After my grandfather died I was cleaning his attic when I found the book in a bookshelf.
The essays in the book all revolve around the concept of predicting how the world will look in the future based on certain trends identified by HG Wells.
Predictions of the future by people in the past are always interesting to read, and this book is especially so because some of Wells' predictions are strikingly accurate while others are wildly inaccurate. As a very learned and wise person his analysis is fascinating.
Here are some of the titles of the essays:
1. Man Becomes a Different Animal. Delusions about Human Fixity. (January 9, 1927)
2. What is Happening in China? Does it Foreshadow a New Government in the World? (January 23, 1927)
3. What is Fascism? Whither is it taking Italy? (February 9, 1927)
4. Doubts of Democracy. New Experiments in Government. (March 20, 1927)
5. Democracy under Revision: a Lecture delivered at Sorbonne on March 15, 1927.
6. The Absurdity of British Politics. A Shadow on the Whole World. What has to be Done about it? (August 7, 1927)
7. Baldwinism a Danger to the World. Wanted, a Coalition Government. The Deadlock and the Way out. (November 7, 1927)
8. Communism and Witchcraft. (August 21, 1927)
9. The Future of Labour. The Struggle between Capital and Labour. Controversial Hallucinations. (September 4, 1927)
10. What is the British Empire worth to Mankind? Meditations of an Empire Citizen. (September 18, 1927)
11. The Present uselessness and Danger of Aeroplanes. A Problem in Organization. (February 20, 1927)
12. Changes in the Art of War. Are Armies needed any longer? The Twilight of the Guards. (March 6, 1927)
13. Delusions about World Peace. The Price of Peace. (June 12, 1927)
14. The Possibility of War between Britain and America. Such a war is being prepared now. What are intelligent people to do about it? (October 2, 1927)
15. The Remarkable Vogue of Broadcasting: will it continue? (April 3, 1927)
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