The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of MankindThe Floating Press, 1 de mar. de 2012 - 146 páginas Though today best remembered as a science fiction writer, H.G. Wells was a keen observer of social and geopolitical trends who mined his era's headlines as fodder for his creative work. The writer was deeply shaken by the destruction and death wrought by World War I, and in this volume of passionate essays and observations, Wells lays out his suggestions for avoiding global conflict in the future. |
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... to analyse in its bearing upon our social and political ideas. In 1914 the European Great Powers resorted to war, as they had resorted to war on many previous occasions, to decide certain open issues. This war flamed out with an.
... to analyse in its bearing upon our social and political ideas. In 1914 the European Great Powers resorted to war, as they had resorted to war on many previous occasions, to decide certain open issues. This war flamed out with an.
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... idea in all human societies up to the present time; few will be found to deny it. Political institutions have very largely developed in relation to the idea of war; defence and aggression have shaped the outer form of every state in the ...
... idea in all human societies up to the present time; few will be found to deny it. Political institutions have very largely developed in relation to the idea of war; defence and aggression have shaped the outer form of every state in the ...
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... ideas a fresh war-storm sufficiently destructive and disorganizing to restore the decadent process. Unless mankind can readjust its political and social ideas to this essential new fact of its enormously enlarged powers; unless it can ...
... ideas a fresh war-storm sufficiently destructive and disorganizing to restore the decadent process. Unless mankind can readjust its political and social ideas to this essential new fact of its enormously enlarged powers; unless it can ...
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... idea; in its first phase in 1918; before the weakening off and disillusionment of the Versailles Conference. Just for a little while it seemed that President Wilson stood for a new order of things in the world; that he had the wisdom ...
... idea; in its first phase in 1918; before the weakening off and disillusionment of the Versailles Conference. Just for a little while it seemed that President Wilson stood for a new order of things in the world; that he had the wisdom ...
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... idea of one peace of justice throughout the earth in China and Bokhara and the Indian bazaars, in Iceland and ... ideas throughout the world quite beyond any previous experience. It demonstrated that the generality of men are as capable ...
... idea of one peace of justice throughout the earth in China and Bokhara and the Indian bazaars, in Iceland and ... ideas throughout the world quite beyond any previous experience. It demonstrated that the generality of men are as capable ...
Conteúdo
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III The Enlargement of Patriotism to a World State | 54 |
IV The Bible of Civilization Part One | 76 |
V The Bible of Civilization Part Two | 93 |
VI The Schooling of the World | 110 |
VII College Newspaper and Book | 131 |
VIII The Envoy | 153 |
Endnotes | 158 |
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