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Upon Hr. HG Wells the fascination. of the future has always had at least en great an influence is the problems of the present. In the long list of books with which ha has enriched English literar in search of non-existens food ture, nearly twenty are the results of famenldering ruins of the projection of his imagination into is the prospect before har

the whole institution of war is destroynd ad human ancisty is established on a peace basis-not doubtfully or equivo cally but with all its consequences.

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sets out to build a new earth ha "Alla, his readers with the thrill of incomparable adventure. His excur sions into the realm of war journalis also, although they have raised starts of hostile criticism in many quarters, ara yet parked by a sanity and clearness of judgment which must commend them to every unprejudiced student. If be is not what some have hailed him, the first intellectual asset after President Wilson which the Allies possess, he is at least a factor of great weight. And he not only has the "goods" be has the market too. He is even more widely read in Amerion than in Britain he is better known in Japan than any other European author while there is not a book-abop of any significance in France, Germans. Switzerland, Russia," or Sweden where his books, trasslated into the language of the country, are not to be obtained and are not in wide

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The new conditions "bring thems só close. together and give them such extravagant powers of mutual injury that they mast either sink nations! pride and dyasatia ambitions in subordination to the com mon wellare of mankind or else atterly shatter one another." The only possi bility of national security-unless we accept the Prussian ice of, one State's world domination, militarily enforced is to turn the world into s operative concern, into a world union of republics, trading freely with one another, guaranteeing each other free- dom and maintaining a world-wide peaceand a new reign of law for mankind“ In a word, the League of Free Nations must supersede Empire; for a Mr. Wells sees. Empire, like the city stato and the tribal organisation, has no finality. It is a provinsial thing which must give place to a better synthesis under the press of changing conditions: and tall why dismiss the idea as the impossible dream of an unpracticable

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