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...THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machi... ...THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiave... ...STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...dication of all those I burnt last night, was to no single man, but to the socially constructive passion—in any man… . There is, moreover, a second gr... ...isation arose. I have long since come to believe it necessary that all new social institutions should be born in confusion, and that at first they sho... ... and the illus- trated newspapers one learnt something of the way in which parties were split, coalitions formed, how permanent offi- cials worked and... ... under- stand; Marx and Morris, the Chicago Anarchists, Justice and Social Democratic Federation (as it was then) presented so- cialism to our minds. ... ... as much as anything in life could have shocked him. Socialism as a simple democratic cry we had done with for ever. We were socialists because Indivi... .... I saw myself striding on down that winding road, talking of politics and parties and bills of parliament and all sorts of dessicated things. That ro...

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