item: #1 of 32 id: 10291 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace date: None words: 36389 flesch: 62 summary: I can conceive no such Peace Congress as those that have settled up after other wars, settling up after this war. It would be a dismaying thing to realize that one were writing anything here which was not the possible thought of great multitudes of other people, and capable of becoming the common thought of mankind. keywords: africa; allies; britain; british; country; day; democracy; empire; german; government; idea; imperialism; league; mankind; men; nations; party; peace; people; powers; present; public; question; representation; states; system; things; time; united; vote; want; war; way; world cache: 10291.txt plain text: 10291.txt item: #2 of 32 id: 11289 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War date: None words: 62654 flesch: 60 summary: In times of war peoples may hate abroad and with some unanimity. Every now and then through the austere bustle of London in war time drifts a last practitioner of the eternal feminine--with the air of a foreign visitor, with the air of devotion to some peculiar cult. keywords: affairs; allies; america; braintree; britain; british; business; case; century; class; country; day; education; empire; end; england; english; europe; european; example; france; french; future; germany; government; great; idea; lawyer; life; matter; men; mind; new; peace; people; power; present; press; public; question; russia; sort; spirit; state; system; things; time; united; war; way; women; work; world; world peace; years cache: 11289.txt plain text: 11289.txt item: #3 of 32 id: 11502 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters date: None words: 102017 flesch: 55 summary: They are great men, not local men. They play a game, a long and interesting game, with parties as sides, a game that rewards the industrious player with prominence, place, power and great rewards, and the less that game involves the passionate interests of other men, the less it draws them into participation and angry interference, the better for the steady development of the politician's career. keywords: american; believe; business; case; children; class; come; community; conditions; country; course; day; development; discussion; doubt; education; empire; end; english; example; fact; form; future; general; good; government; half; hand; history; human; idea; knowledge; labour; life; little; living; man; matter; men; method; mind; national; need; new; novel; order; organisation; party; people; phase; place; point; population; power; present; property; public; quality; science; sense; service; set; social; socialism; sort; spirit; state; system; things; thought; time; tradition; want; war; way; women; work; working; world; years cache: 11502.txt plain text: 11502.txt item: #4 of 32 id: 11640 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: Love and Mr. Lewisham date: None words: 66834 flesch: 84 summary: The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love--indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third--and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. To judge by the room Mr. Lewisham thought little of Love but much on Greatness. keywords: bonover; book; chaffery; chapter; come; course; day; days; dear; door; dunkerley; end; ethel; eyes; face; girl; good; half; hand; heydinger; home; know; lagune; letter; lewisham; life; look; love; man; matter; medium; mind; miss; moment; mrs; paper; parkson; people; place; right; room; roses; school; smithers; sort; street; table; things; thought; time; voice; way; white; work; world cache: 11640.txt plain text: 11640.txt item: #5 of 32 id: 11696 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth date: None words: 76244 flesch: 82 summary: And presently little Redwood, pioneer of the new race, first child of all who ate the food, was crawling about his nursery, smashing furniture, biting like a horse, pinching like a vice, and bawling gigantic baby talk at his Nanny and Mammy and the rather scared and awe-stricken Daddy, who had set this mischief going. Said he didn't see. keywords: bensington; big; boy; caddles; caterham; children; coming; cossar; course; day; days; doctor; door; eyes; face; farm; feet; food; giant; good; growing; growth; half; hand; head; herakleophorbia; house; lady; life; look; man; men; mind; moment; mrs; near; new; people; place; presently; rats; redwood; right; road; round; saw; sir; skinner; son; sort; space; things; think; thir; thought; time; vicar; voice; want; wasps; way; window; winkles; work; world cache: 11696.txt plain text: 11696.txt item: #6 of 32 id: 11870 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories date: None words: 164041 flesch: 83 summary: You see--in this dream, anyhow--I had been a big man, the sort of man men come to trust in, to group themselves about. Little men in canoes upon sunlit oceans would come floating out of nothingness, incubating the eggs of prehistoric monsters unawares; violent conflicts would break out