...ics Series Publication Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Series Publication Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for 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... ... his mind.” His chief successes he exhibited to the Lowndean Microscopical Society, where their high technical merit never failed to excite admiration... ...skull, displayed an odd miscellany of books—Shaw and Swinburne, Tom Jones, Fabian Essays, Pope and Dumas, 27 H. G . Wells cheek by jowl. Constance Wi... ...where. I must take you to the Suffrage people, and the Tolstoyans, and the Fabians.” “I have heard of the Fabians,” said Ann Veronica. “It’s the Socie... ...oing things for you? The abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white sisterhood that takes and does not give? The go... ...in the chair blenched at the sound of the policemen’s whistles. The bolder members in the House left their places to go lobbyward, grinning. Others pu...

...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis had been reached, a...

...y 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 publicatio... ...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...uture: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e name of the villain in the piece or of the maligned heroine, or a secret society or a gold mine, or a pestilence or a delusion—the name of the Banca... ... Italian business; that their merchants are not bona-fide individuals, but members of a nationalist conspiracy to gain economic controls. The German i... ... and her husband had met a min- ister—I found afterwards he was one of the members of the late Giolotti government—who had been talking very loudly an... ...f any more value to England than the elegant activities of the Toxophilite Society. More- over, there has been a colossal buying of horses for the Bri... ...vate Scott Duckers to put on his khaki trousers. The New Statesman and the Fabian Soci- ety, however, display a wider intelligence. There is a great v...

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

...es Publication Fanny’s First Play by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Publication Fanny’s First Play by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...t say! FANNY. Just so. Thats one of our classifications in the Cam- bridge Fabian Society. TROTTER. Classifications? I dont understand. FANNY. We clas... ...FANNY. Just so. Thats one of our classifications in the Cam- bridge Fabian Society. TROTTER. Classifications? I dont understand. FANNY. We classify ou... ..., Miss O’Dowda: kittens. I say again in the teeth of the whole Cam- bridge Fabian Society, kittens. Impertinent little kittens. Blame them. Smack them... ...O’Dowda: kittens. I say again in the teeth of the whole Cam- bridge Fabian Society, kittens. Impertinent little kittens. Blame them. Smack them. I gue... ... conscience. This play to which you have lured me is one of those in which members of Fabian Societies instruct their grandmoth- ers in the art of mil...

...anny?s First Play. Fanny?s First Play, being but a potboiler, needs no preface. But its lesson is not, I am sorry to say, unneeded. Mere morality, or the substitution of custom for conscience was once accounted a shameful and cynical thing: people talked of right and wrong, of honor and dishonor, of sin and grace, of salvation and damnation, not of morality and immorality....

...ernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...ard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...e, for 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... ... am convinced that Shakespear took that view of himself ) will plunge into society without a lesson in table manners, into politics without a lesson i... ...rance which all great men have had from the more capable and suscep- tible members of their generation that they were great men, Ben Jonson’s evidence... ...athed courtiers. If, on the other hand, Shakespear’s characters are mostly members of the leisured classes, the same thing is true of Mr Harris’s own ... ...ables, to the abuses in which he called attention quite in the vein of the Fabian Society. He was concerned about drunkenness and about the idolatry a... ...to the abuses in which he called attention quite in the vein of the Fabian Society. He was concerned about drunkenness and about the idolatry and hypo...

...Excerpt: I had better explain why, in this little piece d?occasion, written for a performance in aid of the funds of the project for establishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady with Mistress Mary Fitton. First, let me say that I do not contend that the Dark Lady was Mary Fitto...

...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...Y H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publicat... ... 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... ...rth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...in English by Olsen’s of Christiania. There is an active League of Nations Society in Dublin, as well as the London and Washington ones, pub- lishing ... ...of Nations idea, is to think of some very elaborate and definite scheme of members on the model of existing legislative bodies, called together one ha... ...in the government of their own lands, until they too become free and equal members of the world league. Neither France nor Italy nor Britain nor Ameri... ...of Brit- ish public life at the present time. From the wire-pullers of the Fabian Society and from the party organizers of both Liberal and Tory party... ...out of the game. He has no power of intervention at all. The artful little Fabian politicians rub their hands and say, “Now we can get to work with th...

...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essen...

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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... ...e, for 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 anyo... ...s, morals, have adapted themselves. The whole plan and conception of human society is based on the rustic home and the needs and characteristics of th... ...oportional representation, with large constituencies return- ing each many members, there is to be found a way of escape from this disastrous embarras... ...tions and satisfactions is attained, or the Normal Social Life re-emerges. Fabian socialism was the first systematic attempt to meet the fatal absence... ...roperty, which is the common starting-point of all socialist projects, the Fabians, appalled at the obvious difficulties of honest confis- cation and ... ...y must contemplate a working politi- cal combination between the Socialist members in Parlia- ment and just that non-capitalist section of the Liberal...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices i...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT...................................................................................

...ublication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for 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 any- o... ...UCTION T HE ATTEMPT to conceive imaginatively a better or- dering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto ... ...and will which is necessary to place them- selves among the more fortunate members of the commu- nity; but very few among these are seriously concerne... ... compan- 9 Bertrand Russell ions or colleagues or friends, or in some way members of the same “herd”; the other toward those whom they regard as enem... ...r had many followers. Socialism there has been inspired in the main by the Fabians (founded in 1883), who threw over the advocacy of revolution, the M... ...argely inspired at 44 Proposed Roads to Freedom first by the ideas of the Fabians, though retaining to the present day, and especially since the outb...

...ER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM........................................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER III THE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ...............................................................

...assics Series Publication Candida by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ics Series Publication Candida by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...e, for 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... ...a porch. Visitors go up the flight of steps to the porch: tradespeople and members of the family go down by a door under the steps to the basement, wi... ...ys, and guess at his poli- tics from a yellow backed Progress and Poverty, Fabian Es- says, a Dream of John Ball, Marx’s Capital, and half a dozen oth... ... before yesterday. 7 Candida PROSERPINE (referring to diary). Engaged—the Fabian Society. MORELL. Bother the Fabian Society! Is the 28th gone too? PR... ... yesterday. 7 Candida PROSERPINE (referring to diary). Engaged—the Fabian Society. MORELL. Bother the Fabian Society! Is the 28th gone too? PROSERPIN...

...Excerpt: Act I. A fine October morning in the north east suburbs of London, a vast district many miles away from the London of Mayfair and St. James?s, much less known there than the Paris of the Rue de Rivoli and the Champs Elysees, and much less narrow, squalid, fe...

...uperman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...rman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...e, for 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... ...n the days of the first Don Juan, are now triumphant everywhere. Civilized society is one huge bour- geoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengro... ... forth. On the whole, this is a sensible and satisfactory founda- tion for society. Money means nourishment and marriage means children; and that men ... ... and I and Mr Sidney Webb were sowing our political wild oats as a sort of Fabian Three Musketeers, without any prevision of the surprising respect- a... ...bed by the brothers Faint Heart, Mistrust, and Guilt, all three recognized members of respectable society and veritable pil- lars of the law. The whol...

...Excerpt: My dear Walkley, you once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit p...