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...se of the war was fairly lucky; the forecast of an alliance of the Central Empires, the opening campaign through the Neth- erlands, and the despatch o... ... of scientific knowledge, separate sovereign states and separate sovereign empires are no longer possible in the world, that to attempt to keep on wit... ...alleys of the Nile, the Euphrates, and the great Chinese rivers, the first empires and the first written laws had their beginnings. Men specialised fo... ...pathy. There were great religious and moral changes throughout the period, empires and republics re- placed one another, Italy tried a vast experiment... ... human affairs on the part of some one particular state. The memory of the empires of Rome and Alexander squatted, an unlaid carnivo- rous ghost, in t... ...untry was suffering much more than France, because of the cessation of the overseas supplies on which it had hith- erto relied. His troops were given ...

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...ia Company ‘It is the strangest of all governments but it is designed for the strangest of all empires.’ Macauley, 1833 On New Years Eve 160... ... by some of the more conservative Indian rulers, that the British sent their young Indian princes overseas to be educated in our schools and univers...

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...ne-bell is ringing madly, and Kings are being killed on the Continent, and Empires are saying, “You’re another,” and Mister Gladstone is calling down ... ...cording and reporting the better for the peace of the subscribers. But the Empires and the Kings continue to divert themselves as selfishly as before,... ...med seas. He had led his hero a desperate dance through revolt against the overseas, to command of a ship of his own, and ultimate establishment of a ...

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...Laura Kate O'Connell left her life of excitement as an overseas news correspondent to return to her Georgia hometown to raise her two young cousins. When Royce Lee, Laura Kate's attorney, supposedly commits suicide, too many pieces of evidence tell a different story. Her instinct...

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...y could figure.” “Who knows with men and women? Royce changed in the years I was overseas and I wonder, can a woman change a man that much?” ... ...school at Duke University. As scion to the Hartwell family’s media and agricultural empires, there was no question of him following his lover. And ... ...t a face that was alive with a vitality he hadn’t seen since she returned home from overseas. It was he who sent the telegram with the bad news of ...

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...ations flew in her harbour, and at the climax, the yearly coming and going overseas num- bered together upwards of two million human beings. To Europe... ...der its influence, the spacious antagonism of na- 231 H G Wells tions and empires and races vanished in a seething mass of detailed conflict. The wor... ...mine and Pestilence are discovered triumphant below. The great nations and empires have become but names in the mouths of men. Everywhere there are ru...

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...mpty continents swarm, as at the bo’s’un’s whistle, with in- dustrious hands, and whole new empires are domesticated to the service of man. This is th... ...ation, and for all of them, and drink first and foremost, this trick of getting transported overseas appears to me the silliest means of cure. You can...

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...ction to the Categori- cal Imperative?” (They talked as though the fate of empires were in the balance.) “It suggests that one can choose one’s course... ...sed father , and the young man had gone out to bear the White Man’s Burden overseas. The imagination of another , a lad who had never before been in a...

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...onal existence. One hears, too, of the sacred principle of Free T rade, of Empires and Zollvereins, and the Rights of the Parent to blockade the educa... ... us off from the nobility of our past, from the severed masses of our race overseas, far more effectually than any growth of neologisms. A language ma... ...istence. Tribes have aggregated into nations, nations have aggregated into empires, and then, after a struggle, has come a great confusion of thought,... ...areas that were convenient in the Babylonian, ancient Egyp- tian, or Roman empires were no larger and no smaller than those that served the purpose of...

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...e House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no more time t... ... principle of conscription not only to her sons but to the property of her overseas investors and of her landed proprietors. She has not even looked y... ...at export trade which, in the case of Great Britain at least, now that her overseas investments have been set off by overseas war debts, is essential ... ... eternal things, but they are far more permanent things than any rulers or empires; they are rooted to the ground by a peasantry, by a physical and te... ...ity, and that there will be a gravita- tion of all other arrangements, all empires and leagues and 104 What Is Coming? what not, towards this rationa... ...now only an exploiter’s cant. The age of “expansion,” the age of European “empires” is near its end. No one who can read the signs of the times in Jap... ... even in Africa the end draws near. Spain has but led the way which other “empires” must fol- low. Look at her empire in the atlases of 1800. She fell... ...ly to come. 129 H G Wells Now there are, roughly speaking, three types of overseas “possessions.” They may be either (1) territory that was origi- na... ...by comparison simple and plain. And so the discussion of the future of the overseas “em- pires” brings us again to the same realisation to which the d...

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...cts than do the learned men of England. They collect facts, and facts, and empires of facts. But which of them will rekindle the light within?” To all... ... “Some one’s got to go,” he said simply. England will never keep her trade overseas unless she is pre- pared to make sacrifices. Unless we get firm in... ...e door that concealed the stairs. Now she thought of the map of Africa; of empires; of her father; of the two supreme nations, streams of whose life w... ...and family ties, what do you suppose happens to thousands of young fellows overseas? Isolated. No one near. I know by bitter expe- rience, and yet you... ...tation to acclaim it as a super-yeo- man, who carries his country’s virtue overseas. But the Imperialist is not what he thinks or seems. He is a destr...

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...ted William Jennings Bryan, but the campaign issue was American expansionism overseas. Chief Justice Melville Fuller administered the oath of office o... ...Europe have fought their bloodiest wars. Thrones have toppled and their vast empires have dis appeared. New nations have been born. INAUGURAL ADDRESS...

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... generalising influences and of wider relevancies. And the oscillations of empires and kingdoms, religious movements, wars, invasions, settlements lea... ...ction, the peasant population wanes before the large farm, the estate, and overseas production. Now most of the political and social discussion of the... ... matter, because India and our other vast areas of service and opportunity overseas drain away a large proportion of just those able and educated men ... ...re acres of railway sidings than of public parks in Greater London—and our Overseas cousins find it ticklish work crossing Regent Street and Piccadill...