The World of H.G. WellsM. Kennerley, 1915 - 189 lappuses |
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10. lappuse
... stand as a general diagnosis of our epoch , it is a remarkable con- fession with regard to his own place in it . For it signifies nothing less than that he has reached the limit of his own circle of ideas and finished his own pioneering ...
... stand as a general diagnosis of our epoch , it is a remarkable con- fession with regard to his own place in it . For it signifies nothing less than that he has reached the limit of his own circle of ideas and finished his own pioneering ...
11. lappuse
... stand alone . He is typical of an entire generation of Englishmen that knows not Oxford , a gen- eration which has been busy with all manner of significant movements and discoveries , too busy indeed to relate them to the common rea ...
... stand alone . He is typical of an entire generation of Englishmen that knows not Oxford , a gen- eration which has been busy with all manner of significant movements and discoveries , too busy indeed to relate them to the common rea ...
25. lappuse
... stand free of it , when you cease to be a part of it . And of all writers who have so immediately felt life I doubt if there has been one so detached as Wells . The mental detachment of his early tales is a detachment half scientific ...
... stand free of it , when you cease to be a part of it . And of all writers who have so immediately felt life I doubt if there has been one so detached as Wells . The mental detachment of his early tales is a detachment half scientific ...
56. lappuse
... stands for the whole waste of human stuff in a world which has not learned how to economize itself , whose every detail is accidental in a general chaotic ab- sence of social design . In this aspect Tono - Bungay is the most powerful ...
... stands for the whole waste of human stuff in a world which has not learned how to economize itself , whose every detail is accidental in a general chaotic ab- sence of social design . In this aspect Tono - Bungay is the most powerful ...
70. lappuse
... stands for ) . There is then a certain danger in the creative pragmatism of this particular time . If it ac- tually does penetrate to the head men of the world , if it is able to generate what I suppose may be called a " moral ...
... stands for ) . There is then a certain danger in the creative pragmatism of this particular time . If it ac- tually does penetrate to the head men of the world , if it is able to generate what I suppose may be called a " moral ...
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American Ann Veronica appears Arnold artistic beautiful become believe called chance character cialism collective conception confusion Conrad Consider constructive coöperation detachment discoveries economic economic determinism English ethical everything exist experience Fabian Society fact feel future George Ponderevo grow hand human nature ideal ideas imagination implies individual inevitably instinct intellectual irresponsible Jules Verne kind Kipps Lewisham light living Machiavelli machine Matthew Arnold mean ment merely method Modern Utopia moral muddled never novels organ pass passage Passionate Friends philosophy plain planet Plutarch point of view political Polly possible present primary world purpose quinine race reality relish Remington Republican romances Samurai says scheme scientific secondary world sense Sidney Webb Sleeper Awakes socialism socialist society sonal sort spirit of unrest Superman synthetic motive theory thought tion tissue and succession tive Tono-Bungay Trafford ture Wells's whole writings
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100. lappuse - Wells' laboratory to guide it. In order to get society upon a sound moral basis, says Mr. Wells, it is essential " to reject and set aside all abstract, refined, and intellectualized ideas as starting propositions, such ideas as right, liberty, happiness, duty, or beauty, and to hold fast to the fundamental assertion of life as a tissue and succession of births.