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

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...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...ling against the red that I have to tell. The state-making dream is a very old dream indeed in the world’s history. It plays too small a part in novel... ...se it, I myself am just as free to be a prince. The appeal was unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world... ...omstead Station. They were big clumsy residences in the earliest Victorian style, interminably high and with deep damp basements and downstairs coal-c... ...ours acquiring the skill to bowl Flack out. He was a bat in the Corinthian style, rich and voluminous, and succumbed very easily to a low shooter or a... ...that time—I find it hard to place these things in the exact order of their dates because they were so disconnected with the regular progress of my wor...

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...th century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--?Scientists.? They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it i...

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...THE FOOD OF THE GODS AND HOW IT CAME TO EARTH By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food of the ... ... A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsy... ...sylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... of sphygmograph tracings (I write subject to correction) and an admirable new terminology, that did the thing for him. The general public saw little ... ...nder an unaccount- able sense of duty. I heard Bensington also once—in the old days—at an educational conference in Bloomsbury. Like most eminent chem... ..., looking up in response to an inquiry. “For my part I incline to the good old classical allusion. It— it makes Science res—. Gives it a touch of old-... ...e was right and Redwood was right, then by injecting or administering this new substance of his in food, he would do away with the “resting phase,” an... ...sh, Sir. We hold you responsible.” A firm of solicitors, with a snake of a style—Banghurst, Brown, Flapp, Codlin, Brown, Tedder, and Snoxton, they cal... ... licking a lump of such salt as is given to cows, or eating a huge lump of dates, stones and all, such as one sees in Lon- don on barrows. For drink h...

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...1. Introduces Mr. Lewisham. The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love-- indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third--and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to aff...

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...M By H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...d, as a number of torn places witnessed, with innumerable strata of florid old- fashioned paper. T o judge by the room Mr. Lewisham thought little of ... ...n sunlight, and all the lower branches were shot with horizontal dashes of new-born green. “Tu, nisi ventis Debes ludibrium, cave.” was the appropriat... ...’s. 11 H G Wells Surely! “I say!” said Mr. Lewisham, struggling with, the new aspect and forgetting all his manners in his surprise…. He remembered g... ... the stress on his honesty and dropping his voice to a mumble, “a … a … an old friend of my mother’s. In fact, I met her once at Salisbury.” “Where?” ... ...lk. One such came after the holidays, when the ne- cessity of revising the dates of the Schema brought before his mind, for the first time quite clear... ...as to make things clearer. But his scientific studies ren- dered his prose style “hard,” and things he could whisper he could not write. His justifica... ...nd Ruskin. Too many prepositions. Tremendous English, no doubt, but not my style. Sort of thing a wholesale grocer’s daughter might read to get refine...

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Excerpt: The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells.

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...did not use, and then prevailing. They ceased their interruptions, and the old man, Arius, took up the debate. For a time all those impassioned faces ... ... in the picture by Carpaccio. Then one zealot rushed forward and smote the old man heavily upon the mouth…. The hall seemed to grow vaster and vaster,... ...nd weak, and left him a prey to strange disturbances, rather than that any new process of thought was eating into his mind. These doubts in his mind w... .... The fine old abbey church of Princhester, which was the cathedral of the new diocese, looked when first he saw it like a lady Abbess who had taken t... .... The mantel-piece was a handsome work by a Princhester artist in the Gill style—with contemplative ascetics as supporters. “I am worried about Eleano... ...d a distracting and rather interesting day welcoming his ordination candi- dates. They had a good effect upon him; we spiritualize our- selves when we... ...by the spirit of chal- lenge. He did not so much imitate as exaggerate the style of Matthew Arnold. And whatever was done publicly against him would h...

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Excerpt: The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells.

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...tleman, and then yielding it reluc- tantly with its distasteful three-year-old honour, “Sir Rich- mond Hardy.” The door closed softly behind him and h... ...are canvassed and schemed about, long before a single member is appointed. Old Cassidy worked the whole thing with the prime minister. I can see that ... ... a different world. The public won’t stand things it used to stand. It’s a new public. It’s—wild. It’ll smash up the show if they go too far. Everythi... ...said the doctor. “It’s at the back of all sorts of mental trouble. It is a new state of mind. Before the war it was abnormal—a phase of neur- asthenia... ... of controversy in his manner. “I was explaining to the young lady that it dates from the early bronze age. Before chronol- ogy existed…. But she insi... ...rom the early bronze age. Before chronol- ogy existed…. But she insists on dates.” “Nothing of bronze has ever been found here,” said Sir Richmond. “W... ...tives—like visitors at a Zoo. We don’t realize that we belong…. I know our style…. But we aren’t all like that. Some of us are learning a bit better t...

