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...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ... Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...nic transmission, in any way. In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...plans of the Allies; in the end it will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have ... ...ay, President Wilson, in inserting that significant adjec- tive “Free.” We western allies know to-day what is involved in making bargains with governm... ... the sight of all mankind before even an armistice occurs on the main, the western front. The German diplomatists hate this pro- cess. So do a lot of ... ...proposal is an international control of Africa between the Zambesi and the Sahara. This has been received with loud protests by men whose work one is ... ...d, but, of course, divided and weakened as she would be bound to be in the process, would get better terms from the Allies than a Germany still facing... ...HERE, QUITE COMPACTLY, is the plain statement of the essen- tial cause and process of the war to which I would like to see the Allied Foreign Offices ...

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...anguage of their several churches and law 5 Thomas de Quincey courts. The process of ordination and induction is totally different under the differen... ...terest to the nation; first, upon a demand for creating clergymen by a new process; secondly, upon a demand for Papal latitude of jurisdiction. Even t... ... of religion to be cau- tious; whose casuistry had moved in the harness of peace, and who had preferred an interest of conscience to a tri- umph of pa... ...at- ing the Egyptian toilette, which were discovered in the cata- combs of Sahara in Middle Egypt, there was a single joint of a common reed containin... ...with peculiar delight by the elder Arabic poets. That it had spread to the westernmost parts of Africa, early in the Christian times, we learn from Te... ... he appealed to arms; nay, sometimes he condescended so far in his love of peace, as to attempt purchasing with gold rights or concessions of expedien... ...mply to extort by arms. Nor where these courses were unavailing, and where peace was no longer to be maintained by any sacrifices, is it ever found th... ...may unthread the mazes of romantic Auvergne, or make a stretch even to the Western Alps of Savoy. But, for the Mediterranean, and especially for the L... ... Caesar, if now represented at all, are so in Wales, in Cornwall, or other western recesses of the island. And the Albanians are held to be a Sclavoni...

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...movements, half- frantic in themselves, could be of soft nature? As in dry Sahara, when the winds waken, and lift and winnow the immensity of sand! T... ...ld, there is order, or the beginning of order. Consider two things in this Sahara-waltz of the French Twenty-five millions; or rather one thing, and o... ...tillery without end? Retardation, Patrio- tism is good; but so likewise is peaceable baking of pastry, and sleeping in whole skin.—Hapless Beaurepaire... ...her than yield to Despots. The Prussians, descending from the heights, are peaceable masters of Verdun. And so Brunswick advances, from stage to stage... ...nville is in the North;—and all France leaps distracted, like the winnowed Sahara waltzing in sand-col- onnades! More desperate posture no country eve... ...ns, calcu- late the Problem of Three gravitating Bodies, ought to hold her peace here, and say only: In this National Convention there are Seven Hundr... ...a National Representative become? And now the sun- light falls yellower on western windows, and the chimney- tops are flinging longer shadows; the ref... ... than General Custine did: let him look to it! Through the Eastern and the Western Pyrenees Spain has deployed it- self; spreads, rustling with Bourbo... ...nty days. (Deux Amis, xi. 80-143.) Or see, in these same weeks, far in the Western waters: breasting through the Bay of Biscay, a greasy dingy little ...

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... of Paris, deafen every French and every English ear, the German can stand peaceful on his scientific watch-tower; and, to the raging, struggling mult... ...iversity; so able to lec- ture, should occasion call; so ready to hold his peace for indefinite periods, should an enlightened Government con- sider t... ..., like a Tree, whose roots are not intertangled with its branches, but lie peaceably under- ground. Nay it is very mournful, yet not useless, to see a... ... favor with Teufelsdrockh, much as he otherwise venerates these two latter processes. “Shall your Science,” exclaims he, “proceed in the small chink-l... ...porringer was placed: there, many a sunset, have I, looking at the distant western Mountains, consumed, not without relish, my evening meal. Those hue... ... no employment to be had. Neither, for a youth without connections, is the process of Expectation very hopeful in itself; nor for one of his dispositi... ... earthen kettle with a horse-tail. I have roasted wild eggs in the sand of Sahara; I have awakened in Paris Estrapades and Vienna Malzleins, with no p... ...ning to strip us bare! “The World,” says he, “as it needs must, is under a process of devastation and waste. which, whether by silent assiduous corros...

