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H. G. Wells. An Englishman Looks at the World
An Englishman Looks at the World
Table of Contents
THE COMING OF BLIRIOT
(July, 1909.)
MY FIRST FLIGHT
(EASTBOURNE, August 5, 1912—three years later.)
OFF THE CHAIN
(December, 1910)
OF THE NEW REIGN
(June, 1911.)
WILL THE EMPIRE LIVE?
THE LABOUR UNREST
(May, 1912.)
SOCIAL PANACEAS
(June, 1912.)
SYNDICALISM OR CITIZENSHIP
THE GREAT STATE
THE NORMAL SOCIAL LIFE
THE COMMON SENSE OF WARFARE
CONSCRIPTION
THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL
THE PHILOSOPHER'S PUBLIC LIBRARY
ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC
ABOUT SIR THOMAS MORE
TRAFFIC AND REBUILDING
THE SO-CALLED SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGY
DIVORCE
THE SCHOOLMASTER AND THE EMPIRE
THE ENDOWMENT OF MOTHERHOOD
DOCTORS
AN AGE OF SPECIALISATION
IS THERE A PEOPLE?
THE DISEASE OF PARLIAMENTS
THE AMERICAN POPULATION
THE POSSIBLE COLLAPSE OF CIVILISATION
(New Year, 1909.)
THE IDEAL CITIZEN
SOME POSSIBLE DISCOVERIES
THE HUMAN ADVENTURE
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H. G. Wells
Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters
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I had just got to the journey of Titmouse from London to Yorkshire in that ex-sheriff's coach he bought in Long Acre—where now the motor-cars are sold—when there came a telegram to bid me note how a certain Mr. Holt was upon the ocean, coming back to England from a little excursion. He had left London last Saturday week at midday; he hoped to be back by Thursday; and he had talked to the President in Washington, visited Philadelphia, and had a comparatively loitering afternoon in New York. What had I to say about it?
Firstly, that I wish this article could be written by Samuel Warren. And failing that, I wish that Charles Dickens, who wrote in his "American Notes" with such passionate disgust and hostility about the first Cunarder, retailing all the discomfort and misery of crossing the Atlantic by steamship, could have shared Mr. Holt's experience.
