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...ORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Engli... ...D Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishm... ...nic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvan... ...lass which now draws so near. It is as plain now as the way from Calais to Paris that if the owning class does not attend to these amenities the mass ... ...e to go on falling.... There the mind halts, blinded by the too daz- zling vistas of an unimaginative millennium And the way to this, one gathers, is ... ...th the villagers and not with the townsmen, Christian in the spirit of the parish priest. There are no other Conser- vators so clear-headed and consis... ... and education of the latter, then we open at once the whole question of a terminating agree- ment. Marriage ceases to be an unlimited union and becom...

...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 in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...