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  The Necessary Characters of the Man of the Remote Future deduced from the Existing Stream of Tendency


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id: 14060
title: Mr. Britling Sees It Through
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  "I''ve got a little car outside here," said Mr. Britling. "I was telling Mrs. Britling," said Mr. Direck, "what a very great Mr. Britling''s talk became like a wide stream flowing through Mr. Direck''s mind, bearing along momentary impressions and observations, "I don''t believe the country is on the verge of civil war," said Mr. Britling. "That''s a very pleasant young lady to have about," he said to Mrs. Britling as they went on towards the barn court. "And he _looks_ like a German," said Mr. Britling. "And you know, I don''t see that war coming," said Mr. Britling. "It''s like another world," said Mr. Britling, over his paper. Mr. Britling, who liked this sort of thing in a way, and yet at the same "Then you think it will be a long war, Mr. Britling?" said Lady Meade. "I thought war," said Mr. Direck, "was a thing when most people stood


id: 19229
title: Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  interesting phase in that great development of means of land transit things are possible at present, and none of which require any new shareholding class, the owners of a sort of property new in the world''s specific new groups which may presently develop very distinctive shop, this new, great, and expanding body of mechanics and engineers intelligence, and probably a common-class consciousness--a new body, a example, of this probable development of a great mass of educated and will presently display new masses segregating from a great confusion, must the new order of men come into visibly organized existence through stage, into the higher organism, the world-state of the coming years. occasion comes, will the new class of capable men on which we have educated class, an unprecedented sort of people, a New Republic possible line of development of this New Republic in the coming time. future world state to which all things are pointing.


id: 29472
title: Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  off-hand little things, jotting them down in a note-book as they came Surely those long-haired serious people who sat round my joke like old "I see what it is, George," said my uncle, "these literary people write "George," said my uncle, "_this Fashion is just brand-new vulgarity_. said they were engaged in that kind of thing. "When I have my photograph taken," said my uncle, "I always like to "They put," said my uncle, "a little chap "Don''t look at it in that light, George," said my uncle; and he added "George," said my uncle, suddenly, and I knew he had come upon a great "What do you _think_ of marriage, George?" said my uncle, after a "It''s like death," said my uncle; "I doubt it," said the man with the nose; "and even so, it is poor "I have to meet some new people to-morrow," said the man with the nose.


id: 17508
title: Certain Personal Matters
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  but once, I want some change in my life--to have this kind of thing and impertinent distinguished people: all kinds of bothering things. little things about every three months of my life. After a time little things begin to care on one hand, winsome worship on the other--until some little thing, a noise all the time, like the little boy who was left in the room with do any little thing without his knowing it, is not brought properly home "I should feel in this kitchen," said Euphemia, "like one of my little can''t do it again." A little practice, and this kind of thing may be dull man will presently be sought like the shadow of a great rock in a the good things I might have said had I thought of them opportunely, and things in a little paper of this kind; the fact is so.


id: 30340
title: The Passionate Friends
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  come when you will realize this, and want to know how life has gone with "Lady Mary," he said, "I''ve wanted to tell you----" "I wanted to tell you," said Justin, "I''ve found a little Japanese who''s "Next time I come," I said, "I shall bring you a letter. "Talking is better for all sorts of things," said my father, and wanted Yes, that would be the sort of thing I should have said in those days. "Those big things come slowly," said my father. "I thought you might come to-day," she said, and made me know what a thing of sex a woman is to a man--and how little "I want to see Lady Mary Justin," I said. time I thought human life was essentially a labor problem, that working For a time we said very little. "I''ll come just a little way with you, Stephen," she said, and I could


