...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvan... ...back that migrations on a far huger scale from India into Africa, and from China and Japan into Australia and America are prevented. All the indicatio... ... is Canada, lying along the United States, looking east- ward to Japan and China, westward to all Europe. See the great slashes of lake, bay, and moun... ...and so forth. Some such books our philosopher would find already done—the “Bibliography of American History,” of the American Libraries’ Association, ... ...Civilisation.” Lecky’s “History of European Mor- als,” during the onset of Christianity again, is essentially so- ciology. Numerous works—Atkinson’s “... ...ies that are no more than mints for bogus degrees; one thinks of “Science” Christianity and Zion City. These things are quite insufficient for a Q.E.D...

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