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Herbert Wells

A Modern Utopia

  • Elishar citeretfor 3 år siden
    He would have different habits, different traditions, different knowledge, different ideas, different clothing, and different appliances, but, except for all that, he would be the same man. We very distinctly provided at the outset that the modern Utopia must have people inherently the same as those in the world.
  • amrrixanohar citeretfor 12 dage siden
    This is to be a holiday from politics and movements and methods
  • amrrixanohar citeretfor 13 dage siden
    the tangle of ways and means.
  • amrrixanohar citeretfor 13 dage siden
    That is our present enterprise. We are going to lay down certain necessary starting propositions, and then we shall proceed to explore the sort of world these propositions give us…
  • Soliloquios Literarioshar citeretfor 8 måneder siden
    We change from weaker to stronger lights, and each more powerful light pierces our hitherto opaque foundations and reveals fresh and different opacities below. We can never foretell which of our seemingly assured fundamentals the next change will not affect.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshar citeretfor 8 måneder siden
    You make your ideal clear, a scientific language you demand, without ambiguity, as precise as mathematical formulæ, and with every term in relations of exact logical consistency with every other. It will be a language with all the inflexions of verbs and nouns regular and all its constructions inevitable, each word clearly distinguishable from every other word in sound as well as spelling.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshar citeretfor 8 måneder siden
    You would begin to talk of scientific languages, of Esperanto, La Langue Bleue, New Latin, Volapuk, and Lord Lytton, of the philosophical language of Archbishop Whateley, Lady Welby's work upon Significs and the like
  • Soliloquios Literarioshar citeretfor 8 måneder siden
    The whole world will surely have a common language, that is quite elementarily Utopian, and since we are free of the trammels of convincing story-telling, we may suppose that language to be sufficiently our own to understand. Indeed, should we be in Utopia at all, if we could not talk to everyone? That accursed bar of language, that hostile inscription in the foreigner's eyes, “deaf and dumb to you, sir, and so—your enemy,” is the very first of the defects and complications one has fled the earth to escape.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshar citeretfor 8 måneder siden
    Then, for the first time, perhaps, we should realise from this unfamiliar heaven that not the world had changed, but ourselves—that we had come into the uttermost deeps of space
  • Soliloquios Literarioshar citeretfor 8 måneder siden
    Such late instances as Butler's satirical “Erewhon,” and Mr. Stead's queendom of inverted sexual conditions in Central Africa, found the Tibetan method of slaughtering the inquiring visitor a simple, sufficient rule
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