...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publicatio... ...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...uture: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...d confuse and divide the enemy, but to get a real under- standing with the peoples and spirits of a number of differ- ent nations, an understanding th... ...rease and become a fruitful and permanent understanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, t... ...io and saw the white-faced inn at which Napoleon dis- membered the ancient republic of V enice and bartered away this essential part of Italy into for... ...atter of Pecunia non olet; there used to be fusses about European loans in China. And one of the favourite themes of British fiction and drama before ... ...me share in the indepen- dence of America, that there is a sacred cause in republican- ism, that there are grounds for a peculiar sympathy between Fra...

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION ... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ill.” It is surely as interesting that presently some founder of the World Republic, some obstinate opponent of militarism or legalism, or the man who... ..., and how will it affect our ways of living?” It is a question of “How are people going to take these obvi- ous things—waste of the world’s resources,... ...rstanding and overcoming of the difficulties involved. There are many more people, and there is much more intel- ligence concentrated upon the manufac... ...o keep the peace in the Balkans and Asia, to establish a relationship with China, and organise joint and several arbitration arrangements with America... ...in reality. It is on record that the Roman senate still thought Rome was a republic in the third century of the Christian era. It is noth- ing wonderf...

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...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...Y H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publicat... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...rth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the a... ...thing here which was not the possible thought of great multitudes of other people, and capable of becoming the common thought of mankind. One writes i... ...t will give a monstrous importance to the illiterate millions of India and China. Ingenious statistical schemes have been framed in which the number o... ...old-fashioned King and more of the modern President about it than the most republican-minded of us could have anticipated. For the first time in a Kin... ...purely party lines. He is the select man of the Democratic half, or of the Republican half of the nation. He is not the select man of the whole nation...

...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essen...

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Edi- tor, nor anyo... .............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ...back that migrations on a far huger scale from India into Africa, and from China and Japan into Australia and America are prevented. All the indicatio... ...s- sible social fragmentation. The transport service is to be a democratic republic, the mines are to be a democratic re- public, every great industry... ... to be a democratic re- public, every great industry is to be a democratic republic 67 H. G . Wells within the State; our community is to become a co...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices i...

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