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...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... ................................................................. 20 WILL THE EMPIRE LIVE? ................................................................. ...to the history of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten yea... ...at. The second is that, in spite of our fleet, this is no longer, from the military point of view, an inaccessible island. So long as one had to consi... ...f farms and peasant villages, and little towns among the farms. There were wars, crusades, barbarous invasions, set-backs, but to that state all Asia,... ...ike the rising of sap in the spring, a new generation asking only for such leadership and such emancipation from restricted scope and ungenerous hosti... ...and strange urgencies are at work in our midst, forces for which the word “revolutionary” is only too faithfully ap- propriate. Nothing is being done ... ...e to send. Germany and Switzerland send only a few. The South European and Austrian supply is not as abundant as it was. There may come a time when Eu...

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...ER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM........................................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER III THE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ...............................................................

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