...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...Y H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publicat... ... 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... ...rth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...old-fashioned King and more of the modern President about it than the most republican-minded of us could have anticipated. For the first time in a Kin... ...nd urgent merely European necessities, a patch-up that has been made quasi-democratic in a series of after- thoughts, the American Constitution is a r... ...yed it has to be fought on purely party lines. He is the select man of the Democratic half, or of the Republican half of the nation. He is not the sel... ... I put a query) of the plaintiff nation in the defendant state, aggressive military or naval preparation, disorder spreading over the frontier, trespa... ...fact, if it is to be a working reality, have power to define and limit the military and naval and aerial equipment of every country in the world. This...

...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, essen...

...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION ... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...s reached: the mystery of the individual. Will England presently produce a military genius? or what will Mr. Belloc say the day after to-morrow? The m... ...ill.” It is surely as interesting that presently some founder of the World Republic, some obstinate opponent of militarism or legalism, or the man who... ... Brighton before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if effective military aviation or aerial fighting would be possible before 1950, which i... ...tically to rule Great Britain, and who are powerful and influential in all democratic countries. In order to secure a certain independence and integri... ...“go as you please,” or fail. And we find the affairs of nearly every great democratic State in the hands of a class of men not specially adapted to an...

Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

...assics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...d, is the cardinal assumption of all Utopian speculations old and new; the Republic and Laws of Plato, and More’s Utopia, Howells’ implicit Altruria, ... ...ire, or otherwise alienated them from his intimate self. A thorough-going, Democratic Socialist will 61 H G Wells no doubt be inclined at first to ob... ...ping about nation- ality, and so the ugly fortifications, the barracks and military defilements of the earthly vale of Urseren will be wanting. Instea... ...a. I am inclined to imagine farming done by tenant associations, by little democratic unlimited liability companies working 135 H G Wells under elect... ...ning, he had to hold the qualifica- tion for a doctor, for a lawyer, for a military officer, or an engineer, or teacher, or have painted acceptable pi...

... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furn... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ... ELF I S ING One’s self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not ... ...ger and nimbler babes. (This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.) To any one dying, thither I speed and twist the knob of the d... ...hall be fathers in their turns, In him the start of populous states and rich republics, Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and... ... torchlight procession! The dense brigade bound for the war, with high piled military wagons following; People, endless, streaming, with strong voices... ...ion grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students, born of thee, Thee in thy democratic fetes en masse, thy high original festivals, operas, lecturers...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of ...

...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

...E OF THE BEAGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ssed by Humboldt.* At the cataracts of the great rivers Orinoco, Nile, and Congo, the syen- itic rocks are coated by a black substance, appearing as i... ...al habits; for tyranny seems as yet better adapted to these countries than republicanism. The governor’s favourite occupation is hunting Indians: a sh... ... country will have to learn, like every other South American state, that a republic cannot succeed till it contains a certain body of men imbued with ... ...e. On the bare reception of this, the Governor, ministers, and part of the military, to the number of some hundreds, fled from the city. The rebels en... ...he country full of ill-paid turbulent officers, the people yet hope that a democratic form of govern- ment can succeed! On first entering society in t...

Excerpt: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.