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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... seems to require broad generalizations. We are in one of those phases of experience which become cardinal in history ... seem to many watchful minds even more ominous to our social order than the war itself. What is happening to our race ...
... seems to require broad generalizations. We are in one of those phases of experience which become cardinal in history ... seem to many watchful minds even more ominous to our social order than the war itself. What is happening to our race ...
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... seems to be arrested; it will only be to accumulate under the influence of those ideas a fresh war-storm sufficiently destructive and disorganizing to restore the decadent process. Unless mankind can readjust its political and social ...
... seems to be arrested; it will only be to accumulate under the influence of those ideas a fresh war-storm sufficiently destructive and disorganizing to restore the decadent process. Unless mankind can readjust its political and social ...
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... seems possible, and that is the conscious, systematic reconstruction of human society to avert it. The world has been brought into one community, and the human mind and will may be able to recognize and adapt itself to this fact—in time ...
... seems possible, and that is the conscious, systematic reconstruction of human society to avert it. The world has been brought into one community, and the human mind and will may be able to recognize and adapt itself to this fact—in time ...
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... seem now prepared to admit. But upon the question of how and in what form a unity of purpose and a common control of human affairs is to be established, there is still a great and lamentable diversity of opinion and, as a consequence ...
... seem now prepared to admit. But upon the question of how and in what form a unity of purpose and a common control of human affairs is to be established, there is still a great and lamentable diversity of opinion and, as a consequence ...
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... seem to believe? Is he so patriotic as they make out? If mankind is to be saved from destruction there must be a world control, a world control means a world government, it is only another name for it, and manifestly that government ...
... seem to believe? Is he so patriotic as they make out? If mankind is to be saved from destruction there must be a world control, a world control means a world government, it is only another name for it, and manifestly that government ...
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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