amidst the flower-beds of suburban gardens; I would discover I was peering into remote and mysterious worlds ruled by an order logical indeed but other than our common sanity. keywords: air; ants; arm; away; bed; bit; black; blind; blue; boat; body; cave; come; coming; coombes; course; crystal; dark; darkness; day; days; dear; death; door; dream; earth; end; eyes; face; fanny; feel; feet; fotheringay; gip; glass; god; good; great; green; grey; half; hand; hapley; head; heart; high; hill; holroyd; horrocks; house; human; jane; kind; left; life; little; looking; lord; man; manner; matter; men; mind; miss; moment; mrs; night; people; place; plattner; raut; red; room; round; saw; second; set; shop; sky; sort; space; star; story; sun; table; things; think; thought; time; valley; voice; wall; water; way; wedderburn; white; winchelsea; window; woman; work; world; years cache: 11870.txt plain text: 11870.txt item: #7 of 32 id: 12163 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes date: None words: 77189 flesch: 84 summary: White men must be mastered by white men. I ought not to judge other men by myself, perhaps. keywords: air; asano; black; blue; city; council; crowd; darkness; day; days; end; eyes; face; feet; felt; flying; graham; half; hall; hand; house; howard; isbister; life; light; like; lincoln; london; machine; man; master; men; mind; moment; new; ostrog; people; place; red; room; rose; shouting; sleeper; space; things; thought; time; tramp; voice; want; way; ways; white; wind; work; world; years; yellow cache: 12163.txt plain text: 12163.txt item: #8 of 32 id: 12750 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents date: None words: 56385 flesch: 86 summary: Said he: I forget myself. By M. KAUFMANN, M.A. _--Crown 8vo. keywords: 8vo; author; azuma; bailey; baring; bird; black; book; college; crown; crown 8vo; davidson; day; door; edition; english; evans; eyes; face; good; green; half; hand; hapley; harringay; head; holroyd; hooker; house; kind; know; left; life; lord; m.a; man; moment; mrs; new; night; pawkins; people; place; red; river; room; round; saw; second; story; thing; thought; time; water; watkins; way; white; work cache: 12750.txt plain text: 12750.txt item: #9 of 32 id: 14060 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: Mr. Britling Sees It Through date: None words: 143056 flesch: 80 summary: In Matching's Easy, as Mr. Britling presently explained to Mr. Direck, there are half-a-dozen old people who have never set eyes on London in their lives--and do not want to. Mr. Direck had learnt at the main-line junction that he had to tell the guard to stop the train for Matching's Easy; it only stopped by request; the thing was getting better and better; and when Mr. Direck seized his grip and got out of the train there was just one little old Essex station-master and porter and signalman and everything, holding a red flag in his hand and talking to Mr. Britling about the cultivation of the sweet peas which glorified the station. keywords: american; army; belgium; black; boys; british; britling; business; carmine; cecily; cissie; coming; corner; country; course; day; days; dead; dear; direck; dower; end; england; english; eyes; face; father; feel; france; game; garden; german; god; good; guns; half; hand; head; heinrich; herr; hold; house; hugh; idea; kind; know; lady; left; letter; letty; life; little; london; look; looking; love; man; matching; matter; men; mind; moment; morning; mrs; new; people; place; play; real; right; road; round; section; sense; set; son; sort; talk; teddy; tell; things; think; thinking; thought; time; time mr; understand; want; war; way; women; work; world; writing; years cache: 14060.txt plain text: 14060.txt item: #10 of 32 id: 159 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Island of Doctor Moreau date: None words: 44447 flesch: 85 summary: They seemed to me then to be brown men; but their limbs were oddly swathed in some thin, dirty, white stuff down even to the fingers and feet: I have never seen men so wrapped up before, and women so only in the East. They had lank black hair, almost like horsehair, and seemed as they sat to exceed in stature any race of men I have seen. keywords: animal; beach; beast; black; creature; day; enclosure; eyes; face; grey; half; hand; head; human; island; law; little; m'ling; man; men; mind; montgomery; pain; people; round; sea; thing; thought; time; trees; voice; water; way; white cache: 159.txt plain text: 159.txt item: #11 of 32 id: 17508 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: Certain Personal Matters date: None words: 56193 flesch: 75 summary: After a time little things begin to appear through the violent discords: little scraps of melody--a shy tenderness in her smile that peeps out at you and vanishes, a something that is winning, looking out of her eyes. One might call such little things Wardour Street curses. keywords: