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

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...THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiave... ...STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...ss, the cross and the money-changers’ offices, the splendid grime of giant London and the crowds going perpetually to and fro, the lights by night and... ...inctly my father rejoicing at the break- fast-table over the liberation of London from the corrupt and devastating control of a Metropolitan Board of ... ..., and I remember disconnectedly quite a number of brightly lit figures and groups walking about, and a white gate between orchard and garden and a lar... ...hy but determined. She had rather open blue eyes, and she spoke in an even musical voice with the gen- tlest of stresses and the ghost of a lisp. And ... ...rtain amount of open-air speaking in the dinner hour outside gas-works and groups of factories. Some special sort of people was, as it were, secreted ...

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

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...The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bi... ...TATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...d. They spread out into a pattern. They were like the little monks who run from St. Jerome’s lion in the picture by Carpaccio. Then one zealot rushed ... ...ere had been a Third Person in the Trinity at all. He suggested a reaction from a too-Manichaean dualism at some date after the time of St. John’s Gos... ...ors were no good. There wasn’t a physi- cian in the diocese. He must go to London. He looked into the weary eyes of his reflection and said, as one ma... ...weary eyes of his reflection and said, as one makes a reassuring promise, “London.” He was being worried. He was being intolerably worried, and he was... ...s eat the fruit in Paradise? Perhaps there they worked for some collective musical effect, had some sort of conductor in the place of this—hullabaloo…... ...wnham with her next September. She aspired to his- tory. Miriam’s bent was musical. She and Phoebe and Daphne and Clementina were under the care of sk... ...of shining wet sand, a multitude of gulls was mysteriously busy. These two groups of activities and Eleanor’s flitting translucent movements did but s...

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...FLOOR GAMES by Herbert George Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Floor Games by H... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Floor Games by Herbert George Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...he Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H. G . Wells FLOOR GAMES by Herbert George Wells S S S S Section I ection I ec... ...ideas in them for after life. The men of tomor- row will gain new strength from nursery floors. I am going to tell of some of these games and what is ... ...me, and in a thou- sand permutations and combinations, belong to four main groups. We have (1) SOLDIERS, and with these I class sail- ors, railway por... ...ur experience will help a reader here and there to the former and save him from the latter. For instance, our planks and boards, and what one can do w... ... as red. Then we have “beefeaters,” (Footnote; The warders in the Tower of London are called “beefeaters”; the origin of the term is obscure.) Indians... ...TIES UILDING OF CITIES UILDING OF CITIES WE ALWAYS BUILD TWIN CITIES, like London and Westminster, or Buda-Pesth, because two of us always want, both ... ... of the city does there seem to be the slightest restraint upon the use of musical instruments. It is no place for neurotic people. The gardens contai...

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

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...When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication When the Sleeper... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portabl... ...N, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the pictur- esque cove of Pentargen, desiring to examine... ...ances, prompted him to keep the conver- sation going. “I’ve never suffered from sleeplessness myself,” he said in a tone of commonplace gossip, “but i... ...hotel to the Boscastle surgery, and from the surgery, after some weeks, to London. But he still resisted every attempt at reanimation. After a time, f... ...f drill (the sum- mer of that year was unusually hot). This was Warming, a London solicitor and next of kin to Graham, the man who had fallen into the... ...fter two hundred years. The haphazard cylinders he substituted displayed a musical fan- tasia. At first it was beautiful, and then it was sensuous. He... ...a crowd. He stopped near the highest step. Before him, on that level, were groups of seats and a little kiosk. He went up to this and, stopping in the... ...ble gold. They clambered up the tottering walls, they clung in wreaths and groups about the high-standing pillars. They swarmed along the edges of the...

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

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...he beginning. Originally I intended Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative writer. I wrote t... .... I have a slow con- structive hesitating sort of mind, and when I emerged from that undertaking I found I had still most of my questions to state and... ...d in his little scrap of reserved open country. Such is al- ready the poor Londoner’s miserable fate…. Our Utopia will have, of course, faultless road... ... that? How could we live and where could we live? We might have a house in London, but who would call upon us? … Besides, you don’t know her. She is n... ... and of the methods of intercourse and collective decision that hold human groups together, and finally of government and the State. The eluci- dation... ... be a great multitude of gracious little houses clustering in college-like groups, no doubt about their com- mon kitchens and halls, down and about th... ... chance light on the labour prob- lem—by perforating records for automatic musical ma- chines—no doubt of the Pianotist and Pianola kind—and he spent ...

