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Excerpt: The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells.

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...15) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT by H. G. Wells (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) ON F... ... or an English peer. He meant an intensity, a clearness… . Nobility 4 The Research Magnificent for him was to get something out of his individual exi... .... He began with simple beliefs and fine attitudes and ended in a conscious research. If he could not get through by a stride, then it followed that he... ...yond the distant mountains. For this reason this story has been called The Research Magnificent. It was a real research, it was documented. In the roo... ...nd in all Benham’s story, if only it can be properly told, now sub- 6 The Research Magnificent dued, now loud and amazed and distressed, but always t... ...2 2 2 Benham did not go about the world telling people of this con- suming research. He was not the prophet or preacher of his idea. It was too living... ...inexplicable. His thoughts led him to the conviction that this magnificent research could not be, any more than any other research can be, a solitary ...

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...o know for what end they referred us to them. Although it may detain us a little in our research, it becomes necessary to clear this point, by seein...

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...y renewed, eddying on for ever and ever, save that now the impious hand of research was raised to overthrow this drowsy, gently humming, habitual, sun... ...unproductive naval and military preparations, must now, he declared, place research upon a new footing. ‘Where one man worked we will have a thousand.... ...a new faith in the young. The worthy man who forestalled the building of a research city for the English upon the Sussex downs by buying up a series o... ...s and noise and any distrac- tions, surgery had made for itself a house of research and a healing fastness. The building itself would have seemed very... ...solidity. And in a honey- comb of subtly lit apartments, were the spotless research benches, the operating tables, the instruments of brass, and fine ... .... Men and women came from all parts of the world for study or experimental research. They wore a common uniform of white and ate at long tables togeth... ...keep the records?’ ‘Not counting those. Of course, the present indexing of research is in itself a very big work, and it is only now that we are getti... ...sh sheets with new results that are brought to us by the aeroplanes of the Research Department. It is an index of knowledge that grows continually, an... ...’ said Karenin, ‘that index of human knowledge seemed an impossible thing. Research had produced a chaotic mountain of results, in a hundred languages...

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...It’s vital. Y ou see, I’m—I’m an investigator—I am engaged in a scientific research. I live -” he paused and seemed to think. “Just over there,” he sa... ... interested me. It oc- curred to me that I would like to know more of this research, not with any dishonest intention, but simply with an idea that to... ...eoretical grounds the whole time; When he said it was “the most important” research the world had ever seen, he simply meant it squared up so many the... ...t exist for me. His idea was that the profits I spoke of might go to endow research, but that, of course, was a matter we had to settle later. “That’s... ...compensa- tion, which would be extremely helpful to the prosecution of our researches. But if it is known that I caused this, there will be no public ... ...nts to know. I remember once, when I asked you why you conducted all these researches, you said you wanted your F .R.S., and to have the stuff called ... ... Wells ought to have something to look like a motive. Really you conducted researches because you had to. It’s your twist.” “Perhaps it is—” “It isn’t...

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...unication had little or no facility; the Church persecuted science and all research which was based on the analysis of natural phenomena. Persecu- tio... ... Divine Word writing upon all things here below. These constant and secret researches into matters occult gave to Etienne’s life the apparent somnolen...

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...ng up portieres in the doorways; to place wax candles, procured after some research, in unexpected situations; to dispose anomalous draperies over the... ...rm—she might in future very often be bored. While she was engaged in these researches, Felix Young was looking for Charlotte, to whom he had something...

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...now be declared that Professor Teufelsdrockh’s ac- quirements, patience of research, philosophic and even poetic vigor, are here made indisputably man... ...Oriental, Pelasgic, Scandinavian, Egyptian, Otaheitean, Ancient and Modern researches of every conceivable kind, he strives to give us in compressed s...

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...ning to his office—seems to have devoted some of his many leisure hours to researches as a local antiquarian, and other inquisitions of a similar na ... ...s easy to see the mother’s part in her. Would it be beyond a philosopher’s research, think ye, gentlemen, to analyse that child’s nature, and, from it...

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...stooping over charcoal furnaces, and inhaling unwholesome fumes during his researches in chemistry and alchemy. It was told of him, whether truly or n... ... the merits which will sustain him there. I made inquiries whether, in his researches about these parts, our mineralogist had found the three ‘Silver ...

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...f a whin stane, and he was so much exhausted by his feelings, and the vain researches which he made to discover the track of the ravishers, that a con... ...I. Some one way, some another—Do you know Where we may apprehend her? T he researches after Miss Vere were (for the sake of appearances, perhaps) resu... ...towards the Heugh-foot, to concert measures with Hobbie Elliot for farther researches after his bride, of whose restora- tion to her friends he was st... ...on around, and a small subterranean cave, probably sepulchral, which their researches had detected near the great granite pillar, served to conceal Ra...

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...now what to make of the matter. ‘Mr. Slug, so celebrated for his statistical researches, ar rived this afternoon by the four o’clock stage. His compl... ...ed correspondent in conclusion, ‘I cannot close my account of these gigantic researches and sublime and noble triumphs without repeating a Bon Mot o...

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...esslike way, to train teach- ers, build and equip schools, endow pedagogic research, and provide properly written school-books. These things it was fe... ...e of us got Fellowships in one year or another. There was Benton who had a Research Fellowship and went to Tubingen, there was Esmeer and myself who b... ... the work as no one had ever hitherto dreamt of doing it. They planned the research on a thoroughly satisfy- ing scale, and arranged their lives almos... ...“types” that lived in the neighbourhood. One invaded type, resentful under research, described them with a dreadful aptness as Donna Quixote and Sanch... ...s and tech- nical efficiency. They are prepared to spend public money upon research, upon ports and harbours and public com- munications, upon sanitat... ...man thought, the vivider utilisation of experience and the invigoration of research—and whatever one does in human affairs has or lacks value as it he... ...expression of life through art and literature, and its exploration through research. We want to make the best and finest thought accessible to every o... ...and sustain an enormous free criticism, without which art, literature, and research alike degenerate into tradition or imposture. Then all the other p... ...rectly affected the Church, public habits of thought, education, organised research, literature, and the channels of general discussion. I had to ask ...

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...enevolence beams through the extreme power of his arguments, and the great research of his inquiry into all the primitive writings is a most extraordi... ...ing some Hebrew nearly every day, and Lightfoot on the Galatians, Tyler’s “Researches into the Early History of Mankind,” Dollinger’s “First Ages of t...

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...lord. The King did not help more but less than he had done before in Hal’s researches and wonderings about natural ob- jects; he had forgotten the phi... ...formation on natural science, and could carry him on much farther in these researches than his hermit, though he always maintained that the royal anch...

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... and then continued: “Are you fa- miliar with the idea of the Endowment of Research?” “Of Research?” I was at sea a moment. “I give you Lady Coxon’s p...

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...ice which I might enlarge, and so get a peep at the consecrated ground. My researches were vain, for the boards were well joined and strongly nailed. ... ...ish services, not doubt- ing that I should meet her at one of them. All my researches were absolutely fruitless; my security on the last point was pro...

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...ght be made, as to its structure and arrangement, the sub- ject of learned researches comparable to those of Cuvier on the animals discovered in the c...

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... us of the interest of the age in that subject, stimulated no doubt by the researches of Eratosthenes and others. The language is that of the conventi...