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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Ji... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...e pictures of coronations, royal weddings, parlia- ments, conferences, and gatherings so popular in Victorian times, in which, instead of a face, each... ... in the past due to homogeneity, to an ease in public in the future due to intelligence and good breeding, and in Utopia that transition will be com- ... ...ualitative and quantitative questions, to temper good intentions with good intelligence, and righteousness with wisdom. One of the darkest evils of ou... ...eems to lack the intellectual power to make them. The science hangs like a gathering fog in a val- ley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, a... ...h, while it excepts her from the severer qualifications 179 H G Wells and disciplines, brings her regimen of life into a working harmony with his.” “...

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...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication First and Las... ...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication First and Last T... ...ion First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...at something to which all my other emotions and passions may contribute by gathering and con- tributing experience, and through which the synthesis of... ...sts are apt to measure minds by their speciality and underrate the average intelligence. The specialist is ap- palled by the real task before him, and... ...and economic system is based upon conditions that the grow- ing collective intelligence condemns as unjust and undesir- able, and that the constructiv... ...i are but figures of suggestion, figures to think over and use in planning disciplines, but by no means copies to follow. I have had to go over again,... ...f the base.” He goes on to tell of certain intellectual qualifications and disciplines. “Next to the intellectual qualification comes the physical, th... ...in things already written in this book. The belief in a collec- tive being gathering experience and developing will, to which every life is subordinat...

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...Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ann Veronica:... ...Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ann Veronica: A ... ...he Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H. G . Wells Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells “The art of ignor... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H. G . Wells Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells “The art of ignoring ... ...do.” “Why shouldn’t I go?” “It isn’t a suitable place; it isn’t a suitable gathering.” “But, daddy, what do you know of the place and the gath- ering?... ...rue, like the girls of the eighties and nineties, neverthe- less to a fine intelligence they have the flavor of tobacco. They have no amenities, they ... ...e just as 36 Ann Veronica one must have flowers—one could ask to a little gathering without the risk of a painful discord. Then the distant rela- tio... ... back with an un- compromising vigor that was his way of complimenting her intelligence. But this afternoon it discovered an unusual vein of irritabil... ..., beautiful, a little pa- thetic and altogether dignified; a life of great disciplines and suppressions and extensive reserves… But the Ramage affair ...

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...GOD THE INVISIBLE KING by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication God the Invis... ...GOD THE INVISIBLE KING by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication God the Invisibl... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...he considers the spiritual monstrosities es- tablished by that undignified gathering. He makes no at- tempt to be obscure or propitiatory in this conn... ...f India. Let us leave, therefore, these morbid elabo- rations of the human intelligence to drift to limbo, and come rather to the natural heresies tha... ...radox that the desire for seemliness, the instinct for restraints and fair disciplines, and the impulse to cherish sweet familiar things, that these t... ...e nursery-maid who wants to leave Fear to mind her charges and enforce her disciplines, while she goes off upon her own aims. But indeed, the teaching... ...tion of that “right” is for the dispassionate consider- ation of the human intelligence. 40 God The Invisible King All this is set down here as disti... ...n himself, composed of that but more than that, as a temple is more than a gathering of stones, or a regiment is more than an accumulation of men. The...