...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...

...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...diversion of our house drain under the influence of the Sewage Utilisation Society; but happily he stopped in time. He hardly completed any of the ope... ...word, I suppose many people nowadays would identify with Socialism,—as the Fabians expound it. He was not very definite about this Science, you must u... ... it came as the revolt of the workers. Rodbertus we never heard of and the Fabian Society we did not under- stand; Marx and Morris, the Chicago Anarch... ...easy, but its shifting audience, the comings and goings and hesitations of members behind the chair—not mere audience units, but men who matter—the de... ...ity, with a tremendous eclat. There was visibly a fol- lowing of Socialist members to Chris Robinson; mysteriously uncommunicative gentlemen in soft f...

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...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...

...CS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...ent of Nina Almayer’s story. The then secretary of the London Shipmasters’ Society, with its modest rooms in Fenchurch Street, was a man of indefati- ... ... John ambulance classes, corresponded industriously with public bodies and members of Parliament on subjects touching the interests of the service; an... ... kindness, a strong disposition to do what good he could to the individual members of that craft of which in his time he had been a very excellent mas... ...m in the way of employment? Captain Froud did not see why the Shipmasters’ Society, be- sides its general guardianship of our interests, should not be... ...ings, demagogues, priests, charlatans, dukes, giraffes, cabinet ministers, Fabians, bricklayers, apostles, ants, scientists, Kafirs, soldiers, sailors...

...S SERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...corresponded industriously with pub- 16 Some Reminiscences lic bodies and members of Parliament on subjects touching the interests of the service; an... ... kindness, a strong disposition to do what good he could to the individual members of that craft of which in his time he had been a very excellent mas... ...me to us for their men. There is nothing of a trade-union spirit about our society, and I really don’t see why they should not,” he said once to me. “... ...all things being equal they ought to give preference to the members of the society. In my position I can gener- ally find for them what they want amon... ...ings, demagogues, priests, charlatans, dukes, giraffes, Cabinet Ministers, Fabians, bricklay- ers, apostles, ants, scientists, Kaffirs, soldiers, sail...

...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... extensively or intensively, that is to say whether in relation to all the members of the species or in relation to an imaginary typical specimen. The... ...we have the human subjects in which there is no exactitude. The science of society stands at the extreme end of the scale from the molecular sciences.... ...tion somehow, did, as Pro- fessor Durkheim has pointed out, separate human society into societies, and made believe they competed one with another and... ... furtive Socialism of the specialist which one meets most typically in the Fabian Society. It arises very naturally out of what I may perhaps call spe... ... the competing and destructive tendency. So long as we are individuals and members of a species, we must needs both hate and love. But because I belie...

...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...

...lassics Series Publication Billy Budd by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...sics Series Publication Billy Budd by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...ty. This Por- table 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... ...ely holds:— “Honest and poor, faithful in word and thought, What has thee, Fabian, to the city brought?” Though our Handsome Sailor had as much of mas... ... minds in those days, minds by nature not inferior to his own. While other members of that aristocracy to which by birth he belonged were incensed at ... ...r then that a young fellow of Billy’s disposition was well content in such society. Giving no cause of offence to anybody, he was always alert at a ca... ...course, and he, below at dinner and engaged in some sportful talk with the members of his mess, chanced in a sudden lurch to spill the entire contents...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-ofwar?s men or merchant-...

...Otto – A Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition) is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...o – A Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition) is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...and me,’ lowering his voice, ‘I am myself affiliated. O yes, I am a secret society man, and here is my medal.’ And drawing out a green ribbon that he ... ...oke the truth, and so I’ll hold hard, and not intrude upon your Highness’s society.’ And the miller reined up and, clumsily enough, saluted. ‘You will... ...tain’s eye in mat- ters of the toilette; she was none of those who hang in Fabian helplessness among their finery and, after hours, come forth upon th... ...t, the government was sitting, – the new government, of which at least two members must be known to you by name: Sabra, who had, I believe, the benefi...

...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.

...Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ... H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...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 Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ... standards im- perative in so deep, so mysterious, and, nowadays, in mixed society at least, so infrequent a discussion. It was like animals breaking ... ...t, he thought, would be a good phrase: “Christ the Master and Servant.”…. “Members of one Body,” that should be his text…. At last it was finished. Th... ...Hampstead and fallen amongst ad- vanced thinkers and got mixed up with the Fabian Society. His anxious eyes and faintly propitiatory manner suggested ... ...ad and fallen amongst ad- vanced thinkers and got mixed up with the Fabian Society. His anxious eyes and faintly propitiatory manner suggested an impe... ...ficient importance to Lady Sunderbund’s disposition to invite Positivists, members of the Brotherhood Church, leaders among the Christian Sci- entists...

Excerpt: The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells.

...ille A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...e A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...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... ...hich the important events lately occurring at the Sandwich, Marquesas, and Society Islands, have been regarded in America and England, and indeed thro... ... This uncle was Thomas Melville, presi- dent of the Berkshire Agricultural Society, and a successful gentleman farmer. Herman’s roving disposition, an... ...e of him. Supposing, however, that he would soon ap- pear with some of the members of the household, I quieted my apprehensions, and waited patiently ... ...; for Mehevi, in conducting his warlike operations, rather inclined to the Fabian than to the Bonapartean tactics, husbanding his resources and expos-... ...hieved, the whole savage orchestra might with great ad- vantage to its own members and the company in general, have ceased the prodigious uproar they ...

Excerpt: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville.

...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...................................................................................

.... G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ... shameful and embittering fact that a gifted man from the poorer strata of society must too often buy his personal development at the cost of his post... ...nspicuously. These figures, it must be borne in mind, deal with the living members of each class at the ages given. The mortality, however, in the bla... ...: they attain a trifling amount of mutual improve- ment at their best, the members read papers to one another, and a few medical men and schools secur... ...brarians and libraries need so far as American history goes. The En- glish Fabian Society, I may note, publishes a sixpenny bibli- ography of social a... ...e, the Catholic T ruth Society, the Rationalist Press Association, and the Fabian Society. There is a real need to- day for one—indeed there is room f...

...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...