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... was untattooed; it looked so naked; whereupon, with some greatness of soul, our hero put himself in the hands of the Tahukus, and, with still greater... ...and barrow, and touching hats and smiling to the visitor like old attached family servants. On Sunday these are gone, and nothing to be seen but dogs ... ...hey are besides inclined to view the Marquesans with an eye of humorous indulgence. ‘They are dying, poor devils!’ said M. Delaruelle: ‘the main thing... ...nts and sentiments by presents is uni- versal in the island world. A gift plays with them the part of stamp and seal; and has entered profoundly into ... ... has been exactly true to his engagement, remains where he landed, and designs to die where he has lived. Now, with such a man, falling and taking roo... ...dwelt upon in South Sea talk as that between the ‘low’ and the ‘high’ island, and there is none more broadly marked in nature. The Himalayas are not m... ...w in a drowsy monotone, now with a menacing swing. The isle lay nearly east and west, barring our advance on Fakarava. We must, therefore, hug the coa... ...ted in his house, and the widow and another aged woman leaned on the fence before the door, no speech upon their lips, no specu- lation in their eyes....

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... has informed M. Noir.” “H’m! I might have known it. It is just like that Fourtou, who always wants to make a display.” At half past nine in the morni... ...hearses; then a carriage containing the head undertakers; then a train of assistants and mutes on foot; and after these came plodding through the fog ... ...ncipal and asked him if he was ready. He spread himself out to his full width, and said in a stern voice, “Ready! Let the batteries be charged.” The l... ... I lived over again all that I suffered the time the orphan asylum burned down. We only had one brief little season of heaven and heaven’s sweet ecsta... ...em sat a sweet, benignant old dame with round spectacles on her nose and her busy knitting-needles in her hands. Now all of a sudden, into the midst o... ...Germany, in the summer, is the perfection of the beauti- ful, but nobody has understood, and realized, and enjoyed the utmost possibilities of this so... ... The Reverend winced, but said mildly: “Yes—we are Americans.” “Lord love you, you can just bet that’s what I am, every time! Put it there!” He held o... ...led nine-jointed German words here; now I tell you it’s awful good to lay it over a Christian word once more and kind of let the old taste soak it. I’... ... his frogs,” as he expressed it. The Reverend said it had transpired during the interview that “Cholley” Adams’s father was an extensive dealer in hor...

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...HE SHIPWRECK N EVER HAD I SEEN A YEAR GOING OUT, or going on, under quieter circumstances. Eighteen hundred and fifty-nine had but another day to live... ... around thy bed; and may the gates of plenty, honour, and happiness be ever open to thee. May no sorrow distress thy days; may no grief disturb thy ni... ... beforehand with the old men and women exhibiting crippled children, and with the children exhibiting old men and women, ugly and blind, who always se... ...ome to pass that I knew the powerful preacher from beginning to end, all over and all through, while I was very young, and that I left him behind at a... ...hed and horrible they were rendering the small hours to unfortunate suitors. Westminster Abbey was fine gloomy society for another quarter of an hour;... ...ook upon Gray’s Inn generally as one of the most depressing institutions in brick and mortar, known to the children of men. Can anything be more drear... ... visitor drank the remainder before he had been The Uncommercial Traveller 141 an hour in the chambers by the chimes of the church of St. Mary in the... ... mysteriously inquired whether I should be much sur- prised and disappointed if among the treasures in the com- ing hamper I discovered potted game, a...

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...sely bound up with conceptions of a profound social revo- lution. If world peace is to be attained through labour inter- nationalism, it will have to ... ...nd the labour class alone, that any conception of a world rule and a world peace has so far appeared. The dream of The World Set Free, a dream of high... ...with began fiction—pointing a way to achievement— and the august prophetic procession of tales. For scores and hundreds of centuries, for myriads of g... ...t’s solicitude was seed-time and harvest and fertility, and the king ruled peace 9 H G Wells and war. In a hundred river valleys about the warm, temp... ...unity amidst the busy preoccupations, the comings and goings, the wars and processions, the castle building and cathedral building, the arts and loves... ...me, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—nobody seems to have realised... ...indows looked out across the Seine to the Trocadero and the palaces of the western quarter, a series of big-scale relief maps were laid out upon table... ...woman at the win- dow, how wonderful it all was. This was the brain of the western world, this was Olympus with the warring earth at its feet. And he ... ...nless belts of land that lay across the conti- nental masses, from Gobi to Sahara and along the backbone of America, with their perfect air, their dai...

