...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...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... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...rth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...d death—the states retained for themselves. To this day, for instance, the federal courts and the federal officials have no power to interfere to prot... ...ide the district of Columbia. The state governments still see to that. The federal government has the legal right perhaps to intervene, but it is stil... ...of Nations idea, is to think of some very elaborate and definite scheme of members on the model of existing legislative bodies, called together one ha... ...in the government of their own lands, until they too become free and equal members of the world league. Neither France nor Italy nor Britain nor Ameri... ...rcely more than what we English might call sovereign urban districts. Fast communications were made by runners; even the policeman with a bicycle of t...

...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, essen...