... 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 ...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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...

... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...scarlet, and the eagle of the empire on his breast testified to the futile election which he had purchased with the wealth of his Cornish mines. Both ... ...ho, as we all remember, is the son of a family deeply concerned in the Mad Parliament. By Sir Reginald, on his arrival at Castel San Giovanni, a messe... ...ances, been the life there led, more especially by the Levant-born sons of Europeans; and in the 110 The Prince and the Page universal disorganizatio... ... nor one of the assassins belonging to the Old Man of the Mountain, but an European, probably a Provencal; and this, added to Hamlyn’s representation ... ...ms; the bla- zoned arms of the noblest families of France, Spain, England, Germany, and Italy, decked the panels and brightened the windows; while the... ... here, how peacefully would he sing, and pray, and dream, free from debts, parliament and barons. Ah! had his kinsmen let him keep his vow, it had bee...

... 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...

... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...portraitures of our novelists, with the realities handed down to us by our Parliamentary annals), on that arena we are deal- ing with objects of pure ... ...entury, or between the privileged cities and the un- privileged country of Germany down to the Thirty Years’ War; but, for us, they are in the last de... ...ntury belonging I do not know, who had every possible bad quality known to European experience, and a solitary good one, namely, eight hundred thousan... ...En- glish, but in sounding Attic Greek. Latin is a privileged dia- lect in parliament. But Greek! It would not have been at all more startling to the ... ...onial worship, a pompous and elaborate cultus, were not brought forward in Germany until about ten or twelve years ago; whereas, my doctrine was expre... ...two birds with one stone.” It happens that the earliest book in our modern European literature, which has subsequently ob- tained a station of authori... ...ion for one and the same law. This being so, how could he possibly make an election be- tween two things which he constantly confounded and re- garded...

... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...s of German Life; and for the story of George the Triller, to Mr. Mayhew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from ... ...is XV . of France had taken the part of Austria, and had sent an army into Germany in the autumn of 1760. From this the Mar- quis de Castries had been... ... of being chosen to the higher offices of state, and who looked upon every election to the consulship as a victory. Three years previously, when a tri... ...am, and set forth on his march for London, that it became evident that the Parliamentary army, under the Earl of Essex, intended to intercept his marc... ...n as Lord Lindsay had begun to fear that the disputes between the King and Parliament must end in war, he had begun to exercise and train his ten- ant... ...ears a special meaning, which came home with strong and pain- ful force to European minds at the time the Prayer Book was translated, and for the whol...

... 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...

... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ... born again and born better is fit only to represent the City of London in Parliament, or perhaps the university of Oxford. The Child is Father to the... ...ot that the parents affected by it can- not control a majority of votes in Parliament. In domestic 7 Shaw life a great deal of service is done by chi... ...s, and the speeches and pamphlets of the people who want us to make war on Germany, and the Noodle’s Orations and articles of our poli- ticians and jo... ...e classically educated gentlemen who discuss politics in country houses at election time (and at no other time) after their day’s earnest and skilful ... ...ble if you have no sense of literary art. The reason why the con- tinental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the...

... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...which he had never visited by men whom he had never seen; bought a seat in Parliament from a poor and corrupt constituency, and helped to preserve the... ...s a good deal now. He must be a fool, for he contested the last Birmingham election, and came out at the foot of the poll with thirty-two votes throug... ... being worse off. However, there is some excuse for my father. Once, at an election riot, I got into a free fight. I am a peaceful man, but as I had e... ...fferent country. That one contains illustrations of modern civilization in Germany, for instance. That one is France; that, British India. Here you ha... ...vapid, and rather coarse, with here and there a passably pretty woman, are European kings, queens, grand-dukes, and the like. Here are ship-captains, ...

... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...sent home urgent letters for me to canvass right and left for the orphan’s election. You know Robert writes much better than he speaks, and I copied o... ... widow- hood had made them all in all to each other. Ten years ago, on his election to a lectureship at one of the London hospi- tals, the son had set... ...more physical science and less classics, and will not hear of his going to Germany, which is what he wishes, though I am sure he is too young.” “He ou... ...t’s all that is of use. If my uncle won’t let me study physical science in Germany, I had rather go on here, where I can be let alone to study it for ... ...sing you as governess, and you were unani- mously elected in full and free parliament. It really was the child’s own thought and proposal, and what I ... ... in the family would be of Allen’s wife when he was a member of 199 Yonge parliament. But Janet was no longer at war with Kenminster. She laughed goo... ... scene in the cloistered court of a Moorish house in Alge- ria, adapted to European habits. The slender columns sup- porting the horse-shoe arches wer... ...ense, and had just come home from the French modiste who had adapted it to European wear. Allen started up in admiration and delight. Even Mr. Mor- ga...

... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...rious indications, and from none more than the recent debates on Reform of Parliament, that both Conservatives and Liberals (if I may continue to call... ... over them, or whom for private reasons they desire to propitiate. Popular election thus prac ticed, instead of a security against misgovernment, is ... ...esentative system if the electors do not care to choose the best member of Parliament, but choose him who will spend most money to be elected? How can... ...ersian satrapies; the Italian republics and the free towns of Flanders and Germany, with the feudal mon archies of Europe; Switzerland, Holland, and ... ...l eye. Next to Orientals in envy, as in activity, are some of the Southern Europeans. The Spaniards pursued all their great men with it, embittered th... ... contend with great difficulties in the commencement of their reign. Since European life assumed a settled aspect, any thing above mediocrity in an he... ... Senate and those which were sought by senators, were conferred by popular election. The Russian government is a characteristic exemplification of bot... ...for such an equal union. The German colony of East Prussia is cut off from Germany by part of the ancient Poland, and being too weak to maintain separ...

...ge ..................................................................................................... 108 Chapter IX Should there be Two Stages of Election?............................................................................................ 125 Chapter X Of the Mode of Voting ..........................................................................................

... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ... of this “war to end war,” the diplomatists of the Powers al- lied against Germany were busily spinning a disastrous web of greedy secret treaties, we... ...hese two writers seem disposed to welcome a peace with an unrevolutionized Germany, an idea to which, in common with most British people, I am bitterl... ...s of any in- ternational conflict, to the idea of a sort of Super-State, a Parliament of Mankind, a “Super National” Authority, prac- tically taking o... ...ach sovereign power should send one member to the 11 H.G. Wells projected parliament of mankind. This has a pleasant demo- cratic air; one sovereign ... ...features of the time is the evident desire of the Labour movement in every European country to take part in a collateral conference of Labour that sha... ...ppoint its international representatives. And here, again, I turn from any European precedents to that political outcome of the British mind, the Cons... ...ses. (I will not here go into the preliminary complications that makes the election of a President follow upon a preliminary elec- tion of two Preside... ...sh to complicate the question by any too explicit advocacy of meth- ods of election or the like. In the United States this college which elects the Pr...

... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... .......................................................... 178 THE DISEASE OF PARLIAMENTS .................................................................. ...f thousands of prosperous Americans to summer in Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equ... ...ts wholly or partially across the frontier. In every locality of a Western European country countless people are found delocalised, uninterested in th... ... lassitude and 23 H. G . Wells a contented acquiescence in the rivalry of Germany and the United States for the moral, intellectual and material lead... .... I would as soon put to sea in St. Paul’s Ca- thedral. If I were fighting Germany, I would stow half of them away in the Clyde and half in the Bristo... ...They go out of town for the “shootin’,” and come back for the fooleries of Parliament, and to see what the Censor has left of our playwrights and Sir ... ...ey to the difficulty lies in the crudity and simplic- ity of our method of election, a method which reduces our apparent free choice of rulers to a ri... ...Chamberlain or selected by lot from among the inhabitants of Netting Hill. Election of represen- tatives in one-member local constituencies by a singl...

... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...ct and energy of character—was induced partly by that influence to go into Parliament, and there adopt the line of conduct which has given him an hono... ... profession thought of for me. But I was not indifferent to exclusion from Parliament, and public life: and I felt very sensibly the more immediate un... ...or excur sions, alone or with other friends. France, Belgium, and Rhenish Germany were within easy reach of the annual holi day: and two longer abse... ...g into these discussions the general doctrines and modes of thought of the European reac tion against the philosophy of the eighteenth century; and a... ...neither can this identity of interest be secured by the mere conditions of election. I was not at all satisfied with the mode in which my father met t... ...ns suitable to any given circumstances might be deduced. The influences of European, that is to say, Continental, thought, and especially those of the... ... on the contrary, they were the general property of Europe, or at least of Germany and France, but they had never, to my knowledge, been so com plete... ... of both, a subject of serious study. In the meanwhile had taken place the election of the first Reformed Parliament, which included several of the mo...

...SM 49 Usama Bin Ladin at a news conference in Afghanistan in 1998 ©Reuters 2004 Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 49 Prophet’s death, the question... ... two. T o extremists, however, such divisions, as well as the existence of parliaments and legislation, only prove these rulers to be false Muslims us... ... to tolerate any opposition—even in coun- tries, such as Egypt, that had a parliamentary tradition. Over time, their poli- cies—repression, rewards, e... ...ded state-of-the-art video cameras obtained from China and from dealers in Germany.The casing team also reconnoitered targets in Djibouti. 84 As early... ...fore 9/11) until he heard it mentioned during the Commission’s January 26, 2004, public hearing.The FAA had access to some TIPOFF data, but apparently... ...ere implemented, in part, in the House of Representa- tives after the 1994 elections, but there was no reorganization of national security functions.T... ... to go to war or deliver an ultimatum to the Taliban threaten- ing war.The election and change of power was not the issue, President Clin- ton added.T... ... contacted Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah on July 5. Hadley apparently called European coun- terparts, while Clarke worked with senior officials in the G... ...thern Philippines to Indonesia • West Africa, including Nigeria and Mali • European cities with expatriate Muslim communities, especially cities 366 T...