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...who embrace it. It is difficult to define, I admit.” “I should call it the peace of the sea,” said Mr. Charles Powell in an earnest tone but looking a... ...he night and the silence of slumber had stolen gradually over the wide and peaceful rural landscape commanded by the cottage. After telling me that mu... ...world is and remains safe enough. Feel- ing, in my character of a lover of peace, soothed by that con- clusion I prepared myself to enjoy a fine day. ... ...d to him, I imagine. They got that of course; but it was a mere crumb in a Sahara of starvation, a drop in the thirsty ocean. I dare say that not a si... ...s which in the case of other be- ings like herself is removed by a gradual process of experi- ence and information, often only partial at that, with s... ...rds—or any words at all—was in itself a terribly enlighten- ing, an ageing process. She had talked a long time, uninter- rupted by Mrs. Fyne, childlik... ...ttage (with all its con- sequences), Anthony had got an offer to go to the Western Islands, and bring home the cargo of some ship which, dam- aged in ... ...ffer of chartering his ship for the special purpose of proceed- ing to the Western Islands was put in his way by a firm of shipbrokers who had no doub... ... to her to have a mocking sound. And so this 272 Chance short trip—to the Western Islands only—came to an end. It was so short that when young Powell...

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...upon at once; and as the whole body is to be more or less embellished by a process so slow, 27 Melville the studios alluded to are constantly filled.... ...n the canvas, and the ship heading right out into the immense blank of the Western Pacific. The watch were asleep. With one foot resting on the rudder... ...dying in his oven. Baltimore’s tribulations were indeed sore; there was no peace for him day nor night. Poor fellow! he was altogether too good-natur... ...g, as it were from the ocean. These would appear to be islands in the very process of creation—at any rate, one involuntarily concludes so, on beholdi... ... out anyone getting into trouble. Still they told us, up and down, that if peaceable means failed, they would seize Little Jule, and carry her into Pa... ... parcel of mutineers and pirates!” All this time, the mate was holding his peace; and Wilson, now completely abashed, and at a loss what to do, took h... ...way of the beach. Taloo, the only frequented harbour of Imeeo, lies on the western side of the island, almost directly over against Martair. Upon one ... ...rry their hospitality to an amazing ex- tent. Let a native of Waiurar, the westernmost part of T ahiti, make his appearance as a traveller at Partoowy... ...le, you would have to run hack to your old place again. Safely passing the Sahara, or Fiery Desert, we soothed our half-blistered feet by a pleasant w...

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...nd, when a final decision might be had, whether to name it “The Oasis” or “Sahara.” So, at last, find ing it impracticable to hammer out anything bet... ...and to spend your days and nights in helping your fellow creatures to draw peaceful dying breaths.” 33 Hawthorne “And by which of my qualities,” inqu... ... up, the slighter is the probability that they can be led to recognize the process by which godlike benevolence has been debased into all devouring eg... ... upon a load of hay, and caused it to slide off the cart. How she made her peace I never knew; but very soon afterwards I saw old Silas, with his braw... ...t basis, I might fling aside my pilgrim staff and dusty shoon, and rest as peacefully here as elsewhere. Or, in case Hollingsworth should occupy the g... ...erable progeny swarmed out of the adjacent doors, used to mock at the pale Western child. They fancied—or, at least, affirmed it, between jest and ear... ...ressed violently out and dis tilled into alcoholic liquor by an unnatural process, but should render life sweet, bland, and gently beneficent, and in...

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...Faerie Queen. “Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean til it boil.” —Sir William Davenant. Prefac... ...ek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array, con- trasting climates, zone by ... ...r thrice; kissed his nose; and that done, we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world. But we did not go to slee... ...dint of beating about a little in the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to inquire the way, we at last came to something which... ...y from the Syrian coast, were the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession.* Grant it, since you cite it; but, say what you will, there is ... ...at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for their functions is gone through. There is a s... ...is hab- its, the French call him requin. 188 Moby Dick Most famous in our Western annals and Indian traditions is that of the White Steed of the Prai... ...nished him. A most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen, western world, which to the eyes of the old trap- pers and hunters revived ... ... hides not Virginia’s Dismal Swamp, nor Rome’s accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the millions of miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the ...

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...a kind of happy-family cage in which all kinds of men lie down together in peace. In his private thoughts Hapley could not forgive Pawkins for dying. ... ... this I avoided the delay of striking matches; but for all that the steady process of extinction went on, and the shadows I feared and fought against ... ...- pression of humanity a Martian observer would get who, after a difficult process of preparation and with considerable fatigue to the eyes, was able ... ... sort of ‘Moo’ noise, they built big bonfires outside and left me alone in peace in the darkness of my hut, free to unscrew my windows a bit and think... ...he great circle beneath the white images of the ancient gods, and glorious processions of youths and maidens came and went. We two danced, not the dre... ...vances that had been invented and had fallen into abeyance during the long peace. There were all sorts of these things that people were routing out an... ... of those pleasant little detached houses in the mixed style that make the western end of the Upper Sandgate Road so interesting. His is the one with ... ... He came to the actual thing one day. “Our Pharmaco- poeia,” he said, “our Western Pharmacopoeia, is anything but the last word of medical science. In... ...ed a little thing lost in this wilderness of Nature, a sixpence dropped on Sahara. He was a young man, this was his first sight of the tropics, he cam...

