An Englishman Looks at the World / Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters
by H. G. Wells
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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." I make a hasty promise and go out and tell my friends. From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps upon the water, and ...
Chapters (41)
- AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD
- Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters
- 1914
- AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD
- THE COMING OF BLIRIOT
- (July, 1909.)
- MY FIRST FLIGHT
- (EASTBOURNE, August 5, 1912—three years later.)
- OFF THE CHAIN
- (December, 1910)
- OF THE NEW REIGN
- (June, 1911.)
- WILL THE EMPIRE LIVE?
- THE LABOUR UNREST
- (May, 1912.)
- SOCIAL PANACEAS
- (June, 1912.)
- SYNDICALISM OR CITIZENSHIP
- THE GREAT STATE
- THE NORMAL SOCIAL LIFE
- THE COMMON SENSE OF WARFARE
- CONSCRIPTION
- THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL
- THE PHILOSOPHER'S PUBLIC LIBRARY
- ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC
- ABOUT SIR THOMAS MORE
- TRAFFIC AND REBUILDING
- THE SO-CALLED SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGY
- DIVORCE
- THE SCHOOLMASTER AND THE EMPIRE
- THE ENDOWMENT OF MOTHERHOOD
- DOCTORS
- AN AGE OF SPECIALISATION
- IS THERE A PEOPLE?
- THE DISEASE OF PARLIAMENTS
- THE AMERICAN POPULATION
- THE POSSIBLE COLLAPSE OF CIVILISATION
- (New Year, 1909.)
- THE IDEAL CITIZEN
- SOME POSSIBLE DISCOVERIES
- THE HUMAN ADVENTURE
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