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...things he is conditioned never to do: listen to reason and quit being careful. The same instruments, Wells argues, which have made Tewlers what they are—and the world what it is—can also make the world one community for the teaching, healing saving of Homo Tewler&#151for the establishment, indeed, of the Wellsian World State towards which this volume like much of his life's work, is a combined gadfly and sales talk. These instruments are chiefly the radio and the cinema—what Wells calls "canned teaching." The knowledge Wells would have them impart is chiefly scientific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tewleremia | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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