{"id":378700,"date":"2018-09-26T18:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T17:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/will-the-real-anti-semites-please-stand-up\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T18:31:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T17:31:14","slug":"will-the-real-anti-semites-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/will-the-real-anti-semites-please-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the real anti-Semites please stand up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Amongst the highly prolific author HG Wells\u2019 many publications is a less well-known book titled <em>A Short History of the World.<\/em> Given the potential immensity of such a subject, the fact that Wells produced a book of very modest length (my copy is a mere 350 pages or so) no doubt would encourage some to dismiss it as trite and superficial. Obviously it\u2019s superficial, but it might be reasonable to say the same of something twenty or fifty times longer \u2013 depending on how well it\u2019s written. But Wells\u2019 book is truly remarkable for its economy of language, with hardly a single unnecessary word used; and it\u2019s also remarkable for its scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Wells studied biology before he became a writer, and carved a meagre existence for himself as a teacher for almost ten years. Perhaps the early discipline of scientific method, together with the need to communicate new ideas to young minds, influenced much of his later writing style, because what he created with <em>Short History<\/em> is an amazingly compact and very readable collection of short essays covering a multitude of historical events from the creation of the Earth, through discussions on all the main religions, to the Russian Revolution \u2013 which took place a mere five years before he published his book.<\/p>\n<p>Few of the sixty-seven chapters exceed four pages in length, yet each chapter is packed with such a wealth of information that it\u2019s difficult not to be impressed with the depth of Wells\u2019 scholarship, because to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/09\/will-the-real-anti-semites-please-stand-up\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst the highly prolific author HG Wells\u2019 many publications is a less well-known book titled A Short History of the World. Given the potential immensity of such a subject, the fact that Wells produced a book of very modest length (my copy is a mere 350 pages or so) no doubt would encourage some to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}