id: 30855
title: The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  "He''s rung so _loud!_" said the lady weakly--apparently to God. The door behind the neat white pillars opened, and a little red-nosed "I thought you was out by that window, sir," said the little old woman "I wish," said Lady Harman, with a sudden frankness and a little "Sir Isaac Harman?" said Mr. Brumley said Sir Isaac, "if it wasn''t for Lady Harman." "I expect you have a perfectly splendid car, Sir Isaac," said Lady "A rich man like that ought to be easy and generous," said Lady "Lady Beach-Mandarin met Sir Isaac at Black Strand," Mr. Brumley It was clear to Mr. Brumley that Lady Harman wanted to come alone--and "I want to know them," said Lady Harman. "I want," said Lady Harman, "to go to Kensington Gardens, I think. "He came in--to look at the garden," said Lady Harman. "It isn''t so much that he has explained, Mr. Brumley," said Lady Harman,


id: 21781
title: Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  organic mechanism, our sections upon the frog and dog-fish, and the alimentary canal or by certain organs called glands, which open be seen by gently scraping the roof of a frog''s mouth (the cells figured Figure 2 gives a dorsal view of the rabbit''s brain; a (Rabbit, Section 2) of the frog; the tail is absent-in a fish it would do Describe, with figures, the brain of a frog, and compare it with that body-wall muscle, and connected with a line of sense organs similar If the student will compare Figure 10 of the frog, and, like the corresponding arch in the frog, forms the carotid artery; frog, as compared with the rabbit and dog-fish, notably in the skull frog, amphioxus, rabbit, and dog-fish. 1. Compare the brain of the frog with that of the rabbit. 2. Compare the vertebrae of dog-fish, rabbit, and frog.


id: 5230
title: The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  "I thought, sir," said Mrs. Hall, "you''d prefer the clock--" "Very useful things indeed they are, sir," said Mrs. Hall. man''s face if I had him stopping in _my_ place," said Henfrey. "So be it," said Mrs. Hall, taking up the table-cloth and beginning "That room''s private!" said Hall, and the stranger shut the door said, and came round from behind the bar towards the parlour door. "Invisible Man," said Cuss, and rushed on to the window. "An Invisible Man!" said Mr. Marvel. "If you shout, I''ll smash your face," said the Invisible Man, "Invisible!" said Kemp, and sat down on a bedroom chair. "Good-night," said Kemp, and shook an invisible hand. "Money," said the Invisible Man, and went again to stare out of the "I don''t know about that tramp of mine," said the Invisible Man, "No," said the Invisible Man, and thought. "The Invisible Man!" said Kemp.


id: 4225
title: First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  People are too apt to suppose that in order to discuss morals a man must I think that the time has come when the human mind must take up Essentially man''s mind moves within limits depending upon his individual synthesis of the species, of the development of a common general idea, a In the world of ideas about me, I have found going on a great social and The common man of our civilized world loves not in anything won for Socialism, but for fine-thinking and living people of a general rule of life that all men may try to follow. development of the idea of the world commonweal in the collective mind. things, to one''s self control, the regulation of one''s personal life. of personal love between the individual and the great synthesis of which True love is a synthetic thing, an outcome of life, it is not a


id: 3691
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  six men within six inches of a gun, then we tried letting it fire as gun with thirty men, cavalry and infantry, in support comes out upon a The attacking player puts eight men within six inches of his gun and Thus for a force of 110 men and 3 guns, moved by one the gun is moved and not fired, then at least four men who are with the take the gun two feet, but if there are fewer cavalry-men than four and bodies of about 20 to 25 infantry-men and 12 to 15 cavalry to a gun. with about 6 infantry-men, 4 cavalry, and 1 gun. position; Red''s right, of 2 guns, 20 cavalry, and 37 infantry aim at the gun, and killed three of Red''s men. Red''s left gun, with four men Thus at more than two feet one infantry-man kills three cavalry-men, and fifteen cavalry-men one infantry-man.

title:
  Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys'' games and books.


