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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 ... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and the Future by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...ychological inepti- tude of the Germans, it is probably the clumsiest. The French Maison de la Presse is certainly the best organisation in exist- enc... ...e of the “treacherous” English who allied themselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas... ...e allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con- cerned in setting... ...roup of British and foreign sentimentalists who pretend so amusingly to be socialists in the Labour Leader, whose conception of foreign policy is to g... ...ell me all about Romain Rolland.” And so I pressed them about the official socialists in Italy and the Socialist minority in France until I got the qu... ...fabric of society in western Europe were to be handed over to those pseudo-socialists to-morrow, to be administered for the common good, they would fl...
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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Comin... ...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? ... ...RIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...S PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...n, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...ially if it is a question essentially mechanical—is shown by the work of a Frenchman all too neglected by the trumpet of fame—Clement Ader. M. Ader wa... ...g of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of... ...s gifted Pole made his forecast of the future. Perhaps it is more, for the French translation of his book was certainly in exist- ence before the Boer... ...and consciences about property; whereas we were Individualists, now we are Socialists. The British lord, the German junker, has none of the sense of u...
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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 ... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...ow that stir and whirl of human thought one calls by way of embodiment the French Revolution, has altered absolutely the approach to such a question. ... ...lying fragments of abortive salad. It was a fantastic massacre. It was the French Revolution of that cold tyranny, the vindictive overthrow of the pam... ...istic leanings— he had suffered the martyrdom of ducking for it—and a huge French May-day poster displaying a splendid proletarian in red and black on... ... streets, were really material to such questions. Directly any of us young socialists of Trinity found our- selves in immediate contact with servants ... ...w much about failures. 10 10 10 10 10 Willersley and I professed ourselves Socialists, but by this time I knew my Rodbertus as well as my Marx, and th... ...m. Socialism as a simple democratic cry we had done with for ever. We were socialists because Individualism for us meant muddle, meant a crowd of sepa...
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...Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ann Veronica:... ...Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ann Veronica: A ... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H. G . Wells Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells “The art of ignoring ... ...rveyed the backs of the Avenue houses; then her eyes wandered to 5 H. G . Wells where the new red-and-white villas peeped among the trees. She seemed... ... Pramlay received them in the pretty chintz drawing- room, which opened by French windows on the trim gar- den, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net ... ... The women’s meet- ing was much more charged with emotional force than the Socialists’. Ann Veronica was carried off her intellectual and critical fee... ...enny dinner in Soho and introduced her to some art students, who were also Socialists, and so opened the way to an evening of meandering talk in a stu... ...hat was it from the very beginning and they rendered their con- ception of Socialists and all reformers by the words “posi- tively frightening” and “w... ...rs to a landing upon which stood a bald-headed waiter with whiskers like a French admiral and discretion beyond all limits in his manner. He seemed to...
...The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a... ...The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bi... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...TATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...to be said for a proper sort of socialism, Ruskin, and all that. We’re all Socialists nowadays. Ideals—excellent. But—it gets misunderstood. It gives ... ...med that the church should hold back its curates from enlistment while the French priests were wearing their uni- forms in the trenches; the expeditio... ...thing rather jolly and familiar, something like a very good and successful French or Irish priest, something that came easily and readily into their h... ...; and as for the Mariposa, the dancer, she had nothing but Spanish and bad French, she looked all right, and it wasn’t very likely she would go out of...
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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...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... ...e Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells A MODERN UTOPIA BY H. G. WELLS A NO A NO A NO A NO A NOTE TE TE TE TE... ...ish is a coalesced language; it is a coalescence of Anglo-Saxon and Norman French and Scholar’s Latin, welded into one speech more ample and more powe... ...etoric of Carlyle and Ruskin 56 A Modern Utopia and the activities of the Socialists, is more apparent than real. The old edifice oppresses us still,... ...xample. It is only a reasonable tribute to the distinctive lucidity of the French mind to suppose the central index housed in a vast series of buildin... ...of his hands. On earth, where there is nationality, this would have been a Frenchman—the inferior sort of Frenchman—the sort whose only happiness is i... ...rimes of violence; people with red hair have souls of fire; all democratic socialists are trustworthy persons; all people born in Ireland have vivid i...
