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THIS the latest of Mr. Wells's books, may well o be the latest-but-one before this review appears, so swift is the rush of his ideas, so urgent the message which he has for a civilization clatter ing blindly towards chaos. Here, as in so much of his work, we have yet another contribution towards that orderly world-scheme so dear to the heart of the ever-young, wise and keenly interested recruit to the ranks of the septuagenarians. The essays collected in the hundred and thirty pages of this slight and engrossing volume comprise a Friday evening discourse delivered at the Royal Institution, a lecture given in America, a contribution to the Encyclopédic Francaise, the presidential address to Section L of the British Association on ‘The Informative Content of Education’ and a series of appendices evoked by the comments of those sensitive souls ruffled by the more provocative parts of his addresses.
World Brain
By H. G. Wells. Pp. xvi+130. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 3s. 6d. net.
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FERGUSON, A. World Brain. Nature 141, 707–708 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141707a0
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