art; beauty; black; blade; blue; book; business; case; chess; common; conversation; course; day; days; doubt; end; euphemia; eye; face; find; flowers; food; good; green; hair; half; hand; head; home; house; human; instance; kind; lady; left; life; light; literature; look; love; man; matter; men; mind; paper; people; person; place; professor; reader; reason; sea; seaside; set; spelling; things; thought; time; want; water; way; white; wife; woman; work; world; years cache: 17508.txt plain text: 17508.txt item: #12 of 32 id: 19229 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought date: None words: 81070 flesch: 49 summary: There is no body of great men either in England or America, no intelligence in the British Court, that might by any form of recognition compensate the philosophical or scientific writer for poverty and popular neglect. Save for their liability to such attacks, a few hundreds of such men could hold positions of a quite vast extent, and a few thousand might hold a frontier. keywords: believe; body; british; business; case; century; children; city; class; coming; conditions; country; day; development; end; english; example; fact; forces; form; french; future; general; german; great; hand; history; house; human; land; language; life; man; mass; matter; means; men; miles; mind; nature; new; number; order; organization; past; people; place; point; population; possibilities; power; present; process; public; purpose; railway; republic; science; sort; state; system; things; time; trade; traffic; type; war; way; work; world; years cache: 19229.txt plain text: 19229.txt item: #13 of 32 id: 21781 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata date: None words: 57310 flesch: 67 summary: are certain lymph spaces, the metapleural canals, between which a small invagination (i.e., a pushing-in), at., of the outer epidermis occurs; n.c. is the notochord, and s.c. Behind these trabeculae comes the notochord (n.c.), and around its anterior extremity is a paired tract of cartilage, the parachordals (p.c.). keywords: amphioxus; animal; anterior; arch; artery; blood; body; bone; brain; canal; cartilage; case; cavity; cells; compare; cut; development; diagram; dog; dorsal; duct; figure; fish; form; frog; gland; heart; internal; left; liver; median; nerve; organs; parts; position; rabbit; right; second; section; sheet; skull; spinal; structure; student; system; tissue; vein; ventral; vertebrata; view; wall; yolk cache: 21781.txt plain text: 21781.txt item: #14 of 32 id: 29472 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences date: None words: 18909 flesch: 81 summary: Is it not open to such men as yourself to discover new men? Besides love, interrupted the young man thoughtfully, there are other things worth living for--duty. keywords: art; bagshot; day; face; gentleman; george; good; hair; hand; ideals; kind; life; love; man; marriage; men; mind; music; new; nose; people; thing; time; uncle; way; woman; world cache: 29472.txt plain text: 29472.txt item: #15 of 32 id: 30340 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Passionate Friends date: None words: 106464 flesch: 78 summary: Not doing little things for other people--who aren't doing anything at all. They were wonderful little men to watch. keywords: america; book; burnmore; business; children; course; dark; day; days; dear; empire; end; england; eyes; face; father; going; good; got; half; hand; heart; high; history; home; house; human; ideas; justin; kind; labor; lady; left; letter; life; lives; living; london; look; love; making; man; mankind; mary; matter; mean; men; mind; moment; morning; new; night; passion; people; philip; place; quality; rachel; self; sense; set; siddons; sky; sort; south; state; stephen; story; stratton; talk; tarvrille; things; thinking; thought; time; voice; want; war; way; women; work; world; write; writing; years cache: 30340.txt plain text: 30340.txt item: #16 of 32 id: 30855 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman date: None words: 132463 flesch: 77 summary: You will be Lady Harman, he exulted; _Lady_ Harman. Horatio Blenker, Sir Isaac's editor, showed a disposition to be socially very helpful, and after Mrs. Blenker had called in a state of worldly instructiveness, there was a little dinner at the Blenkers' to introduce young Lady Harman to the great political world. keywords: air; black; brumley; business; car; children; come; course; dark; day; days; door; effect; elly; end; eyes; face; feeling; garden; georgina; girls; good; hand; head; home; hostels; house; husband; idea; isaac harman; kind; lady beach; lady harman; left; life; little; london; look; love; mandarin; manner; marriage; matter; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; open; pembrose; people; place; point; quality; read; right; room; round; sawbridge; sense; set; sir isaac; snagsby; social; sort; strand; susan; table; talk; tea; things; thinking; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; wife; window; woman; work; world; years cache: 30855.txt plain text: 30855.txt item: #17 of 32 id: 33889 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Salvaging Of Civilization date: None words: 51484 flesch: 64 summary: