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... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...was to be called by a whole generation of scientific men, ‘the greatest of European chemists,’ were staying in a villa near Santo Domenico, between Fi... ...crossed in the air to Greece and Egypt, and came back over the Balkans and Germany. His family for- 38 The World Set Free tunes, which were largely i... ...rmies that sus- tained in their broader organisation the traditions of the European wars of thirty and forty years before. There was the infantry arm ... ...bsurdities of courts and the indignities of rep- 51 H G Wells resentative parliamentary government, coupled with the opening of vast fields of opport... ...e. ‘But,’ cried Firmin, ‘you must have sanctions! Will there be no form of election, for example?’ ‘Why should there be?’ asked the king, with intelli... ...st going to lay down our differences and take over government. Without any election at all. Without any sanction. The governed will show their con- se... ...mour for representative government, and build high hopes upon a return, to parliamentary institutions. The council decided to give them everything the... ...eyes and a thick moustache to hide a poor mouth. He aimed at noth- ing but Germany, Germany emphasised, indurated, enlarged; Germany and his class in ...

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... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...omic changes were going on un- der our eyes, now the hoardings flamed with election plac- ards, now the Salvation Army and now the unemployed came tra... ... Relentless Law we did not believe in for a moment, that no modern western European can believe in. We thought of the characters in the unconvincing w... ...college system with strong faculties in modern philosophy, modern history, European literature and criticism, physical and biological science, educati... ...of an accurately transposed French Revolution. We rebuilt London by Act of Parliament, and once in a mood of hygienic enterprise we transferred its po... ...ng on down that winding road, talking of politics and parties and bills of parliament and all sorts of dessicated things. That road seemed to me to wi... ...,” said the doctor. “Let him hear the worst.” “I’d like to hear,” I said. “Electioneering shatters convic- tions and enfeebles the mind.” “Not mine,” ... ...ded by the feeling that all things moved to- wards a day of reckoning with Germany, and I was largely instrumental in keeping up the suggestion that I... ...rth- less and, so habitually as to be now almost unconsciously, dishonest. Germany is beating England in every matter upon 248 The New Machiavelli wh...

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... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...onvincing there of my doting attachment to the place. I go down to Eton on Election Saturday and Sunday for my last enjoyment of it this year; but if ... ...k and Anschauungswerk of the Orientals, which is so different from that of Europeans or their language. How hard are the meta- phors of the Bible for ... ... interesting introductions. He returned to his rooms at Merton direct from Germany. Like many men who have come back to Oxford at a riper age than tha... ...l, in 1826, a sandal-wood trader named Dillon found in the possession of a European, who had lived since 1813 in Ticopia, the silver guard of a sword,... ... Curtis Island, and again with a favourable impres- sion; but the Brisbane Parliament had just been prorogued, 421 Yo n g e everyone was taking holid... ... &c.,’ was pleasant to the eyes that had been so enthusiastic in Italy and Germany, and had so long fasted from all beauty but that of Nature, in one ... ...f full communion between the Home and the Colonial Church can be matter of Parliamentary legislation. It is the “One Faith, One Lord,” that binds us t...

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... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...ir time. Eh! They should have kept to the clever ones. But twice they held election. And Ostrog. And now it has burst out and nothing can stay it, not... ...rs of the world. Because they are the paying power—just as the old English Parliament used to be—” “Eh!” said the old man. “That’s so—that’s a good co... ... and throughout America his ownership was scarcely disguised, Congress and Parliament were usu- ally regarded as antique, curious gatherings. And even... ... as antique, curious gatherings. And even in the two Empires of Russia and Germany, the influence of his wealth was conceivably of enormous weight. Th... ...ells came problems—possibilities, but, uplifted as he was, even Russia and Germany seemed sufficiently remote. And of the quality of the black belt ad... ...and Asano made him explain. The Chinese spectre had vanished. Chinaman and European were at peace. The twentieth century had discovered with reluctant... ...an was as civilised, more moral, and far more intelligent than the average European serf, and had repeated on a gigantic scale the fraternisation of S... ...st mere Stock Exchange counters, selling their principles to pay for their electioneering. And the great concern of the rich was natu- rally to keep p...

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... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...Bible, not the little book which, in past times, came next to the Bible in European diffusion and currency, 1 viz., the treatise “De Imitatione Chris... ...s by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of the scene is the very evoker of the solemn reme... ...dealizes.] Ascend with me on this dazzling Whitsunday the Brocken of North Germany. The dawn opened in cloudless beauty; it is a dawn of bridal June; ... ...all the incalculable genera- tions that had trot this earth before us. The Parliament of living men, Lords and Commons united, what a miserable array ... ...ed, what a miserable array against the Upper and Lower House composing the Parliament of ghosts! Perhaps the Pre-Adamites would con- stitute one wing ... ...the limitation of expressions too wide or too vague, and upon the decisive election between meanings potentially double. Not in order to resist or eva... ...tually succeed so far in hoaxing the cabinets of Europe, that one third of European kings put down their names, and gave their aid, as conspirators ag... ...post- ing house so solitary, but that at all seasons, except a con- tested election, it could furnish horses without delay, and without license to dis...

