The way the world is going

About this eBook

Author

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

Title

The way the world is going : Guesses & forecasts of the years ahead

Original Publication

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1927, copyright 1929.

Credits

Sean/IB@DP

Language

English

LoC Class

D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

Subject

English essays -- 20th century

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 77242

Release Date

November 16, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE WAY THE WORLD IS GOING
2. 2.NOTE
3. 3.ACKNOWLEDGMENT
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.I MAN BECOMES A DIFFERENT ANIMAL. DELUSIONS ABOUT HUMAN FIXITY
6. 6.II WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CHINA? DOES THE KUOMINTANG FORESHADOW A NEW SORT OF GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD?
7. 7.III WHAT IS FASCISM? WHITHER IS IT TAKING ITALY?
8. 8.IV DOUBTS OF DEMOCRACY. NEW EXPERIMENTS IN GOVERNMENT
9. 9.V DEMOCRACY UNDER REVISION
10. 10.VI THE ABSURDITY OF BRITISH POLITICS: A SHADOW ON THE WHOLE WORLD. WHAT HAS TO BE DONE ABOUT IT?
11. 11.VII BALDWINISM A DANGER TO THE WORLD. WANTED, A COALITION GOVERNMENT. THE DEADLOCK AND THE WAY OUT
12. 12.VIII COMMUNISM AND WITCHCRAFT
13. 13.IX THE FUTURE OF LABOUR. THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOUR. CONTROVERSIAL HALLUCINATIONS
14. 14.X WHAT IS THE BRITISH EMPIRE WORTH TO MANKIND? MEDITATIONS OF AN EMPIRE CITIZEN
15. 15.XI THE PRESENT USELESSNESS AND DANGER OF AEROPLANES. A PROBLEM IN ORGANIZATION
16. 16.XII CHANGES IN THE ARTS OF WAR. ARE ARMIES NEEDED ANY LONGER? THE TWILIGHT OF THE GUARDS
17. 17.XIII DELUSIONS ABOUT WORLD PEACE. THE PRICE OF PEACE
18. 18.XIV THE POSSIBILITY OF WAR BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AMERICA. SUCH A WAR IS BEING PREPARED NOW. WHAT ARE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE TO DO ABOUT IT?
19. 19.XV THE REMARKABLE VOGUE OF BROADCASTING: WILL IT CONTINUE?
20. 20.XVI THE SILLIEST FILM: WILL MACHINERY MAKE ROBOTS OF MEN?
21. 21.XVII IS LIFE BECOMING HAPPIER?
22. 22.XVIII EXPERIMENTING WITH MARRIAGE. LEGAL RECOGNITION OF CURRENT REALITIES
23. 23.XIX NEW LIGHT ON MENTAL LIFE: MR. J. W. DUNNE’S EXPERIMENTS WITH DREAMING
24. 24.XX POPULAR FEELING AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. ANTI-VIVISECTION
25. 25.XXI THE NEW AMERICAN PEOPLE: WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT?
26. 26.XXII OUTRAGES IN DEFENCE OF ORDER. THE PROPOSED MURDER OF TWO AMERICAN RADICALS
27. 27.XXIII SOME PLAIN WORDS TO AMERICANS. ARE THE AMERICANS A SACRED PEOPLE? IS INTERNATIONAL CRITICISM RESTRICTED TO THE EASTWARD POSITION?
28. 28.XXIV FUEL-GETTING IN THE MODERN WORLD
29. 29.XXV THE MAN OF SCIENCE AND THE EXPRESSIVE MAN. TO WHOM DOES THE FUTURE BELONG? SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT IVAN PAVLOFF AND GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
30. 30.XXVI THE FUTURE OF THE NOVEL. DIFFICULTIES OF THE MODERN NOVELIST
31. 31.XXVII IS A BELIEF IN A SPIRIT WORLD GROWING? WHY MANY SENSIBLE MEN CONTINUE TO DOUBT AND DISREGARD IT. WHAT IS IMMORTALITY?

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