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...THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT by H. G. Wells (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S... ... ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portabl... ... an electronic transmission, in any way. The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...further side. “Don’t be afraid!” cried the peasant in his clumsy Valaisian French, and returned, returning along the plank that seemed quite sufficien... ...nd. Afterwards, rather ignobly, he tried to explain in his pub- lic-school French. “Pas de peur,” he said. “Pas de peur. Mais la tete, n’a pas l’habit... ...ist?” “Such a vague term.” “But these friends of yours—they seem to be all Socialists. Red ties and everything complete.” “They have ideas,” he evaded... ... insisted upon regarding Socialism as a proposal to reinaugurate the first French Revolution, as an inversion of society so that it would be bottom up... ...ice in the world?” he protested. “There would be ever so much more if your Socialists had their way.” “But still, don’t you think— …” It is unnecessar... ...ns. I do not say that So- cialism would not work, but I do say that so far Socialists have failed to convince me that they could work it. The sub- sti...
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...IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days o... ...IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of t... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- 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... ... an electronic transmission, in any way. In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...that my mind ran persistently that evening upon revolutions after the best French pattern, and I sat on a Committee of Safety and tried backsliders. P... ...nd quiet and with the faintest note of badinage. “One of many.” “We’re all socialists nowadays,” he remarked philosophi- cally, “and I haven’t the fai... ...- ing, towered over her, becoming for an instant at least a sort of second French Revolution, and delivered myself with the intensest concentration of... ...icourt and Donen. The hills beyond Spincourt were dusted thick with hidden French riflemen; the thin lash of the French skir- mishers sprawled out ami...
...LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM By H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Love and Mr. ... ...LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM By H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Love and Mr. Lew... ... STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Port... ...ATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portabl... ... as an electronic transmission, in any way. Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim... ...is further wall. And against the Carlyle portrait was a manuscript list of French irregular verbs. Attached by a drawing-pin to the roof over the wash... ...ow chocolate on the papered ledge by the bed-head indorsed that evidence. “French until eight,” said the time- table curtly. Breakfast was to be eaten... ...servative. His uncle’s controversial meth- ods were coarse in the extreme. Socialists, he said, were thieves. The object of Socialism was to take away... ...Then there’s shorthand—” “Here, I say!” said Lewisham. “There’s shorthand, French, book-keeping, commercial ge- ography, land measuring—” “But I can’t...
...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 ... ...onic trans- mission, in any way. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Jim... ...to the history of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten yea... ...who play golf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in ... ...sleading smattering of physical science. Most of them never learn to speak French. Heaven alone knows what they do with their brains! The British read... ...time is not far distant when insurrec- tionary leaders, calling themselves Socialists or Syndicalists, or what not, men with none of our experience, l... ... large regions of more specialised and individualised production that many Socialists nowadays are quite prepared to leave to the freer initiatives of... ...s as seekers after and pre- servers of the Normal Social Life. So, too, do Socialists of the William Morris type. The mind of William Morris was profo...
...MANKIND IN THE MAKING BY H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the M... ...ATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ... as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim... ...arly apt to master and retain languages, and people try and inoculate with French and German as Lord Herbert of Cherbury would have inocu- lated child... ...ll solemnly profess to “know” English and Latin, 84 Mankind in the Making French, German and Italian, perhaps Greek, who are in fact— beyond the limi... ...cate is seasoned with religious cant, lessons in piano-playing, lessons in French “made in En- gland,” mortarboard caps for the boys, and a high socia... ...ds a profounder revolu- tion, the control of private property. “We are all Socialists nowadays,” and it is needless, therefore, to argue here at any l... ...ty, and the ways in which existing excesses of property are to be reduced, Socialists differ enormously. There are cer- tain extreme expressions of So... ...ity and freedom for complete individual development to every citizen. Such socialists look not so much to the abolition of property as to the abolitio...