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...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... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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’... ...he dust and dirt of that immediate life, washed himself, put on his “noble court dress,” closed the door on the world of toiling and getting, private ... ...ued so that at times he produced an effect of weird world-forgetfulness. I listened puzzled, and at that time not upderstanding many things that after... ...ieve, Monkeys’ Parades—the shop apprentices, the young work girls, the boy clerks and so forth, stirred by mys- terious intimations, spend their first... ... inexplicable incest, of gods faded beyond sym- bolism, of that Relentless Law we did not believe in for a moment, that no modern western European can... ...of this or that county in the struggle for the championship is a matter of supreme impor- tance to boys. He obliged us to affect a passionate interest... ...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...

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... (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...think he’ d kill a schoolboy for honest doubt. Even old Roddles—” “I can’t listen to you,” cried Latham the humourist, “I can’t listen to you. It’s—ho... ...sily. He went on beyond his starting place toward the corner, and did that supreme bit, to and fro, that bit where the lump was falling away, and he h... ... fraction of his dwindling capital upon a science labo- ratory and a fives court; he added a London Bachelor of Sci- ence with a Teaching Diploma to t... ...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,... ... money and bought and kept a small terrier in the school house against all law and tradition, under the baseless pretence that it was a stray animal o... ...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... ...ay in the north? What of his debt to the stokers on the liners, and to the clerks in the city? He reiterated the cardi- nal article of his creed: The ...

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

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...assics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...argues and argues, and the foot- lights return, and then you find yourself listening again to the rather too plump little man at his table laboriously... ...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 ... ...only the dead things, the choiceless things, live in absolute obedience to law. To have free play for one’s individuality is, in the modern view, the ... ...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... ...ts to curi- osity at our dress. “What is the matter, madam?” he asks, in a courteous voice. She explains. So far the impression we have had of our Uto... ...fices would sort the stream, and all day and all night for ever a swarm of clerks would go to and fro correcting this central register, and photograph... ...ol. And the natu- ral centre of the emotional life, the cardinal will, the supreme and significant expression of individuality, should lie in the sele...

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...MET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...turned to me. “Wouldn’t you like to see?” I had to look, and then I had to listen, how that this scarce- visible intruder was to be, was presently to ... ...lden evenings that do not so much give way to night as admit at last, upon courtesy, the moon and a choice retinue of stars, that Nettie and I, at the... ...reat houses lurked the Landlord and the Capitalist, with his scoundrel the Law- yer, with his cheat the Priest, and we others were all the vic- tims o... ...as a quiet youth, and stiff and restrained in all things, while I had that supreme gift for young men and democracies, the gift of copious expression.... ...of men known as the “New Finan- ciers,” one heard frightened old-fashioned statesmen assert- ing with passion that “dumping” didn’t occur, or that it ... ...purse-proud farmer with an enormous belly, that fine dream of freedom, the United States, by a cunning, lean-faced rascal in striped trousers and a bl... ...ayed houses, its myriads of draggled prostitutes, its millions of hurrying clerks? The very leaves upon its trees were foul with greasy black defileme...

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...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 an...

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Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION ... ... is very largely analysis aimed at forecasting. The test of any scientific law is our verification of its anticipa- tions. The scientific training dev... ... That means that there must be some head power, some point of reference, a supreme court of some kind, a universally recognised executive over and abo... ...ans that there must be some head power, some point of reference, a supreme court of some kind, a universally recognised executive over and above the s... ...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... ... that this wasteful Bocking-Braintree muddle, with its two boards, its two clerks, its two series of jobs and contracts, manages to keep on, was even ... ... different times have been of very different qualities; at the head of the list are the English who went over in the May- flower; at the bottom will b...

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

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ... in the same district, usually in the same village; and to that condition, law, custom, habits, morals, have adapted themselves. The whole plan and co... ...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 ... ...lishmen, who have no place in the hierarchy of our land, who do not attend Courts nor encounter uniforms, whose function is at most spectacular, who s... ...imaginativeness which distinguishes all ex- cellent work, which shines out supremely in Cromwell’s cre- ation of the New Model, or Nelson’s plan of ac... ...ht amuse you as one is amused by looking out of a window into a street, or listening to a piece of agreeable music, and that might be the limit of its... ...hither, too, are drawn a multitude of journalists and political agents and clerks, a crowd of underbred, mediocre men. For most of them there is neith...