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The World Set Free
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ISBN10: 1977735177
ISBN13: 9781977735171
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 28 2017
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781977735171
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 28 2017
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A frequent theme of Wells's work, as in his 1901 nonfiction book Anticipations, was the history of humans' mastery of power and energy through technological advance, seen as a determinant of human progress. The novel begins: The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. . . . Always down a lengthening record, save for a set-back ever and again, he is doing more.(Many of the ideas Wells develops here found a fuller development when he wrote The Outline of History in 1918-1919.)
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