England rests, it would be found that a vastly preponderat...

Excerpt: A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells.

...THE SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART BY H. G. WELLS 1922 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Secr... ...THE SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART BY H. G. WELLS 1922 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Secret ... ...T BY H. G. WELLS 1922 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...…. It’s scarcely time enough to begin.” “You’re certain that no regimen of carefully planned and chosen tonics—” “Dismiss the idea. Dismiss it.” He de... ... have lived by faith—as children do, as the animals do. At the back of the healthy mind, human or animal, has been this persuasion: ‘This is all right... ...rgely due. We left divorce-law revision to exposed adulterers and marriage reform to hot adolescents and craving spinsters driven by the furies within... ...yflower that we ought to be told about. I allow it’s a recent revival. The United States has been like one of those men you read about in the papers w... ... that we ought to be told about. I allow it’s a recent revival. The United States has been like one of those men you read about in the papers who go a...

Excerpt: The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells.

...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication First and Las... ...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication First and Last T... ...: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...closed and not natu- rally concluded, summed up hastily as it were, in the career and lecturings of Aristotle. Since then the world never effectually ... ... knowledge. Imagine a large clear jelly, in which at all angles and in all states of simplicity or contor- tion his ideas are imbedded. They are all v... ...ollows:— “I can see no reason why even to-day a number of persons avowedly united in the same ‘Belief’ and recognizing each other as the self-constitu... ...ck by the apparently cha- otic and wasteful character of most contemporary reform movements, and it seemed reasonable to suppose that those who aimed ... ... Samurai are, in fact, volunteers. Any intel- ligent adult in a reasonably healthy and efficient state may, at any age after five and twenty, become o...

...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong....

...THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT by H. G. Wells (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSIC... ...THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT by H. G. Wells (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S... ... (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...ith every one, but it is difficult to be sure; few men who go into dangers care very much to talk about fear… .” Later Benham found some excuses for f... ...rcumstantial narrative seemed unfor- gettable. A little lapse from perfect health and the obsession returned. He could not endure the neighing of hors... ... broader-minded, more progressive type of parent, he became an educational reformer, and wrote upon modernizing the curriculum with increasing frequen... ...sibilities, he did not say what he was going to be, proconsul, ambassador, statesman, for days. And he talked vaguely of wanting to do something fine,... ...If you are going for the handsome thing in life then the world has to be a united world, Benham, as a matter of course. That was settled when the rail...

Excerpt: The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells.

...GOD THE INVISIBLE KING by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication God the Invis... ...GOD THE INVISIBLE KING by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication God the Invisibl... ...NG by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ing mainly into one or other of two divergent groups; and that people slip carelessly from one to the other of these groups of ideas and so get into u... ...d him. All this is in the nature of things. If every one who perceives and states it were to be instantly killed and blotted out, presently other peop... ...ook at the causes of things. They are afraid of sunshine, of nakedness, of health, of adventure, of science, lest that old watching spider take offenc... ...ainst his client. The successful promoted advocate, who in Britain and the United States of America is the judge, and whose habits and interests all i... ..., of making that theory and prac- tice clear and plain to ordinary men, of reforming the abuses of the profession by working for the separation of bar...

...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statemen...

...THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machi... ...THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiave... ...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ing play of instinctive passion and desire against too abstract a dream of statesmanship. But things that seemed to lie very far apart in Machiavelli’... ...e vision of the ordered world. Love has brought me to disaster, because my career had been planned regardless of its possibility and value. But Machia... ... appeared occupied by retired tradesmen and widows, who esteemed the place healthy, and by others of a strange new unoccupied class of people who had ... ...It is easy enough to carp at schoolmasters and set up for an Educa- tional Reformer, I know, but still it is impossible not to feel how infinitely mor... ...o Republican and Democrat, for example, and you have the conditions in the United States. The Crown or a dethroned dynasty, the Estab- lished Church o...

Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

...The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a... ...The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bi... ...Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ...ck of a gilt chair, over which a garment of peculiar construction had been carelessly thrown. It was in the form of that sleeveless cassock of purple,... ...al and political instability, and the first beginnings of the bishop’s ill health. 4 4 4 4 4 There came a day of exceptional fatigue and significance.... ...ire to forward the interests of his realm that the King decided to set his statesmen an example— which unhappily was not very widely followed—by absta... ...ce with an effect of a defi- nite challenge. He decided to take one of the Reform club bedrooms for two or three days, and wire to Princhester that he... ...- ers, accidents, and absurdities who bear crowns and sceptres today—of an united mankind.” 131 H G Wells He paused, and in the pause he heard a litt...

Excerpt: The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells.

...When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication When the Slee... ...When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication When the Sleeper... ...s by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ...met. “Sorry to upset your ideals,” said Isbister with a sense of devil-may-careish brilliance. “But a suicide over that cliff (or any cliff for the ma... ...g, sleeping till he died. He knew that quite well! And plump! a man in the United States, who had lost two sons in a boat accident, fol- lowed that up... ...ping till he died. He knew that quite well! And plump! a man in the United States, who had lost two sons in a boat accident, fol- lowed that up with a... ... endless opportunities. Already we of the popular party were agitating for reforms—when your wak- ing came. Came! If it had been contrived it could no... ...lace remarks, assurances of loyalty and frank inquiries about the Master’s health. His manner was breezy, his accent lacked the easy staccato of latte...

Excerpt: When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.

...ORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Engli... ...D Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishm... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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... ...surf, and I was carried to it on a boatman’s back, and then had to clamber carefully through the wires, but that is a matter of detail. This flying is... ...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of ... ...unt of time and money needed to move—it may be half-way round the world—to healthier conditions or more profitable employment. And with every diminuti... ...ore Mr. Chamberlain’s return from South Africa and the adoption of T ariff Reform by the Unionist Party; and I decipher again the same consid- eration...

...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 i...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT...................................................................................

...MANKIND IN THE MAKING BY H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in th... ...MANKIND IN THE MAKING BY H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the M... ...Y H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... .... G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ll be equally available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of r... ...qually available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of reunion,... ... intensely religious or utterly in- different to religious matters and yet care nothing for these things. One may be a Pietist to whom the world is a ... ...e the heart-words of life. Not only is the general out- line of the normal healthy human life reproductive, but a vast proportion of the infinitely co... ... of the study blame the general body of people for remaining unaffected by reforming proposals of an almost obvious advantage, it would be well if we ...

...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and o...