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

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...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 What... ...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? ... ... who will.” It is surely as interesting that presently some founder of the World Republic, some obstinate opponent of militarism or legalism, or the m... ...bvious outrages upon that phantom of a world-conscience—international law. Pacificists in their search for some definite starting-point, 11 H G Wells... ...lationships than has any recruit drilling in England, or any captain on an ocean liner, or any engineer in charge of a going engine. We are all, indee... ...a greater confidence and draw our net of prob- abilities a little tighter. II. II. II. II. II. THE END OF THE END OF THE END OF THE END OF THE END OF ... ...ine of supplies, and Bloch is back upon his pedestal so far as the Eastern theatre goes. Bloch has been equally justified in the Anglo-French at- temp...

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...Excerpt: One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than believe in him. But in the m...

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...TAR ...................................................................................................................................... 20 A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON ................................................................................................... 31 THE CONE ......................................................................................................

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...THE DOOR IN THE WALL And Other Stories BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Door in t... ...THE DOOR IN THE WALL And Other Stories BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Door in the ... ...on The Door in the Wall and other stories by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...pery of the dinner we had shared, making them for the time a bright little world quite cut off from every-day realities, I saw it all as frankly incre... ...!” “I didn’t show any signs did I in those days of having a secret dream?” II II II II II He looked up with a sudden smile. “Did you ever play North-W... ... said. The next day at noon—punctual to the minute, he entered his lecture theatre, put his hat on the end of the table as his habit was, and carefull... ...ellying sails, crowded with men and living creatures, were standing out to ocean and the north. For already the warning of the master mathematician ha... ...ed the sea. So the star, with the wan moon in its wake, marched across the Pacific, trailed the thunderstorms like the hem of a robe, 28 The Door in ... ...t a private man.’ “‘Yes,’ he answered. ‘But have you thought?—this talk of war, these reckless challenges, these wild aggressions—’ “I stood up. “‘No,...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...

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...RODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN BACILLUS......

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...The Country of the Blind And Other Stories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country o... ...The Country of the Blind And Other Stories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of t... ... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...or less relevant to that initial nucleus. Little men in canoes upon sunlit oceans would come float- ing out of nothingness, incubating the eggs of pre... ...uburban gardens; I would discover I was peering into remote and mysterious worlds ruled by an or- der logical indeed but other than our common sanity.... ...—in a different climate.” I shook his arm. “Davidson,” I cried, “wake up!” II II II II II IT WAS JUST THEN that Boyce came in. So soon as he spoke Dav... ...s if inadvertently, Pawkins’ revision as a “miracle of ineptitude.” It was war to the knife. However, it would scarcely interest the reader to detail ... ...deed, I had the happiest prospects a young man could have. I never went to theatres in those days. My Aunt Charlotte before she died had told me not t... ...ed the sea. So the star, with the wan moon in its wake, marched across the Pacific, trailed the thunder-storms like the hem of a robe, and the growing...

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...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H... ...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...ORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Engli... ...D Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishm... ...nd mechanical contrivance. I am reminded again of the days during the Boer war, when one realised that it had never occurred to our happy-go-lucky Arm... ...there came a tele- gram 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 l... ...ir renewal. I have tried to suggest that, whatever im- mediate devices for pacification might be employed, the only way to a better understanding and ... ...o come. It was not in the Norman Conquest, not in the flight of King James II, nor the overthrow of Napoleon; it is here and now. It falls to them to ... ...riters and artists, for example, nor the stage—though it may build and own theatres—the tailor, the dressmaker, the restaurant cook, an enormous multi...