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...The War in the Air by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the A... ... STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...our, Mr. Stringer, the milkman. “It’s only yestiday, so to speak, when all London turned out to see a balloon go over, and now every little place in t... ...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...ss shops, a school-board, rates, omnibuses, tramcars—going right away into London itself—bicycles, motor-cars and then more motor-cars, a Carnegie lib... ...t to them. They handled a line of cheap gramophones, and did a little with musical boxes. The staple of their business was, however, the letting of bi... ... ourselves—the Desert Dervishes.” They bowed profoundly. The few scattered groups upon the beach regarded them with horror for the most part, but some... ... it seemed like a hand-to-hand scuffle in the sky. Then they broke up into groups and duels. The descent of German air-ships towards the lower sky inc...

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Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

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...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Futu... ...PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ... to save the face of Germany by ini- tiating peace negotiations. But apart from their steady record and reminder of German brutalities and German aggr... ...what he has seen among the submarines, and Mr. Hugh Walpole catches things from Mr. Stephen Gra- ham in the Dark Forest of Russia. All this is quite o... ...I had not recognised before as a writer I had met some years previously in London, suddenly joined in our conversation, with a slightly different expl... ...g! One would be irresistibly reminded of a Sunday afternoon in the city of London, if it were not for those unmeaning explosions. I went to the statio... ...” at all. One finds that the apparent subaltern is really a musician, or a musical critic, or an Egyptologist, or a solicitor, or a cloth manufacturer... ...r their alli- ances, we may count it that the matter rests now between two groups of Allies and one neutral power. So that while on the one hand the d... .... 2 2 2 2 2 In the complex structure of the modern community there are two groups or strata or pockets in which the impulse of social obligation, the ...

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Excerpt: Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells.

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...IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of t... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- tabl... ...d. He drew a fresh sheet of paper toward him as he looked at me. I glanced from him about his apartment and back to the little table. A fascicle marke... ... forty. And I am out of touch with my youth. The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it borderi... ...s chilled and checked. Numbers of men stood about the streets in knots and groups, as corpuscles gather and catch in the blood-vessels in the opening ... ...le inactive, but there were a lot of people standing dispersedly in little groups, and with a general direction towards the gates of the Bantock Burde... ...met wrote a day or so later to the Times—I have that Times, I have all the London papers of the last month before the Change— “The man was paid off an... ...re hastily designed building in a dirty, paper-littered back street of old London, and a number of shabbily dressed men coming and going in this with ... ... decorative crock- ery, and hangings, and embroideries, and bad music, and musical instruments shared this fate. And books, countless books, too, and ...

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...MANKIND IN THE MAKING BY H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the M... ... an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as ... ...opolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most part, printed from uncorrected proofs set up from an early version. This periodical publi... ...nd if in the future it should be found possible to divide up humanity into groups, some of which could pair with one another only to the disadvantage ... ... ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. Payne, of the Deaf and Dumb Church, London.”] he must not be- get children heedlessly and unwittingly because o... ... should be written the most tragic consequences. The Foundling Hospital of London, estab- lished by Coram—to save infant lives!—buried, between 1756 a... ...Banstead, to what is perhaps preferable, the system of boarding-out little groups of children with suitable poor people. Provided such boarded-out chi... ...ining I mean the differentiation of sounds—articu- late, inarticulate, and musical—fixing the child’s attention and causing it to imitate. As every so... ...lve or fourteen. But, beginning early—as early as pos- sible—every child, ‘musical’ or not, can be trained, just as every child, ‘artistic’ or not, ma...

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...D Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishm... ...nic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...L rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. ... ... usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and throbbings. Th... ...out what it means.” I make a hasty promise and go out and tell my friends. From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps u... ...have—aeroplanes capable of starting from Calais, let us say, circling over London, dropping a hundredweight or so of ex- plosive upon the printing mac... ...e the aeroplane routes along the line of the world’s coast- lines and lake groups and waterways. The airmen will go to and fro over water as the midge... ...of adapting itself to them has been no more than patching. Individuals and groups and trades have found themselves in imperfectly apprehended and diff... ...ays been his dream to have a piano. The youngest girl, he is convinced, is musical. As a man who has knocked about the world and has thought, he quite...