tion>H. G. Wells
An Englishman Looks at the World
Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664630636
Table of Contents
(EASTBOURNE, August 5, 1912—three years later .)
THE PHILOSOPHER'S PUBLIC LIBRARY
THE SO-CALLED SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGY
THE SCHOOLMASTER AND THE EMPIRE
THE POSSIBLE COLLAPSE OF CIVILISATION
THE COMING OF BLIRIOT
(July, 1909.)
The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and throbbings. Then in elfin tones the real message comes through: "Bliriot has crossed the Channel. … An article … about what it means."
I make a hasty promise and go out and tell my friends.
From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps upon the water, and the iris and tamarisk are all asway with the south-west wind that was also blowing yesterday.