id: 3690
title: Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars"
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  The jolliest indoor games for boys and girls demand a floor, and the home that has no floor upon which games may be played falls so far little about toy soldiers and the world to which they belong. THE GAME OF THE WONDERFUL ISLANDS THE GAME OF THE WONDERFUL ISLANDS islands, and put our soldiers in the little nests of drawers, and stand zoological garden, the town hall, a railway tunnel through the hill, a museum (away in the extreme right-hand corner), a church, a rifle Blue End has the railway station, four or five and so return to the railway station, extremely gratified by all we Of course the setting-out of the city is half the game. shop of the Jokil Company, and was building a Red End station near the FUNICULARS, MARBLE TOWERS, CASTLES AND WAR GAMES, BUT VERY LITTLE OF boards, the bricks, the soldiers, and the railway system--that


id: 159
title: The Island of Doctor Moreau
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  "Looks like it," said Montgomery. "It looks like it, doesn''t it?" said Montgomery, and turned towards "Look here, Captain," said Montgomery, with his lisp a little accentuated, "That man''s a passenger," said Montgomery. turning on him sharply, for I had seen danger in Montgomery''s white face. said the white-haired man, nodding towards the enclosure. "That''s it," said the elder man, promptly, looking at Montgomery; "Montgomery," said I, "what was that thing that came after me? M''ling, the black-faced man, Montgomery''s attendant, the first of "Come along, Prendick," said Montgomery, taking my arm; and I went "I saw something of the same kind," said I, "the first day I came here." Then far away up the beach a little grey Beast Man appeared, "Prendick," said Montgomery, turning his dull eyes to me. "It is this way, Man who walked in the Sea," said the grey Thing.


id: 456
title: The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  and things came and went in them; my dear mother, whom I had near shall do it yet,'' I said, and passed a row of frowsy little shops watching for the day--a great white star, come suddenly into the Men looking up, near blinded, at the star, saw "Ah!" said the man with the white face; "then perhaps you can we stopped, and presently over the hill-crest those war things came "Got it?" said Horrocks, standing with the door half open. "Come along," he said suddenly, and, gripping Raut''s arm in "Over the mountains I come," said Nunez, "out of the country "He comes," said the second blind man, "out of the rocks." "Come hither," said the third blind man, following his motion "Why did you not come when I called you?" said the blind man. "There is no such word as _see_," said the blind man, "My time will come," he said.


id: 10291
title: In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  END WAR," "THE WORLD SET FREE," "IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET," AND The idea of the League of Nations is so great a one the world if the powers that are capable of making war under modern when we discuss the League of Nations idea, is to think of some very of Nations _now_?" That is a question a great number of people would no League of Free Nations can hope to keep the peace unless every member peoples wish to take part in a permanent League of Free Nations it is limit of the necessary powers of an effective League of Free Nations. League of Free Nations has secure possession of the British mind. nature of a world-wide League of Nations to keep the peace securely in people or the German nationality or the civilized life of Germany. League of Nations making an end to war, an idea that has inspired


id: 11870
title: The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  "They look to me like little white fingers poking out of the brown," said "Pah!" he said, and suddenly turned away and went towards the "The very thing," he said, and faced this way, and then that. Here." He handed me out a little flat thing like a seidlitz-powder. He was a pale-faced little man, with dark eyes and a fine and very black "I see no reason," said he, "why a man should live like a "Has God got Hell up his sleeve then?" said the little man beside me. "Ah!" said the man with the white face; "then perhaps you can tell me--you "They don''t know we are after them," said the little man on the white After a time it came to the little man on the white horse that the "They don''t like this wind," said the little man, and dropped behind as "My lord!" said the little man.


id: 11640
title: Love and Mr. Lewisham
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  "Smith," said Lewisham, meeting his eye and recovering the full "You overrate your power, sir," said Mr. Lewisham, a little "Look at those clouds," said Lewisham abruptly, remembering the remark "That little path goes straight to Immering," said Mr. Lewisham. "I think _I_ shall have a shot at London," said Lewisham. "I hope you will like it," said Lewisham at the door of the "Good!" said Lewisham, suddenly emotional. "Oh, _damn_ Miss Heydinger!" said Lewisham, and suddenly, abruptly, "It will be a devilish close thing," said Lewisham with a quite tea one day," said Ethel, not waiting for Lewisham''s endorsement, "and "Hev you a mother living, Mr. Lewisham?" said Mrs. Chaffery suddenly, "_I_ say!" said Lewisham; "just look here!" "I''ll show you a way," said Lewisham. "I think you might get a man his tea, Ethel," said Lewisham, sitting "I think I can," said Lewisham. "I don''t, know," said Lewisham.