Is there any precedent to justify us in hoping that such a change in world ideas is possible? Now I have dwelt on these differences between America and Europe because they involve an absolute difference in outlook towards world peace projects, towards leagues of nations, world states and the like, between the American and the European. keywords: american; bible; book; british; civilization; college; community; conditions; day; education; empire; europe; european; good; history; human; idea; life; mankind; men; minds; nations; need; new; people; present; school; schooling; social; sort; states; teaching; things; time; united; use; want; war; way; work; world; world state; years cache: 33889.txt plain text: 33889.txt item: #18 of 32 id: 33913 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Wonderful Visit date: None words: 39347 flesch: 87 summary: Can you do Imitations, Mr Angel? said Lady Hammergallow. I wonder if you and Mr Angel could manage a duet? said Lady Hammergallow to the Curate from Iping Hanger, who was looking preternaturally gloomy. keywords: angel; angelic; course; crump; curate; dear; doctor; eyes; face; gotch; hammergallow; hand; head; jehoram; john; kind; lady; land; life; man; mendham; mr angel; mrs; music; pain; people; saw; sir; story; things; thought; time; vicar; village; way; wings; world cache: 33913.txt plain text: 33913.txt item: #19 of 32 id: 34962 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 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 date: None words: 48456 flesch: 72 summary: But they do serve to emphasize the essence of--what shall I call it?--Boonism, the idea that there is a great collective mental process going on in many minds, and that it is impertinent and distracting to single out persons, great men, groups and schools, coteries and Academies. 'Little men have a decided inclination for big women, and _vice versâ_; and indeed in a little man the preference for big women will be so much the more passionate if he himself was begotten by a big father, and only remains little through the influence of his mother; because he has inherited from his father the vascular system and its energy which was able to supply a large body with blood. keywords: asses; author; blandish; book; boon; chapter; course; day; devil; dodd; end; english; eyes; face; find; george; god; good; greatness; hallery; hand; house; human; idea; illustration; james; life; literature; lord; man; men; mind; miss; new; people; place; public; race; reading; sense; sort; stoker; story; talk; things; thinking; thought; time; war; way; wild; wilkins; world; writing; young cache: 34962.txt plain text: 34962.txt item: #20 of 32 id: 35338 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: Marriage date: None words: 151995 flesch: 78 summary: Mr. Magnet was shaking his head very, very sagely, and saying: Rather a stiff job for little Marjorie, and her father was saying she would be steadier when she married. The two Carmel boys and a cousin, two greyhounds and a chow had come to see her off; they had made a brilliant and prosperous group on the platform and extorted the manifest admiration of two youthful porters, and it had been altogether too much for Marjorie Pope to admit it was the family custom--except when her father's nerves had to be considered--to go third class. keywords: air; aunt; business; children; come; coming; course; daffy; daughter; day; days; dear; end; eyes; face; father; find; fine; fire; girl; good; great; hair; half; hand; head; home; house; human; husband; idea; kind; lady; lee; left; let; life; london; look; looking; love; magnet; making; man; manner; marjorie; matter; mean; men; mind; moment; money; mother; movement; mrs; new; open; people; place; play; plessington; pope; research; rich; right; room; round; saw; second; self; sense; set; sir; snow; social; solomonson; sort; study; table; talk; tea; theodore; things; think; thought; time; trafford; voice; want; water; way; white; wife; women; work; world; years; young cache: 35338.txt plain text: 35338.txt item: #21 of 32 id: 35920 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Sea Lady date: None words: 41062 flesch: 85 summary: And that's why she keeps up those long conversations with Mr. Melville, I suppose, and why Fred goes about neglecting Mabel---- My dear! said Mrs. Bunting. Said, 'I've been very much deceived in you, Miss Waters--very much indeed.' keywords: adeline; bunting; chatteris; course; cousin; cousin melville; dear; eyes; face; fred; glendower; good; hand; lady; life; man; melville; mermaid; mind; miss; moment; mrs; parker; people; sea; sea lady; sort; things; thought; time; want; way; world cache: 35920.txt plain text: 35920.txt item: #22 of 32 id: 3690 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" date: None words: 6870 flesch: 73 summary: With the larger ones we make islands and archipelagos on our floor while the floor is a sea, or we make a large island or a couple on the Venice pattern, or we pile the smaller on the larger to make hills when the floor is a