The Salvaging of CivilizationWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Philosophy
The Salvaging of Civilization
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Civilization, Modern -- 20th century; Education
Cinematograph, the, as an aid to teaching, 80, 161
Civilization, adjustment of political ideas necessary for, 46
effect of the Bible on, 101
impotence of, 1
the Bible of, 95 _et seq._
the war and, 43 _et seq._
College stage of education, 168
changed conditions of, 180
how it could be improved, 172
problem of its extension, 177
Comenius, political and educational ideas of, 95, 97, 138
Committees, good work by, 107
Communism and property, 115
Communists, Russian, and the Press, 186
Connecticut, State of, the Bible as its only law, 98
Conscience the basis of moral life, 20
Contemporary problems, complexity of, 3
Cosmogony of the Bible, the, 103-4
Customs, the, and European travel, 56
Declaration of Independence, 63, 107
Denmark, present-day conditions in, 45
Disarmament, ineffectual movements for, 13
Discovery, the age of, 6
Education a fundamental difficulty, 155
chief end of, 25
degradation of, 105
in the world state, 20, 90
necessary basis of, 103
neglect of language teaching, 145
past and present, 79, 104
primary obstacle to, 153
progressive character of, 166, 183
reorganization of, needed, 158, 165
Educational organization, a review of, 139
need of, 194
England before and after the war, 45
Epics and a modernized Bible, 125
Eugenic literature, 140, 141
Europe, and the League of Nations, 47
boundary question of, 54, 59, 61, 62
in the seventeenth century, 96
problem of air transport, 58
propaganda of patriotism in, 72
results of political disunion, 54
slow economic recovery of, 59
European travel, preparations needed for, 55
Evening continuation and technical schools, 169
Exchange, fluctuating nature of, 56, 57
Federal World State, an approaching reality, 80
Forecasts, a Book of, and the modernized Bible, 132
Foresight, need of, 133
France, national egotism of, 72
post-war decadence in, 45
Frontiers and the possibility of war, 59
Geography, improved method of teaching, 151
Germany, ebb in civilization in, 45
intensive nationalist education in, 72
Gladstone, Mr., a speech by, 171
Gramophones as aids to school teaching, 160
Gunpowder, discovery of, 6
Hamsun's _Growth of the Soil_, 124
Health and the citizen, 111
Hebrew Bible, the, 110
Henley, a poem by, 127
Herbert, Auberon, lectures by, 171
Higher education, a false conception of, 181
Historical books, value of illustrations and maps in, 110
History, and national egotism, 73
cardinal experiences in, 1
_History of the Ancient World_, 108
History teaching in schools, unsatisfactory nature of, 151
Holland, post-war condition of, 45
Human brotherhood, gospel of, 24
Human disorder, the key to, 192
Human outlook, the, 1
Human society, ancient and modern, 5
needs reconstruction, 11
Human unity and a world state, 75
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