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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...ed seamen, adventurers like Clive, ec- centrics like Gordon, invalids like Rhodes. It has been made, in spite of authority and officialdom, as no othe... ...hem that the whole next 34 An Englishman Looks at the World generation of Canadians has drawn its ideas mainly from American publications, that India... ...eteenth-century modernism with the hatred natural to a man of considerable scholarship and in- tense aesthetic sensibilities. His mind turned, exactly... ...re laboratories, more scholar- ships out of the general mass of elementary scholars, a quasi- military discipline in our colleges and a great array of... ... with these a big proportion—a proportion we may increase steadily—of keen scholarship men from the elementary schools. Such a braced-up class as we s... ...e French Catholic population of Louisiana, the Irish Catholics, the French-Canadians who are now ousting the sterile New Englander from New England, t...

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