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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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...s A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...n better ordered, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they t... ...most mastered by this white passion of statecraft, and in nearly every one who reads and thinks you could find, I suspect, some sort of answering resp... ...se correspondence with Dionysius of Syracuse has perished; or to Confucius who travelled China in search of a Prince he might instruct, with lapses an... ...cades before him, saw only one method by which a thinking man, himself not powerful, might do the work of state building, and that was by seizing the ... ...er intensive cul- ture a singularly desolate and disorderly appearance. He took steps towards the diversion of our house drain under the influence of ... ...th suitably high-minded and sor- rowful varieties of conifer. A stonemason took one of the earlier villas with a front garden at the end of the High S... ...cature of him as an artful rabbit-witted person intent only on keeping his leadership, in spite of the vigor- ous attempts of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain t... ... be- longed was very ignorant of the traditions and qualities of our older leaders, and quite out of touch with the mass of the party. For a time Parl...

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Excerpt: The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells.

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...ENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Thi... ...CY CY 1 1 1 1 1 THE STORY OF William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession ... ... story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession of his imagination quite early in life, it grew with him an... ...ast moment of his adventurous life. He belonged to that fortunate minority who are indepen- dent of daily necessities, so that he was free to go about... ...appetites and sloths and habits and blindnesses, but so far as it is in my power to release myself I will escape to this… .” 8 The Research Magnifice... ...iscovered these theological controver- sies in some mysterious way, and he took upon himself to talk at Benham and Prothero. He treated them to the co... ... “Fear,” he wrote, “is the foremost and most persistent of the shepherding powers that keep us in the safe fold, that drive us back to the beaten trac... ...r ministerial majority to the splitting point, and most of the old Liberal leaders had died off during the years of exile. The party was no longer dom... ...s, though it lasted only two or three weeks, gave her a sense of power and leadership for which she had been struggling instinctively ever since they ...

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Excerpt: When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Thi... ...or the run of people. It’s hard to explain. I dare not take … sufficiently powerful drugs.” “That makes it difficult,” said Isbister. He stood helples... ...gue. He rubbed his fore- head with a lean hand. He resumed speech like one who talks to himself. “I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through ... ...wandering through a world in which I have no part. I am wifeless—childless—who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life? I ... ...e was employment the bare thought of which was righteous self-applause. He took possession forthwith. It seemed to him that the first need of this exh... ...ciga- rette was put down unlit. The man was certainly very still. Isbister took up the portfolio, opened it, put it down, hesi- tated, seemed about to... ...ople had spoken of the Council with suggestions of a vague universality of power. And they had spoken of the Sleeper; it had not really struck him viv... ...floor of the aisle. He had already learnt from Lincoln that these were the leaders of existing London society; almost every person there that night wa... ...of the earth. No one of any ability is organising against us. They have no leaders—only the sectional leaders of the secret society we organised befor...

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...THE DOOR IN THE WALL And Other Stories BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Doo... ...ht and intensified. It reminds me of what a woman once said of him—a woman who had loved him greatly. “Suddenly,” she said, “the interest goes out of ... ...care of a nurs- ery governess. His father was a stern, preoccupied lawyer, who gave him little attention, and expected great things of him. For all hi... ...all the particular neglect that enabled him to get away, nor the course he took among the West Kensington roads. All that had faded among the incurabl... ...aring a soft long robe of pale purple, who carried a book and beckoned and took me aside with her into a gallery above a hall—though my playmates were... ...rd from Gurker, but was hampered by Ralphs’ presence. I was using the best power of my brain to keep that light and careless talk not too obviously di... ... and agitation. It was a vast weltering world, and at last I had a sort of leadership against the Gang—you know it was called the Gang—a sort of compr... ...enegade from duty that the daylight clearness of what I ought to do had no power at all to touch my will. My will was to live, to gather pleasures and... ...ment passed. “It was my last chance. Even as we went to and fro there, the leaders of the south and east were gathering their resolve, 46 The Door in...

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...of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this ...

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...The Country of the Blind And Other Stories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Cou... ..................................................................213 THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES.........................................224 A VISIO... ...exacting forms. It was my friend Mr. 6 The Country of the Blind C.L. Hind who set that spring going. He urged me to write short stories for the Pall ... ...f he ain’t, ma’am, he says it won’t be for want of trying. Mr. Maynard has took a great fancy to him.” “He is getting on, Jane,” said my wife. “Yes, m... ...ld her he was engaged to me.” “Dear me, Jane, did you? What did they do?” “Took no more notice of me than if I was dirt. So I told her she should suff... ...particles of life that one must needs stain and examine with the high- est powers of the microscope even to see, and that one can neither smell nor ta... ...rd.” Holroyd was proud of his big dynamo, and expatiated upon its size and power to Azuma-zi until heaven knows what odd currents of thought that and ... ...at, shallow, and exceed- ingly effective personalities about the socialist leaders, until Hill hated Bernard Shaw’s graceful egotisms, William Morris’... ... world a better place to live in. He took Bradlaugh and John Burns for his leaders and models, poor, even impecunious, great men. But Miss Haysman tho...