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...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 an...

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... of fluctuating legislation, this committee, except for an extremely short list of absolute prohibitions, would decide to leave matters almost exactly... ...u will add “sanity.” And the reader of Mr. Archdall Reid will round up the list with “immunity” from dipsoma- nia and all contagious diseases. “Let us... ...tegrity, let the curious inquirer seek an account of the Tasmanian, or the Australian, or the Polynesian before “sophistication” came. The very existe... ... It would be far less party bound and far less mercenary than the American Senate, and far more intelligent and capable than the British House of Lord... ...eak with the present condi- tion of things. The conversion of the American Senate would be a more difficult matter, because the method of appoint- men... ...cil. The Jury system would probably be of very great value in making these appointments. That is a rough sketch of a possible scheme—presented in the ...

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...Excerpt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he ...

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...IES PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ek word for superstition. In fact, he had evidently read little beyond the list of names in Shakspeare; yet there is proof enough that the irresistibl... ...s his maternal grandfather had been returned by the commissioners in their list of the Warwickshire gentry; he was there styled Robert Arden, Esq., of... ...he far Atlantic, the multitude of the isles, and the generations unborn in Australian climes, even to the realms of the rising sun (the greek: anatola... ...lost 79 Thomas de Quincey to one against whom the courts, the pulpit, the senate, the universities, were closed. Nay, by possibility worse than lost;... ...re were grievances enough; but, in addition to these, the comte’s official appointments drew upon him a weight of daily business, which kept the house... ...r. It cannot interest an English reader to see the dates of his successive appointments. It is enough to know that they soon raised him to as high a s... ...his breakfast equipage complete without the latest re- port from the great senate that sat in London. Hence we need not be astonished that German and ...

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...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Of course it is generally known that in the Capitol is the chamber of the Senate, that of the House of Repre- sentatives, and the Supreme Judicial Co... ...eum of models of all patents taken out. I wandered through it, gazing with listless eye now upon this and now upon that; but to me, in my igno- rance,... ...nded. But our stern commander, for we were on a government boat, would not listen to their prayers, but carried us instead on board the “Pensacola,” a... ...tions to the original plan having been made. The two chambers— that of the Senate and the Representatives—are in the two new wings, on the middle or w... ... respects to the Governor, and found him briskly employed in arranging the appointments of officers. All the regimental appointments to the volunteer ... ...mode of promotion was found neces- sary. As far as I could understand, the appointments were in the hands of the State Governor, who however was expec... ...all her books direct from London, as do the West Indies. Whether or no the Australian colonies have as yet learned to reprint our books I have never l...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists...

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...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ant demo- cratic air; one sovereign state, one vote. Now let us run over a list of sovereign states and see to what this leads us. We find our list in... ...esident is elected on the same register of voters as that which elects the Senate and Congress, and at the same time. But I suppose if we are to give ... ...al conspiracy against freedom, and the League cannot tolerate merely court appointments. If courts are to exist anywhere in the new world of the futur... ...le prod- ucts in the world. I will not go in detail over the items of this list, because the reader can fill in the essentials of the argu- ment from ... ...ill do so. The Times has styled the crown the “golden link” of the empire. Australians and Canadians, it was argued, had little love for the motherlan... ...onstrated, the United States have no great occasion for pride. Neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives seem to rise above the level of the... ... and brilliant exploits at question time. He has been thinking of jobs and appointments, of whether Mr. Asquith is likely to “come back” and how far i...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

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...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...it is sometimes quite as near; and in any case it ought to be respectfully listened to, in stead of being, as it is, not merely turned away from, but... ...elongs to the person who takes most pains with it. The bad measures or bad appointments of a minister may be checked by Parliament; and the interest o... ...e government and of all other inter ests and opinions, can compel them to listen, and either com ply, or state clearly why they do not, is in itself... ...er of an open aristocracy like our own. But the really governing body, the Senate, was in exclusively composed of persons who had exercised pub lic f... ...responsibility in case of incapacity and failure. When once members of the Senate, their lives were pledged to the conduct of public affairs; they wer... ...e whole of the unappropriated lands in the regions behind our American and Australian colonies have been given up to the uncontrolled disposal of the ... ...hich one third was British American, and an other third South African and Australian. Yet to this it must come if there were any thing like fair or e...