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...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...that the Council of an ideal League of Nations must consist chiefly of the representatives of the great belligerent powers, and that the representativ... ...dly knows how, and sitting in a specially built League of Nations Congress House. All schemes are more methodical than reality. We think of somebody, ... ... so only in a very rhetorical sense. There is no real council of empowered representatives, and nothing in the nature of a united front has been prepa... ...f Italy and the King of Norway live as simply as if they were in the White House and are far more accessible. Along that line the British monarchy mus... ...in which voting may be protected from the ex- ploitation of those who work elections, that the method of 75 H.G. Wells Proportional Representation wi...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...n An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Edi- tor, nor anyone a... ...rarer for a son to follow in his father’s footsteps or die in his father’s house. The thing is as simple as the rule of three. We are off the chain of... ...; there is abundant water and food, and the commonest form of cover is the house. But the Legion of Frontiersmen is equipped for war, oh!—in Arizona i... ...the part of those who deal with Labour speeches, Labour literature, Labour representatives, and Labour claims. Labour is necessarily at an enormous di... ...likes. So the nimble wire-puller slips in. In Great Britain we do not have Elections any more; we have Rejections. What really happens at a general el... ...ontent, this resentment, this contempt even, and hostility to duly elected representatives is no mere accident of this democratic country or that; it ...

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...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...on Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished ... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...xty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not apparently affect my general health. This made study... ... the events at Harper’s Ferry. Brown was a boy when they lived in the same house, but he knew him after- wards, and regarded him as a man of great pur... ...d out abo- litionists, men who carried their hostility to slavery into all elections, from those for a justice of the peace up to the Presi- dency of ... ...and knew but few of them. While I was on duty at Springfield the senators, representatives in Congress, ax-gov- ernors and the State legislators were ... ...ged. Many strong Union men believed that the war must prove a failure. The elections of 1862 had gone against the party which was for the prosecution ...

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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...hn Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone a... ... means of support until 1819, when he obtained an appointment in the India House. In this period of my father’s life there are two things which it is ... ...ouragement induced Ricardo, a year or two later, to become a member of the House of Commons; where, during the remaining years of his life, unhappily ... ... one of the wisest and noblest of men. The heroic virtue of these glorious representatives of the opin ions with which I sympathized, deeply affected... ...ing the mis chievous burden of what are called the legitimate expenses of elections. Among our many amendments, was that of Mr. Fawcett for making th... ...he extension of the precautions and penalties against bribery to municipal elections, which are well known to be not only a preparatory school for bri...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to th...