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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... world saw in 1914-18 is not likely to recur again for a considerable time because of the shock inflicted by it upon social stability. There may be spasmodic wars with improvised and scanty supplies ... world-wide disease brought to it lO.
... world saw in 1914-18 is not likely to recur again for a considerable time because of the shock inflicted by it upon social stability. There may be spasmodic wars with improvised and scanty supplies ... world-wide disease brought to it lO.
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The Probable Future of Mankind H. G. Wells. animal antagonist, or through some world-wide disease brought to it perhaps by rats and dogs and insects and what not, who may be destined to be heirs to the rusting and mouldering ruins of the ...
The Probable Future of Mankind H. G. Wells. animal antagonist, or through some world-wide disease brought to it perhaps by rats and dogs and insects and what not, who may be destined to be heirs to the rusting and mouldering ruins of the ...
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... world, unless the ever more violent and disastrous incidence of war can be averted, unless some common control can ... wide political organ is needed, it does not follow that a so-called League of Nations without representative sanctions, ...
... world, unless the ever more violent and disastrous incidence of war can be averted, unless some common control can ... wide political organ is needed, it does not follow that a so-called League of Nations without representative sanctions, ...
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... earth in China and Bokhara and the Indian bazaars, in Iceland and Basutoland and Ireland ... world quite beyond any previous experience. It demonstrated that the ... wide creative effort afoot now in which men and women by the million are ...
... earth in China and Bokhara and the Indian bazaars, in Iceland and Basutoland and Ireland ... world quite beyond any previous experience. It demonstrated that the ... wide creative effort afoot now in which men and women by the million are ...
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... world-wide action impossible at the present time; in a world-wide common vision of the history and destinies of the race. On that as a basis; and on that alone; can a world control be organized and maintained. The effort demanded from ...
... world-wide action impossible at the present time; in a world-wide common vision of the history and destinies of the race. On that as a basis; and on that alone; can a world control be organized and maintained. The effort demanded from ...
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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