id: 11502
title: An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  Half the good things of the human mind are outside English altogether, The working man of to-day reads, talks, has general ideas and a fact of a working-class criticism of social values into play. we prosperous people, who have nearly all the good things of life and present conditions, and not a way to a better social state. Normal Social Life, and secondly: The Great State. way of living was emerging from the Normal Social Life and freeing Great State as an opposite to the Normal Social Life, which we have Normal Social Life of western Europe in the middle ages, but, unlike Mr. Belloc, he believed that, given private ownership of land and the contemporary humanity as a final thing nor the Normal Social Life as the general development of the Normal Social Life at all, are forces of wide be little or no doubt that the method of making men officials for life


id: 12163
title: The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  The thickset man came and stood by the shoulder of Graham. Graham hesitated, and in the other hand of the wild-eyed man he saw the "You must come away!" said the man in red in a resolute voice. "I am the man who was in the trance," said Graham. through the ribs of its body, Graham saw two little men, very minute and "I''m a dull man, older than I look, and forgetful," said Graham. "I know a few things," said the old man. but how things work together!" said the old man. "Men are strange," said the old man. "Men are strange," said the old man. "But you don''t know that the Sleeper died," said Graham, suddenly. "Now," said Ostrog, "comes the Council House," and slowly a black edge "_Must_ the world go this way?" said Graham with his emotions at the little man looked livid now and his eyes searched Graham''s face.


id: 12750
title: The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  "I suppose," the pale man said with a slight smile, "that you scarcely "I don''t like the look of it," said his housekeeper. "I don''t like those things that stick out," said his housekeeper. "It looks," said the housekeeper, "like a spider shamming dead." "They look to me like little white fingers poking out of the brown," "There are such queer things about orchids," he said one day; "It was," said Woodhouse, "more like a big bat than anything else in old gentleman whose son was a lawyer said he''d been thinking the thing "I shall paint a picture exactly as I like," said Harringay, calmly. "I drifted ten days," said the man with the scar. I said, ''you''re welcome''; and with a little difficulty he came out. "Look at that moth!" said Hapley, A new edition of a famous book, illustrated and printed in black and


id: 7308
title: The History of Mr. Polly
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  "You ought to go round with a show, O'' Man," said Mr. Polly. said Mr. Polly, feeling that things were not so bad. "Wish I''d looked him up a bit more while he was alive," said Mr. Polly. "Rooms in a new house always look a bit small," said Johnson. "No," he said with infinite meaning, and turned his eye on Mr. Polly. "I shall have my shop all right before long," said Mr. Polly. "Well, O'' Man?" said Johnson, when Mr. Polly came down to breakfast, "No way out this time, O'' Man," said Mr. Polly; and he went slowly "Bits of things," said Mr. Polly. "I''d like to have a look at him before I go," said Mr. Polly, thinking "Do I look like it?" said Mr. Polly. "Do I look like it?" said Mr. Polly. "Why don''t he come in?" said Mr. Polly. "Look here, Miriam," said Mr. Polly.


id: 6424
title: A Modern Utopia
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  possibility as we know them in the men and women of this world that a mighty difference had come to the world of men. Have I come to Utopia to hear this sort of thing? valleys open the world will open, Utopia, where men and women are I submit that to the modern minded man it can be no sort of Utopia general conception of the economic nature of the Utopian State. the species, in the case of the Utopian World State it absolutely things a specially free sort of property in this way, men would the world of to-day, but the discussion of the Utopian state of How would things be "different" in the Modern Utopia? The Modern Utopia is not only to be a sound and happy World State, little things of daily life interest them in a different way. types of personality Utopia presents, certain men and women of a


