World Brain: the Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopedia

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World Brain:

The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia

by H.G. Wells

Contribution to the new Encyclopédie Française, August, 1937

It is probable that the idea of an encyclopaedia may undergo very considerable extension and elaboration in the near future. Its full possibilities have still to be realized. (((And nowadays, even more so, Herbert, old man.)))

The encyclopaedias of the past have sufficed for the needs of a cultivated...