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...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War... ...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and the Future by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...rgely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these variou... ...matic and logical interpretation. The caricatures in the French shops show civilisation (and particularly Marianne) in conflict with a huge and hugely... ...peace that would be no more than a breathing time for a fresh outrage upon civilisation, and who would even make heroes of the crazy young assassins o... ...n in the trenches suddenly confronted by so rare a beast as a middle- aged civilian with an enquiring expression, to feel oneself something of a spect... ...ut out a bed of begonias. In Paris I met a charming 50 War and the Future American writer, the wife of a French artist, the lady who wrote My House o... ...nally into the writer’s study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American pap...

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...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Rudyard Kipling American Notes by Rudyard Kipling Intr Intr Intr Intr Introduction oduction... ..., com- fort, and despatch. Also, there was not a single American vessel of war in the harbor. This may sound bloodthirsty; but remember, I had come wi... ...ightened and made aware that they also were the heirs of all the ages, and civilized after all. There appeared before me an affable stranger of prepos... ...r, more spinous, and even more azure than any Indian variety. Tales of the war I heard told by an ex-officer of the South over his evening drink to a ... ...across the snowy table-cloths dragged the corpse of every man slain in the Civil War, and hurled defiance at “our natural enemy” (England, so please y... ... the snowy table-cloths dragged the corpse of every man slain in the Civil War, and hurled defiance at “our natural enemy” (England, so please you), “... ...the character of the factory. Inside, on a floor ninety by forty, the most civilized and murderous of machinery. Outside, three footsteps, the thick-g...

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...an by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The American by Henry James 1877 CHAPTER I O n a brilliant day in May, in the y... ...ething of that sort. We were very young.” “It was in St. Louis, during the war. You were in the army.” “Oh no, not I! But you were.” “I believe I was.... ... needless to introduce to the reader in detail. Newman had come out of the war with a brevet of briga- dier-general, an honor which in this case—witho... ...u wear a blanket and feathers. There are different shades.” “I am a highly civilized man,” said Newman. “I stick to that. If you don’t believe it, I s... ..., he was a palpable and smoothly-rounded unit in that picturesque Parisian civili- zation which offered our hero so much easy entertain- ment and prop... ...treme satisfaction in the reappearance of this familiar symbol of American civilization; but he was also greatly struck with the beautiful Gothic towe... ...he young man. “But Mrs. Tristram told me you had been in the army— in your war,” said Madame de Cintre. “Yes, but that is not business!” said Newman. ...

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...ir by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The War in the Air by H. G. Wells [Herbert George Wells] PREF PREF PREF PREF PR... ... his War and the Future, that if mankind goes on with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World f... ...paper and cane as Tom had done, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve... ...t was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways. “If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this,” he said impressively to his brother, “the Brit... ...r and cigarette shop opposite dis- played such placards as this:— REPORTED AMERICAN ULTIMATUM. BRITAIN MUST FIGHT. OUR INFATUATED WAR OFFICE STILL REF... ... was a vulgar little creature, the sort of pert, limited soul that the old civilisation of the early twentieth century produced by the million in ever... ...own, but now he was beginning to realise that the military rather than the civil arm was concerned about him. He was quite involuntarily playing that ...

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...c transmission, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...the State; it employs all the savings of surplus income that the unrest of civil enterprise leaves idle; it has an effect of creating property by a pr... ...come up for a moral judgment, on whose verdict the whole future of Western civilisation depends. If they cannot achieve a considerable, an unprecedent... ...ficials, any “conscription” of land or railways or what not for the urgent civil needs of the State. They will have fight- ing against these tendencie...

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...which o’er them shed tears feelingly and fast. “His life was one long war with self-sought foes, Or friends by him self-banished; for his mi... ...ent, therefore, to visit this M. de Pontverre, and was received with great civility. He spoke of the heresy of Geneva, declaimed on the au- thority of... ...is, my conduct was pre- determined, I was resolved not to return. Madam de War- rens, seeing her endeavors would be fruitless, became less explicit, a... ...some one prevented me. The good bishop, who that day was visiting Madam de War- rens, did not remain idle; he took her into the garden, where they wen... ...ble youth, and treated me with great friend- 122 The Confessions ship and civility. We were well regaled and well lodged: M. Reydelet scarcely knew h... ...e chaos of fear and impatience, dreading what I desired, and studying some civil pretext to evade my happiness. Let the warmth of my constitution be r... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,...