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... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ... often surrebribed; a mail-coach yard was like the hustings in a contested election; and a horse-keeper, ostler, or helper, was held by the philosophi... ...more than snakes in V on T roil’s Iceland;* except, indeed, now and then a parliamentary rat, who always hides his shame in what I have shown to be th... ...established interests, 2, a large system of new arrangements, and 3, a new parliamentary statute. But as yet this change was merely in contemplation. ... ...cept the exhaustion in the vast adja- cent county of York from a contested election, no such si- lence succeeding to no such fiery uproar was ever wit... ...f. These two roads, one of which was the great highroad between France and Germany, decussated at this very point; which is a learned way of saying th... ...y odd remark upon Thomas à Kempis: which is, that a man of any conceivable European blood—a Finlander, sup- pose, or a Zantiote—might have written Tom... ...l. VI, pp. 178-215. 64 10 LORRAINE, now in great part in the possession of Germany, is the district in which Domrémy, Joan’s birth- place, is situated...

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... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...ly and easily accessible to everyone as is Zermatt or Lucerne to a Western European of the middle- class at the present time. On this account alone no... ...e beginning of this chapter, our Utopian specula- tions, like many Acts of Parliament, have ignored the differ- ence of sex. “He” indeed is to be read... ...sed qualities that was his most characteristic weakness. The spirit of the European people, of almost all the peoples now in the ascendant, is towards... ...wift rail- way to Paris and England and Scotland, and to the Rhineland and Germany will run. And as one walks out from the town centre one will come t... ...orned with caricatures of considerable pungency, we discover an odd little election is in progress. This is the selection, upon strictly democratic li... ...y as Uto- pian speculation on earth outranges a stevedore or a mem- ber of Parliament or a working plumber. Even the little things of daily life inter... ... to decide whether to continue 189 H G Wells him in office or order a new election. In the majority of cases the verdict is continuation. Even if it ...

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... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...ame on page 148, remarking that the profile, “like Napoleon’s, is superbly European!” The nearness of its resemblance to Mr. Douglass’ mother rests up... ...before him, where to choose;” and poor as may be my opinion of the British parliament, I can- not believe that it will ever sink to such a depth of in... ...t head for the present is President Pierce, whose boast it was, before his election, that his whole life had been con- sistent with the interests of s... ...trained harder, in their conventions, preparatory to the late presidential election, to meet the demands of the slavery party than at any previous tim... ... the moral sense of the civilized world is with us. En- gland, France, and Germany, the three great lights of mod- ern civilization, are with us, and ...

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... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...extensive than many a duke- dom, or even a reigning prince’s territory, on European soil. When the pathless forest that still covered this wild princi... ...play of every grace and virtue—as a newspaper phrased it, on the eve of an election—befitting the Christian, the good citizen, the horticulturist, and... ...make her the ultimate heiress of his unreckonable riches. Or the member of Parliament, now at the head of the English branch of the family, —with whic... ...n, to see Italy, and 148 The House of the Seven Gables part of France and Germany. At a later period he had spent some months in a community of Fouri... ... The Judge is a patriot; the fate of the country is staked on the November election; and be- sides, as will be shadowed forth in another paragraph, he...

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... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...e patriots of nationality who would have us believe that the miscellany of European squat- ters in the T ransvaal are one nation and those in Cape Col... ...e which needs exposure. It is known that the birth- rate is falling in all European countries—a fall which has a very direct relation to a rise in the... ... to the Cantonese or the Corean, and English to the Zulu or the Hindoo. In Germany and France, to a lesser degree in Great Britain, and to a still les... ...a it is misdirected because honours do not exist and power goes by popular election and advertisement. In certain directions—not by any means in all—u... ...e shop and at the polling booth. What else can you have but inheritance or election, or some blend of the two, blending their faults? Each system has ... ... system to the elec- toral riddle? Suppose, for example, at the end of the Parliamentary term, instead of the present method of electing a member of P... ...ed dividends, with a public representative upon its board of directors and parliamentary powers—may be an infinitely more honest, efficient, and contr...

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... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ................................................... 90 CHAPTER XXXIV THE LONG PARLIAMENT. A.D. 1641—1649.......................................... 93 CHA... ...had two children—William and Maude. The girl was married to the Emperor of Germany and the boy was to be the husband of Alice, daughter to the Count o... ...fterwards, the duke gave him up for a large sum of money to the Emperor of Germany. All this time Richard’s 33 Charlotte M. Yonge wife and ... ...r it no longer, the barons all met him at the council which was called the Parliament, from a French word meaning talk. This time they came in armor, ... ...House of Commons is made up of persons chosen— whenever there is a general election—by the men who have a certain amount of property in each county an... ...in amount of property in each county and large town. There must be a fresh election, or choosing again every seven years; also, whenever the sovereign... ...o reward him, and he set off across France to meet the armies of the other European countries. For, while the English were fighting in Spain, the othe...

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