All the Knowledge in the World by Simon Garfield

Author:Simon Garfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

His American lectures were a refined précis of an address delivered the year before at the Royal Institution in London. There he called his “oligarchy of professors” and other exceptionally competent people “a sort of modern priesthood,” although religion itself would not play a part. Instead, like Plato, “they would make the philosopher king.”

For the sake of argument, Wells placed himself in the role of “ordinary educated citizen.”

I will ask you to imagine how this World Encyclopaedia organisation would enter into his life and how it would affect him. From his point of view the World Encyclopaedia would be a row of volumes in his own home or in some neighbouring house or in a convenient public library or in any school or college, and in this row of volumes he would, without any great toil or difficulty, find in clear understandable language, and kept up to date, the ruling concepts of our social order, the outlines and main particulars in all fields of knowledge, an exact and reasonably detailed picture of our universe, a general history of the world . . .

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