...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and several big... ...orgotten the chagrins and dreams of childhood. He was a prosperous west of England builder; including my father he had three nephews, and for each of ... ...as a new sort of ark rather elaborately done. Chicago, I must explain, was based upon my father’s de- scription of the pig slaughterings in that city ... ...e and more, as I grow older, the shadow of intolerance cast by reli- gious organisations. All my life has been darkened by irra- tional intolerance, b... ...er of the Local Government Board. We thought nothing of throwing religious organisations out of employment or superseding all the newspapers by freely... ...utset I was guilty of immense spiritual concealments, my very marriage was based, I see now, on a spiritual subterfuge; I hid moods from her, pretende... ...e old Liberal definition of liberty was a trifle uncritical. Privilege and legal restrictions are not the only enemies of liberty. An uneducated, unde...

...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES P... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and the Future by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ing things clear, counteracting hostile sugges- tion, the British official organisations are comparatively in- effective; but what is lacking official... ...t interesting and curious—one might almost write touching—feature of these organisations that they do not constitute a positive and de- fined propagan... ...t Soissons and put me in charge of Lieutenant de Tessin, whom I had met in England studying British social questions long before this war. After- ward... ...statesman, who was being adver- tised like a soap as the coming saviour of England. I was curious to meet him. I wanted to talk to him about all sorts... ...ic world state, just as the Hague T ribunal is the first faint sketch of a legal world state. The King of Italy has met Mr. Lubin’s idea with open han... ...ttlement or a judicial and not a treaty settlement, a settlement, that is, based upon some conception of what is right and necessary rather than upon ...

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...Y H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ible kingdom of Kent in which I write and that extremely inferior country, England, which was con- quered by the Normans and brought under the feudal ... ...in America, any party, any section, any group, any single politician even, based upon the manifest trend and purpose of life as it appears in the mode... ...ramme items, are ever pro- pounded to us in that way. I cannot see how, in England at any rate, a serious and perfectly honest man, holding as true th... ... of the existing charitable institutions.* *“I wonder whether there is any legal flaw in the second section of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children A... ...tional gifts and capacity, and fully capable of offspring. Civilization is based on the organized subdivision of labour, and, as the able lady who wri... ...h a real and present practice, as in the case of the musical, medical, and legal faculties of our uni- versities; it may be correlated with obsolete n... ...n phonetic science, and his time to study and open-minded discussion. Such organisations as the Association Phonétique Internationale, may be instance...

...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social...

...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wel... ...ost obscure mystery of all is reached: the mystery of the individual. Will England presently produce a military genius? or what will Mr. Belloc say th... ...me founder of the World Republic, some obstinate opponent of militarism or legalism, or the man who will first release atomic energy for human use, wi... ...as they are at present; the resistance of a gigantic network of Government organisations, interests, privileges, assumptions. Against this a headless,... ...e peace of the world demands, but in reality the Hague T ribunal is a mere legal automatic machine. It does nothing unless you set it in motion. It ha... ...n for peace may crystallise, have suggested the Pope and various religious organisations as a possible basis for the organisation of peace. But there ... ...that triumphed over Arianism, Manichseism, Gnosticism, and the like; it is based not on Christ, but on its creeds. Christ, indeed, is not even its sym... ... to fight a 1900 army with a 1914 army, and their whole opening scheme was based on the conviction that the Allies would not entrench. Somebody in tho...

...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... ...m to bid me note how a certain Mr. Holt was upon the ocean, coming back to England from a little excursion. He had left London last Saturday week at m... ...have adapted themselves. The whole plan and conception of human society is based on the rustic home and the needs and characteristics of the agricul- ... ...ing thing that has arisen, not a dead thing put together. Beneath the thin legal and administrative ties that hold it together lies the far more vital... ...ent. This is a psychological question, a matter of mental states. Feats of legal subtlety are inopportune, arithmetical exploits still more so. To eme... ...y and ostentatiously if those old class reliances on which our sys- tem is based are to be preserved and restored. We need before anything else a rest... ...sory Arbitration, or that any belated suppression of discussion and strike organisations by the law, will avert this gathering storm? The Spectacle of... ...actically no choice beyond the candidates appointed by the two great party organisations in the State. It is an electoral system that forbids absolute...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzi...

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...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania St... ... won. Nothing of the sort has been done for Mr. Henry James’s victories in England. In a world such as ours, so painful with all sorts of wonders, one... ...than that; it 20 Notes on Life and Letters stands on firmer ground, being based on the reality of forms and the observation of social phenomena, wher... ...ality of forms and the observation of social phenomena, whereas history is based on documents, and the read- ing of print and handwriting—on second-ha... ...m Heinemann. One day Mr. Pawling said to me: “Stephen Crane has arrived in England. I asked him if there was any- body he wanted to meet and he mentio... ...n, and remains, the only possible goal of our progress. The conceptions of legality, of larger patriotism, of national duties and aspirations have gro... ...every form of government; it was the inability to alter the forms of their legality, grown narrow and oppressive with the march of time. Every form of... ... one of the forms of national activity rather re- mote from the close-knit organisations of other in- dustries, a kind of toil not immediately under t...

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