level plain, or they roof in railway stations or serve as bridges, in such manner as I will presently illustrate. I have now given two general types of floor game; but these are only just two samples of delightful and imagination-stirring variations that can be contrived out of the toys I have described. keywords: boards; bricks; floor; game; island; railway; red; right; soldiers; station; town; trees cache: 3690.txt plain text: 3690.txt item: #23 of 32 id: 3691 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 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. date: None words: 15662 flesch: 74 summary: It follows, therefore, that if after the adjudication of a melee a player moves up more men into touch with the survivors of this first melee, and so constitutes a second melee, any prisoners made in the first melee will not count as combatants in the second melee. There was no effective cover whatever upon my right that would have permitted an advance up to the church, and so I decided to concentrate my whole force in a rush upon Hook's Farm, while I staved off his left with gun fire. keywords: cavalry; country; farm; fire; force; game; gun; guns; infantry; man; men; moves; player; prisoners; red cache: 3691.txt plain text: 3691.txt item: #24 of 32 id: 39162 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul date: None words: 113820 flesch: 84 summary: Hitherto he had discarded that dangerous letter almost altogether, but now he would pull up at words beginning with h and draw a sawing breath--rather like a startled kitten--and then aspirate with vigour. Said Kipps one day, _As_ Pornick, the haberdasher, I may say at once, was, according to old Kipps, a blaring jackass; he was a teetotaller, a nyar, nyar, 'im-singing Methodis', and altogether distasteful and detrimental, he and his together, to true Kipps ideals, so far as little Kipps could gather them. keywords: air; ann; artie; aunt; ave; bit; book; boy; buggins; chap; chitterlow; class; coote; course; day; days; door; end; ere; eyes; face; fact; folkestone; gentleman; girl; good; half; hand; hat; head; heart; helen; high; house; jest; kipps; lady; left; life; london; look; looking; man; manner; masterman; matter; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; mrs; new; people; pierce; place; pounds; right; room; round; shalford; shop; sid; social; sort; space; street; table; talk; talking; tea; things; thought; time; took; uncle; voice; walshingham; want; way; window; world; year; young cache: 39162.txt plain text: 39162.txt item: #25 of 32 id: 4225 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life date: None words: 56258 flesch: 62 summary: Man, thinking man, suffers from intellectual over-confidence and a vain belief in the universal validity of reasoning. It is through military urgencies alone that many men can be brought to consent to the collective endowment of research, to public education and to a thousand interferences with their private self-seeking. keywords: beauty; belief; case; chapter; development; end; fact; faith; general; good; human; idea; individual; life; living; love; man; matter; men; mind; motives; number; order; people; personal; present; purpose; right; rule; self; socialism; sort; species; state; system; terms; things; thought; time; want; war; way; women; work; world cache: 4225.txt plain text: 4225.txt item: #26 of 32 id: 42989 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Plattner Story, and Others date: None words: 79736 flesch: 82 summary: Said he wanted the money for his stock, or some such rubbish. And little transparent things in the water developed a faint glint of luminosity, and shot past him in faint greenish streaks. keywords: arm; aubrey; bed; black; body; coombes; course; dark; darkness; day; door; end; eyes; face; feet; girl; glass; good; green; half; hand; head; heart; hill; hinchcliff; horrocks; jane; left; life; light; little; man; matter; mind; minute; moment; monson; mrs; open; people; place; plattner; pollock; porroh; raut; red; room; round; sky; story; table; thing; thought; time; vair; voice; water; way; wedderburn; white; wife; william; window; woman; woodhouse; world cache: 42989.txt plain text: 42989.txt item: #27 of 32 id: 44867 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Discovery of the Future date: None words: 9597 flesch: 58 summary: All this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amid the stars. And now, if it has been possible for men by picking out a number of suggestive and significant looking things in the present, by comparing them, criticising them, and discussing them, with a perpetual insistence upon Why? without any guiding tradition, and indeed in the teeth of established beliefs, to construct this amazing searchlight of inference into the remoter past, is it really, after all, such an extravagant and hopeless thing to suggest that, by seeking for operating causes instead of for fossils, and by criticising them as persistently and thoroughly as the geological record has been criticised, it may be possible to