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... other part of the world—in England, in Australia, and in the Northern and Western States; I was thinking of this dark shadow that had oppressed every... ... very distinctly engraved upon my memory, because I recall that during the process of putting the potatoes in or taking them out I would often come in... ... within a few days after he began reading. At my home in West Virginia the process of being called to the ministry was a very interesting one. Usually... ...t systematically on a large scale. He secured from the reservations in the Western states over one hundred wild and for the most part perfectly ignora... ...rior, and get a receipt for him, in order that he might be returned to his Western reservation. At that time I was rather igno- rant of the ways of th... ...unding things that they had studied. While they could locate the Desert of Sahara or the capital of China on an artificial globe, I found out that the... ...roughout the country which followed the close of the Spanish-American war, peace celebrations were arranged in several of the large cities. I was aske... ...nt in this way as far as Rotterdam, and later went to The Hague, where the Peace Conference was then in session, and where we were kindly received by ... ...as likely to visit Atlanta, Georgia, for the purpose of taking part in the Peace Jubilee exercises to be held there to commemorate the successful clos...

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...senting her with dwarf Negroes;— and a Most Christian King has unspeakable peace within doors, whatever he may have without. “My Chancellor is a scoun... ...ed, Fool, this night thy life shall be required of thee! Is it the healthy peace, or the ominous unhealthy, that rests on France, for these next Ten Y... ...ers,’ its sweet institutions (institutions douces); betokening nothing but peace among men!—Peace? O Philosophe-Sentimentalism, what hast thou to do w... ... zero, are they not great? Nay, best of all, some happy Continents (as the Western one, with its Savannahs, where whosoever has four willing limbs fin... ...s and times, do the proudest palaces we build of it take wings, and become Sahara sand-palaces, spinning many pillared in the whirlwind, and bury us u... ... movements, half-frantic in themselves, could be of soft nature? As in dry Sahara, when the winds waken, and lift and winnow the immensity of sand! Th... ...ld, there is order, or the beginning of order. Consider two things in this Sahara-waltz of the French Twenty-five millions; or rather one thing, and o... ...a National Representative be- come? And now the sunlight falls yellower on western win- dows, and the chimney-tops are flinging longer shadows; the re... ... than General Custine did: let him look to it! Through the Eastern and the Western Pyrenees Spain has deployed itself; spreads, rustling with Bourbon ...

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...antation on its banks, which appears to have been commenced in a spirit of peace and harmony. It will be Grass ground River as long as grass grows an... ...ss grows and water runs here; it will be Concord River only while men lead peaceable lives 6 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers on its banks. To an ... ...ar, which ceased not, till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave peace to these United States.” As a Concord poet has sung:— “By the rude ... ...ne increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the Suns.” There are secret articles in our treaties with the go... ..., yet infi nitely stagnant; until, at last, in that same Asia, but in the western part of it, appeared a youth, wholly unforetold by them,—not being ... ...ly to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplatio... ...ankhya Sastra .” “Seek an asylum in wisdom alone”; but what is wisdom to a Western mind? The duty of which he speaks is an arbitrary one. When was it ... ... is astonishing what a great sore a little scratch breedeth. Who knows but Sahara, where caravans and cities are buried, began with the bite of an Afr... ... and, excepting a faint trail on the edge of the marsh, is as trackless as Sahara. There are dreary bluffs of sand and valleys ploughed by the wind, w...

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...keep yourself informed of the state of the markets, pros pects of war and peace everywhere, and anticipate the tendencies of trade and civilization ... ...ss of the trivial name. And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in or dinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of gr... ...ccidental souring of the dough which, it is supposed, taught the leavening process, and through the various fermentations thereafter, till I came to “... ... indispensablenfor my discoveries were not by the syn thetic but analytic process and I have gladly omitted it since, though most housewives earnest... ...face of the earth, and dried up every spring, and made the great desert of Sahara, till at length Ju piter hurled him headlong to the earth with a th... ... one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the ... ... butt For one of those fleet railroad shafts, and o’er Our peaceful plain its soothing sound is Concord.” The Fitchburg Railroad to... ...ethinks I hear them barking behind the Peterboro’ Hills, or panting up the western slope of the Green Mountains. They will not be in at the death. The... ...hore is irregular enough not to be monotonous. I have in my mind’s eye the western, indented with deep bays, the bolder northern, and the beautifully ...