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...n in an enemy’s possession since the United States became a nation. In the war of 1812 it fell into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third ... ...ountry knee deep into the mud, wading through snipe grounds, look- ing for civilization where none exists. All these avenues have a slanting direction... ... in 1815, the former Capitol having been de- stroyed by the English in the war of 1812-13. It was then finished according to the original plan, with a... ...se instructions, were carefully followed. Indeed, nothing could exceed the civility of the officials within; but so also nothing can exceed the barbar... ...aise at Washington a vast obelisk to the memory of Washington—the first in war and first in peace, as the country is proud to call him. This obelisk i... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...f ambition and ostentation, and that he had the good sense to be guided in civil matters by men who had studied the laws of social life and the theori... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ...

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... CE CE CE CE 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 circulat... ...ay many men, essen- tially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent w... ...broken mass of mental habit and public tradition. While we talked of this “war to end war,” the diplomatists of the Powers al- lied against Germany we... ...reatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a hal... ...etter in Marburg’s “League of Nations,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgi... ...rs of discussion that the point was conceded; it was indeed only after the Civil War that the implications were fully established, that there resided ... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa... ...ht by that very division. No one can vie with me in my appreciation of the civiliza- tion of Switzerland, Sweden, or Holland, but the plain fact of th... ...ns in the idea, and, since they have got to be digested sooner or later if civilization is not to collapse, there is no reason why we should not begin...

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...X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: THE THE THE THE THE W W W W WAR A AR A AR A AR A AR AGAIN GAIN GAIN GAIN GAIN ............................ ... and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christ- mas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace.... ...n Sisson, this was home, this was Christmas: the unspeakably familiar. The war over, nothing was changed. Yet everything changed. The scullery in whic... ...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...ing that proud, rather stiff bend of her head was. She had some aboriginal American in her blood. But as she looked, she pursed her mouth. The artist ... ...n’t you think it all works out rather stupid and unsatisfying?” “Ah, but a civil war would be different. I’ve no interest in fighting Germans. But a c... ... don’t agree,” cried Josephine. “You’d feel you were doing something, in a civil war.” “Pulling the house down,” said Lilly. “Yes,” she cried. “Don’t ... ...aught: that warm and luxurious house. Heaven bless us, we who want to save civilisation. We had better make up our minds what of it we want to save. T...

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...call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some... ... the delicate dressing of the old knight, came on him almost like gracious civilities. There was no love lost between the Chevalier and the chap- lain... ...resence at the table; and Berenger, though his kinsman’s patronage secured civil treatment, felt much out of his element, confused, unable to take par... ... Roy,’ but ‘Vive l’Amiral,’ and more than once the cry was added, ‘Spanish war, or civil war!’ The heart of France was, if not with the Reformed, at l... ...ut ‘Vive l’Amiral,’ and more than once the cry was added, ‘Spanish war, or civil war!’ The heart of France was, if not with the Reformed, at least aga... ...g himself from the thraldom of his mother, and engag- ing the country in a war against Philip II. Sidney listened, but Berenger chafed, feeling only t... ...in general the scum of the nation—were apt to comport themselves more like American buccaneers than like champions of any form of religion. La Sableri...

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...tou, had served the Bourbon cause with intelligence and bravery during the war in La V endee against the Repub- lic. After having escaped all the dang... ... of the Catholic regiments. He discovered, a little late, that he had made war at his own cost. Towards the end of the evening he thought he might ven... ...l system, few persons had very precise ideas of the peaceful domain of the civil service, where astute favorites managed to find an equiva- lent for t... ...om he visited, how few favorable openings would henceforth be offered by a civil or military career. He urged mothers to give their boys a start in in... ...able corpulence were inca- pable of sentiment, bad husbands, and unfit for civilized society. Though it is esteemed a beauty in the East, to be fat se... ...anat, the Re- ceiver-General’s wife, spoke with some enthusiasm of a young American owning an immense fortune, who had fallen pas- sionately in love w...

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...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...cleared off. He would have seen that, at the end of the most destruc- tive civil war that ever occurred, when animosities of the bitterest sort had ba... ...d off. He would have seen that, at the end of the most destruc- tive civil war that ever occurred, when animosities of the bitterest sort had banished... ..., about the power of the United States to withstand the severest shocks of civil war. Could he have traced the further course of events until they ope... ...t the power of the United States to withstand the severest shocks of civil war. Could he have traced the further course of events until they open the ... ...c opinion formed in the independent expres- sions of towns and other small civil districts that is the real conservatism of free government. It is equ... ... was a step towards the universal level. The taste for luxury, the love of war, the sway of fashion, and the most superficial as well as the deepest p...

