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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...e meaning, I think, stands out plainly enough, unpal- atable enough to our national pride. This thing from first to last was made abroad. Of all that ... ...ere any reason to suppose that our Navy is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is the Navy bright? The arrival of M. Bléri... ...people all told. It is difficult to see whence the necessary impetus for a national renascence is to come.... The universities are poor and spiritless... ...onfused negation of the broad beliefs and institutions which have been the heritage and social basis of humanity for immemorial years. This is as true... ...ht amuse you as one is amused by looking out of a window into a street, or listening to a piece of agreeable music, and that might be the limit of its... ...erature after Babylon. His first proceeding would be, I suppose, to make a list of that collection. What books, he would say, have all my libraries to... ...n to jot down—with the assistance of a few friends, perhaps—this essential list. He would, being a philosopher, insist on good editions, and he would ... ...phlet full of mis- representation and bad argument against Socialism by an Australian Jew, published by the Single-Tax people appar- ently in a disint...

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