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

By Wells, H. G.

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Title:	An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters
Author:	Wells, H. G.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Excerpt
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 in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and throbbings. Then in elfin tones the real message comes through: ?Bleriot has crossed the Channel.... An article ... about what it means.?

Table of Contents
Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT........................................................................................................................ 10 OFF THE CHAIN........................................................................................................................... 15 OF THE NEW REIGN .................................................................................................................... 20 WILL THE EMPIRE LIVE? ......................................................................................................... 27 THE LABOUR UNREST................................................................................................................ 34 SOCIAL PANACEAS...................................................................................................................... 61 SYNDICALISM OR CITIZENSHIP............................................................................................. 66 THE GREAT STATE ...................................................................................................................... 72 THE COMMON SENSE OF WARFARE ..................................................................................... 99 THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL ...............................................................................................110 THE PHILOSOPHER?S PUBLIC LIBRARY............................................................................ 126 ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC.................................................................................... 129 ABOUT SIR THOMAS MORE ................................................................................................... 135 TRAFFIC AND REBUILDING ................................................................................................... 138 THE SO-CALLED SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGY...................................................................... 141