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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... vast and vague though they are, we must each one of us have before we can take an intelligent interest or cast an effective vote in foreign affairs. Even though a man formulate no definite answer, he must still have an implicit ...
... vast and vague though they are, we must each one of us have before we can take an intelligent interest or cast an effective vote in foreign affairs. Even though a man formulate no definite answer, he must still have an implicit ...
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... vast powers over nature which have been given to them, and which will certainly be their destruction if their purposes remain divergent and conflicting, will then be the means by which they may set up a new order of as yet scarcely ...
... vast powers over nature which have been given to them, and which will certainly be their destruction if their purposes remain divergent and conflicting, will then be the means by which they may set up a new order of as yet scarcely ...
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... vast enlargement of ideas, and for something very like a change of heart in hundreds of millions of human beings. But then we are dealing with the fate of the entire species. We are discussing the prevention of wars, disorders ...
... vast enlargement of ideas, and for something very like a change of heart in hundreds of millions of human beings. But then we are dealing with the fate of the entire species. We are discussing the prevention of wars, disorders ...
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... vast areas of the world's surface. Yet while the stir for world unity begins now simultaneously in many countries and many groups of people, those two propagandas each radiated from a single centre and were in the first instance the ...
... vast areas of the world's surface. Yet while the stir for world unity begins now simultaneously in many countries and many groups of people, those two propagandas each radiated from a single centre and were in the first instance the ...
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... vast multitudes. His smallest acts have been observed with premeditated admiration, his lightest words recorded. He is not now a boy, he saw something of the great war, even if his exalted position denied him any large share of its ...
... vast multitudes. His smallest acts have been observed with premeditated admiration, his lightest words recorded. He is not now a boy, he saw something of the great war, even if his exalted position denied him any large share of its ...
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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