id: 11289
title: What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  This world-wide war means a general arrest of invention and enterprise, minority; a certain number of German Prussians who think war good for intelligent people in those great European countries who believe creating a State-overriding, war-preventing organisation of the world. war, is now the lively interest of a very great number of people. the essential conclusion of the great war, that the Central Powers and At the end of the war Great Britain will probably find herself with a This war has made Germany the central fact in all national affairs been forced upon Great Britain--for example, by the needs of the war; shown by Great Britain in this war, is the only possible type, The If Great Britain means business after this war, if she is to do her duty other peoples of the world; it is a new war-made feature of the


id: 11696
title: The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  Redwood, you know, had been measuring growing things of all sorts, Bensington, I know," he said, "but the fact is I put a little--not very "I know," said Redwood, and glanced at the giant chick upon the plate on "A little boy growing at that pace," said Mr. Bensington slowly, and "The House Agent," said Redwood, "is a thing with a big mouth and made "More time to tell her when you come back," said Cossar, thrusting him When things were a little ship-shape again Redwood went and stared at "My little boy can''t get on without the stuff," said Redwood. "Redwood," said Bensington; "it''s a curious thing to say, I know, "That man," said Redwood, "doesn''t know anything. Food''s a little late," said Redwood, with a note of exasperation in his "Whatever it dislocates," said Redwood, "my little boy must have the


id: 35920
title: The Sea Lady
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  "_Your_ house," said the Sea Lady, and shut her eyes for good and became understand, until that horrible tail began (and the fin of it, Mrs. Bunting told my cousin in a whispered confidence, went up and down and "And then you know," said the Sea Lady very gravely, "one''s hair!" _there_--!" said Mrs. Bunting, telling the story to my cousin Melville "Of course," said my cousin Melville, with, I know, a momentary "Like the tail of a big mackerel," said Mrs. Bunting, and he asked no "But really, you know," said my cousin Melville, protesting in the name "But I saw him only at a distance, you know," said the Sea Lady; and "I think, my dear, that you might trust my judgment a little," said Mrs. Bunting and paused. "A soul, you know," he said again, and looked at the Sea Lady with the "Look here, Melville," said Chatteris, "I want to know this.


id: 33889
title: The Salvaging Of Civilization
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  action impossible at the present time, in a world-wide common vision of Even in the schools and in the world of thought the established thing of a possible world state, but only on its life-saving aspects. to all mankind of knowledge and the idea of one world civilization and dominates my public life--the idea of a world politically united--of a The idea of a world state, though it looks a far greater and more projects, towards leagues of nations, world states and the like, between national idea in any old world state. system in the old world which, like the United States, is large enough when one speaks of a World State people think at once of some existing very briefly the life of an ordinary young man living in a World State to-day throughout all the modern states of the world, in a loss of


id: 34962
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  BOON, THE MIND OF THE RACE, THE WILD ASSES OF THE DEVIL, "You mustn''t push the analogy of Dodd''s mind too far," said Boon. "It''s a sort of subconscious mind," said Boon, seeming to take me "You see," Boon said, "you can''t now talk of literature without going "Putting the thing crassly," said Boon, "Deshman has got wind of a "You''re a little difficult to follow at times," said Wilkins. Wilkins the author began to think about the Mind of the Race quite "Something of that idea," said Boon, growing a little "The Mind of the Race," said Wilkins, "seems at times to me much more "But there are young people thinking," said Boon at last. "But it is the Mind of the Race," said Boon. One day a little time after the argument with Wilkins, Boon told me he "War," said Boon, turning his face towards Wilkins, "does nothing but

title:
  Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times


id: 35338
title: Marriage
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  Mrs. Pope said he shouldn''t say things like that. "Other people want to play," said her mother in a clear little "Marjorie''s winning, I think," said Mrs. Pope. When Marjorie said "Good-night," Mrs. Pope kissed her with an "I think," said Mr. Magnet looking at Marjorie, "I shall go up. "I don''t think I knew what I meant," said Marjorie, and Magnet gave a "I suppose women have as good brains as men," said Marjorie, "if it Mrs. Pope knew the wicked little flicker in Marjorie''s eye better than "If Marjorie, or Mrs. Pope, or Daffy...?" said Magnet. "I''m sorry if I''ve annoyed you," said Trafford, as Marjorie went after "I think I understand," said Trafford, with his eyes on Marjorie. "I want to tell you things," said Marjorie. "Oh, we don''t do things like that," said Trafford. "I suppose it''s the way that sort of thing gets done," said Marjorie,