throw a searchlight of inference forward instead of backward, and to attain to a knowledge of coming things as clear, as universally convincing, and infinitely more important to mankind than the clear vision of the past that geology has opened to us during the nineteenth century? Let us grant that anything to correspond with the memory, anything having the same relation to the future that memory has to the past, is out of the question. keywords: day; future; human; knowledge; man; mind; past; people; present; sort; things; world cache: 44867.txt plain text: 44867.txt item: #28 of 32 id: 456 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories date: None words: 43923 flesch: 85 summary: You see--in this dream, anyhow--I had been a big man, the sort of man men come to trust in, to group themselves about. I remember little things. keywords: away; azuma; black; blind; country; day; days; door; dream; eyes; face; garden; half; hand; holroyd; horrocks; life; man; men; moment; night; nunez; people; place; raut; red; round; sky; star; things; think; thought; time; valley; voice; wall; way; white; world cache: 456.txt plain text: 456.txt item: #29 of 32 id: 5230 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance date: None words: 49921 flesch: 87 summary: While these things were going on in the parlour, and while Mr. Huxter was watching Mr. Marvel smoking his pipe against the gate, not a dozen yards away were Mr. Hall and Teddy Henfrey discussing in a state of cloudy puzzlement the one Iping topic. Said he'd consider it. keywords: adye; air; books; bunting; door; eyes; face; feet; glass; good; hall; hand; head; henfrey; house; kemp; left; light; man; mariner; marvel; moment; mrs; open; parlour; people; place; room; round; sir; stranger; street; table; tell; things; thought; time; voice; way; white; window cache: 5230.txt plain text: 5230.txt item: #30 of 32 id: 56484 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Future in America: A Search After Realities date: None words: 61668 flesch: 63 summary: Men are makers--American men, I think, more than most men--and amidst even the catastrophic jumble of Chicago one finds the same creative forces at work that are struggling to replan a greater Boston, and that turned a waste of dumps and swamps and cabbage-gardens into Central Park, New York. , one must admit, tremendous justifications for the belief in a sort of automatic ascent of American things to unprecedented magnificences, an ascent so automatic that indeed one needn't bother in the slightest to keep the whole thing going. keywords: america; americans; black; boston; business; century; chicago; children; class; coming; community; country; day; development; doubt; effect; end; england; english; example; fact; future; good; growth; half; house; human; life; london; macqueen; man; matter; men; mind; nation; new; new york; people; place; point; population; power; present; president; process; progress; property; public; quality; sense; social; sort; state; things; think; thought; time; want; washington; way; white; work; world; years; york; young cache: 56484.txt plain text: 56484.txt item: #31 of 32 id: 6424 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: A Modern Utopia date: None words: 94242 flesch: 64 summary: The tendency is to give a practically permanent tenure to good men. Section 4 I follow the Common Rule, as many men do, said my double, answering my allusion to his uniform almost apologetically. keywords: book; botanist; case; children; class; community; conditions; course; day; development; double; doubt; earth; end; energy; example; eye; face; fact; footnote; freedom; general; good; great; hand; human; idea; imagination; individual; labour; laws; life; man; marriage; matter; men; mind; minimum; moment; money; nature; need; new; number; order; organisation; people; place; plato; poietic; power; present; property; public; quality; question; race; road; rule; samurai; science; section; self; set; social; sort; state; things; think; thought; time; utopia; utopians; way; women; work; world; world state cache: 6424.txt plain text: 6424.txt item: #32 of 32 id: 7308 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The History of Mr. Polly date: None words: 70582 flesch: 83 summary: The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells Chapter the First Beginnings, and the Bazaar I Hole! said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: 'Ole! And Mr. Polly sat on the stile and hated the whole scheme of life--which was at once excessive and inadequate as a solution. keywords: annie; ave; bicycle; bit; black; business; come; day; door; eyes; face; fire; fishbourne; going; good; hand; hat; head; house; inn; jim; johnson; kik; lady; larkins; left; life; look; man; manner; mind; miriam; moment; mrs; new; parsons; pentstemon; people; place; plump; polly; punt; right; room; round; rumbold; rusper; sense; shop; sort; street; things; thought; time; uncle; uncle jim; voice; voules; wall; want; way; window; woman; world; years cache: 7308.txt plain text: 7308.txt