Length11h 12m
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Excerpt: "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: "Blériot 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 whitecaps upon the water, and the iris and tamarisk are all asway with the south-west wind that was also blowing yesterday. M. Blériot has done very well, and Mr. Latham, his rival, had jolly bad luck. That is what it means to us first 2of all. It also, I reflect privately, means that I have underestimated the possible stability of aeroplanes. I did not expect anything of the sort so soon. This is a good five years before my reckoning of the year before last. We all, I think, regret that being so near we were not among the fortunate ones who saw that little flat shape skim landward out of the blue; surely they have an enviable memory; and then we fell talking and disputing about what that swift arrival may signify. It starts a swarm of questions."
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GenrePsychology, Politics and Government
Length11 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE COMING OF BLÉRIOT
15TRAFFIC AND REBUILDING
2MY FIRST FLIGHT
16THE SO-CALLED SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGY
3OFF THE CHAIN
17DIVORCE
4OF THE NEW REIGN
18THE SCHOOLMASTER AND THE EMPIRE
5WILL THE EMPIRE LIVE?
19THE ENDOWMENT OF MOTHERHOOD
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6THE LABOUR UNREST
20DOCTORS
7SOCIAL PANACEAS
21AN AGE OF SPECIALISATION
8SYNDICALISM OR CITIZENSHIP?
22IS THERE A PEOPLE?
9THE GREAT STATE
23THE DISEASE OF PARLIAMENTS
10THE COMMON SENSE OF WARFARE
24THE AMERICAN POPULATION
11THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL
25THE POSSIBLE COLLAPSE OF CIVILISATION
12THE PHILOSOPHER’S PUBLIC LIBRARY
26THE IDEAL CITIZEN
13ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC
27SOME POSSIBLE DISCOVERIES
14ABOUT SIR THOMAS MORE
28THE HUMAN ADVENTURE
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