id: 39162
title: Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  "You better look out, young Ann," said Sid, with that irreverent want of "I _would_ like to ''ave a girl," said Kipps. "It''s no good your whistling there, my boy," said Old Kipps in a loud, "Isn''t it!" said Kipps, feeling that the time had come for him to say "It''s somebody after your place very likely," said Old Kipps. "I seem able to say things to you like somehow," said Kipps. "I know," said Kipps, "only there''s such a lot of things I don''t seem to "They was up to all sorts of things," said Kipps, and then the two came know you like these things," she used to say, and Kipps said, "Oo I "It''s we''ve got to make it better," said Sid, and looked at Kipps. "Look here, Ann," said Kipps. "I know one thing," said Kipps. "I know one thing," said Kipps.


id: 33913
title: The Wonderful Visit
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  The Angel gave a shrug of the wing and turned round to look at the Vicar "Do you know," said the Vicar, "now that I come to think of it, it is "Thank you," said the Vicar as the Angel appeared to be warming to his "You don''t know what may happen to you in this world," said the Vicar, "_Your_ House!" said the Angel a little puzzled; but he took the Vicar''s "Our friend," said the Angel, moving his head at the Vicar. "He positively thinks I am a man!" said the Angel. "But he says he _is_ an Angel!" said the Vicar, staring out of his "_Are_ an Angel," said the Vicar. "He _says_ he is an Angel!" said the Vicar. "It is not so in the Angelic Land?" said the Vicar. "The fact is," said the Vicar, "this is no world for Angels."


id: 42989
title: The Plattner Story, and Others
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  "It was five years ago to-day that we began," he said to Woodhouse "Oh, _damn_!" said Monson suddenly, and abruptly rushed out of the room. "The very thing," he said, and faced this way and then that. Here." He handed me out a little flat thing like a "I don''t understand yet how you mean to work the thing," said Steevens. "Here!" said a voice behind him, and he saw the dark eyes "How should _I_ know she belonged to a Porroh man?" said Pollock He was a pale-faced little man, with dark eyes and a fine and very "Surely you don''t ''old with not having a bit of music on a Sunday, Mr. Coombes?" said the new guest, leaning back in the arm-chair, blowing "I never saw such a man as you," said Mrs. Coombes. "Half a minute," said the man with the glass eye.


id: 44867
title: The Discovery of the Future
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  consequences of the past, from this our life is to prepare the future. constantly upon the past without any thought of the future at all, and of mind that thinks of the future a sort of hair-splitting, almost like past, and the future depends for its causes upon the present. in things, there comes a sorting out of these two types of mind. the future is a possible and practicable thing. Let us consider just what an educated man of to-day knows of the past. To these limits man''s knowledge of the past was absolutely of a great number of things in the future is becoming a human Such, then, is the sort of knowledge of the future that I believe is future of humanity, was the highest of all conceivable things. It is possible to believe that all that the human mind has ever


id: 56484
title: The Future in America: A Search After Realities
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  of thing, I believed, was going on for a time, interesting personally mind of the idea that in writing of the Future in America I''m going to States are a people of great individual force of will, the clear strong When one talks to an American of his national purpose he seems a little as that "America is a great country, sir," that its future is gigantic American thing; it is the same process anywhere--only in America there rate in the State of New York at that time for a year--as I could earn little naked boys, free Americans, work for Mr. Borden, the New York Great Britain as in America, but Americans talk more and louder than bringing into being a new state--a feat no people in the world has yet meets all sorts of Boston people, one visits the State-House; it''s all these fine people more alive to present and future things, a little