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...Excerpt: ?HOLE!? said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: ??Ole!? He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. ?Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole!?...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...le difficulty in finding his cap before he came out. He wanted his cap—the new golf cap—and Mrs. Polly must needs fish out his old soft brown felt hat... ... He wanted his cap—the new golf cap—and Mrs. Polly must needs fish out his old soft brown felt hat. “‘Ere’s your ‘at,” she said in a tone of insincere... ...ojecting cor- ners, technically a “wing-poke”; that and his tie, which was new and loose and rich in colouring, had been selected to encourage and sti... ...ists of products and populations and heights and lengths, and as lists and dates—oh! and boredom indescribable. He thought of religion as the recital ... ...t was they sang melancholy music hall songs about dying sol- diers and the old folks far away. They would sometimes go into the quieter residential qu... ...de a rapturous noise, nodded appreciation, and said indistinctly—“Quite my style.” “Some of my people have been with me twenty years,” said the employ... ...ncianier. Sooner back horses.” “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” “Not my style, O’ Man.” “It’s a nest egg,” said Johnson. Mr. Polly made an indeterm...

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Excerpt: A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells.

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...lter. That, indeed, is the cardinal assumption of all Utopian speculations old and new; the Republic and Laws of Plato, and More’s Utopia, Howells’ im... ...at, indeed, is the cardinal assumption of all Utopian speculations old and new; the Republic and Laws of Plato, and More’s Utopia, Howells’ implicit A... ... force; the Republic of Plato stood armed ready for defensive war, and the New Atlantis and the Uto- pia of More in theory, like China and Japan throu... ...ck from my momen- tary contemplation of those popular effigies inflated by old newspapers and windy report, the earthly great. He sets me thinking of ... ...need for evidences of equivalent value, a limitation to hu- man credit. It dates—so much of this present Utopia of ours dates. Those former Utopists w... ... the elucidation of our own difficulties. But we seemed to get little, his style was so elusive. After- wards, indeed, we found much information and m... ...tives and freedoms; what were laws before become traditions of feeling and style, and in no mat- ter will this be more apparent than in questions affe...

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...Introduction: The enterprise 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...

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...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ......................................................................301 THE NEW ACCELERATOR .............................................................. ...y or sixty tales from which this present three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from the last century. This edition is more definitive than I suppose... ... the Yellow Book, and the National Observer died only to give birth to the New Review. No short story of the slightest distinction went for long unrec... ... I wrote them. I like them, but I cannot tell how much the associations of old happinesses gives them a flavour for me. I make no claims for them and ... ...Jane bumping her way downstairs with a brush and dust-pan. She used in the old days to sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time bein... ...d at the wedding, ma’am,” she said pres- ently, in a purely conversational style, sitting in our little kitchen, and scrubbing the potatoes; “and such... ... each other like a hen’s. His plum- age was fine—none of the half-mourning style of your os- trich—more like a cassowary as far as colour and texture ...

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Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

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...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES P... ...ar by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a public... ...experience upon man- kind, as I hate some horrible infectious disease. The new war, the war on the modern level, is her invention and her crime. I per... ...was insistent upon the way in which all Venetia was being opened up by the new military roads; there has been scarcely a new road made in Venetia sinc... ...ns, all with long straight noses and side- long eyes. It is all dreadfully old-fashioned. General Joffre sits in a pleasant little sitting-room in a v... ... the antic Per- sonage, the thing I have called the Effigy, is not new but old, the oldest thing in history, the departing thing. It depends not upon ... ... the World, and it will seem to the histo- rian to come, who will know our dates so well and our feel- ings, our fatigues and efforts so little, it wi... ...ndividually into an understand- ing of the job before them; they criticise style and perfor- mance. On the French side things have gone even farther. ... ...e leading divines of both the Angli- can and Catholic communions. The self-styled Intelligen- tsia of Great Britain is all too prone to sneer at their...

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

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...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...lysis of, a guide to the noble life. There after his tragic death came his old friend White, the journalist and novelist, under a promise, and found t... ... prematurely. So that White, though he knew Benham with the intimacy of an old schoolfellow who had renewed his friendship, and had shared his last da... ...te with the comforting regret one feels for a friend’s banalities. “And it dates … [unreadable] this was early… .” “Modern aristocracy, the new aristo... .... “And it dates … [unreadable] this was early… .” “Modern aristocracy, the new aristocracy,” he read pres- ently, “has still to be discovered and unde... ...bitat, he goes out to limitless living… .” This idea of man going out into new things, leaving secu- rities, habits, customs, leaving his normal life ... ...one. Anything is better than inaction. There was a little difficulty about dates and engagements, but he came, and through the season of expectation B... ...me time and he wanted to state his view as vividly as possible. The Benham style of connubial conversa- tion had long since decided for emphasis rathe...

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...nduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and politic... ...t we cannot do while over here and over there men hold themselves bound by old party formulae, by loyal- ties and institutions, that are becoming, tha... ...ions, that are becoming, that have become, provincial in proportion to our new and wider needs. My instances are commonly British, but all the broad p... ...uide at every fork and labyrinth in life. By my allusion to the failure of old formulae and methods to satisfy now, I am afraid many people will choos... ...- its of each type you will find a hundred divergent, almost unanalyzable, styles, a beauty of expression, a beauty of car- riage, a beauty of reflect... ... perhaps, or direct companies, and worm your way through the tough hide of style and restraint he has acquired, get him to talk about women, about his... ...co-opt.” Of course they “co-opt” their fellow politicians, rejected candi- dates, and so on. Among other expedients that people have discussed, are su...