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... and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but the Combine that had shivered beneath his knife gave him all the honours of war: Gunsberg himself, full of condolences, came to the steamer and filled the Chapins? suite of cabins with overwhelming flower-works....

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...he Combine that had shivered beneath his knife gave him all the honours of war: Gunsberg himself, full of condolences, came to the steamer and filled ... ...ve a good time in her. You were—” “Well, I discovered I was too much of an American to be content to be a rich man’s son. You aren’t blaming me for th... ...riage!” Sophie exclaimed, a little awed; for to them the joke, which to an American means work, was only just beginning. “If it’s took in a proper spi... ...as his present keen interest. They set off to look at it, and the imported American scraper which had blighted the none too sunny soul of “Skim” Winsh... ... Cry, which to a bee of good blood should be what the trumpet was to Job’s war-horse. In spite of her immense age (three, years), it rang between the ... ...d out how to steer dirigible balloons. Magniac invented his rudder to help war-boats ram each other; and war went out of fashion and Magniac he went o... ...w score of persons of both sexes, controls this planet. “Transportation is Civilisation,” our motto runs. Theoretically, we do what we please so long ... ...d by the way,” said he to her, stepping forth in sunshine under the hat of civil life, “I saw young Williams in the Mark Boat. I’ve asked him to tea o... ... your cannibals to work for you?” asked Strickland. “They got converted to civilization after my Chief smashed Ibn Makarrah—just at the time I wanted ...

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...er, “did not keep posses sion of the chair a great while. His opinions of civil and reli gious matters differed, in many respects, from those of the... ... fierce were the dissensions that it was feared the conse quence would be civil war and bloodshed. But Winthrop and the ministers being the most powe... ...e were the dissensions that it was feared the conse quence would be civil war and bloodshed. But Winthrop and the ministers being the most powerful, ... ...e French colony was then signed.” “Did England allow Massachusetts to make war and peace with foreign countries?” asked Laurence. “Massachusetts and t... ...t independent of the mother country,” said Grandfa ther. “There was now a civil war in England; and the king, as you may well suppose, had his hands ... ...pendent of the mother country,” said Grandfa ther. “There was now a civil war in England; and the king, as you may well suppose, had his hands full a... ...rs to the charge of treason. During the reign of Charles II., however, the American colonies had but little reason to complain of harsh or tyran nica... ...eason for their apprehen sions. King James caused the charters of all the American colonies to be taken away. The old charter of Massachusetts, which... ...n her, together with the immense wealth of which they had robbed the South American kings.” “Why, Grandfather!” exclaimed Laurence, “what magnifi cen...

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..., to an alternate monarchy, T amasese taking the first trick of two years. War was imminent, when the consuls interfered, and any war were preferable ... ...r, and the holder is secure, from that mo- ment, of a certain following in war. But I cannot find that the further step of election to the kingship im... ...follow they will assemble. If he be too flagrantly disobeyed, he can go to war. But so he could before, when he was only the chief of certain province... ...led Goliath, he cut off his head and carried it before the king?” With the civil life of the inhabitants we have far less to do; and yet even here a w... ...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...ome. This is to take the most savage of Polynesians; take some of the most civilised. In Honolulu, convicts labour on the highways in piebald cloth- i... ...ttery, came to the States, found 28 A Footnote to History employment as a civil engineer, visited Cuba, took a sub- contract on the Panama canal, cau...

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...more fully soon. Will say now that all your despatches to the Secretary of War have been promptly shown to me. Have done and shall do all I could and ... ...coln: V ol Six By order of the President: EDWIN M. STANTON, Secre- tary of War. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Com- manding Army of the Potomac, b... ...he Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six TELEGRAM TO GENERAL RUFUS SAXTON. WAR DEPARTMENT, May, 24 1862. 2 P.M. GENERAL SAXTON: Geary reports Jackson ... ... the 12th day of April, 1861, the insurgents committed the flagrant act of civil war by the bombardment and the capture of Fort Sumter, Which cut off ... ...xists in several of the Southern States, thus practically restoring to the civilized world our great and good government. All believe that the decisiv... ...be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this unnec- essary and injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory con- clusion. An order fixing the qu... ...r- thy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. In the American Revolutionary war sacrifices were made by men engaged in it, but t... ...r newer States, and less than in some of our larger ones. They are not all American colonists or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have be... ... so radically changed, for the mo- ment, the occupations and habits of the American people, has necessarily disturbed the social condition, and affect...

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