03274nam 22004933 450 991016331140332120230220084621.097817854355221785435523(CKB)3710000001046606(MiAaPQ)EBC7197402(Au-PeEL)EBL7197402(BIP)059612543(OCoLC)1370498003(Perlego)1070084(Perlego)2918465(EXLCZ)99371000000104660620230220d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNew Worlds For Old “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”1st ed.London :Copyright Group,2016.©2016.1 online resource (133 pages)9780599912786 0599912782 9783849641634 3849641635 This is the annotated edition including the rare biographical essay by Edwin E. Slosson called "H. G. Wells - A Major Prophet Of His Time". This is the twentieth book from the fertile pen of a writer equally entertaining and ingenious in the short story, the romance, the novel and the sociological essay. He is an Englishman with a Gallic literary style, is well acquainted with America and though a champion of good-will, is a joyous and irresponsible critic of all things human.The underlying purpose of this book, perhaps more serious than that in any of the other nineteen he has written, is to present and defend the creed of socialism in a manner to convince and convert the public. The author begins with the assertion of his belief in the betterment of things and in the growth of good-will, yet he finds much misery and many evils calling for change. The fundamental idea of socialism is to introduce constructive design into social action. First, the blundering and unsuccessful rearing of children must be remedied by taking much of the task into the hands of the state; and secondly the mischievous exaggeration of private property must be reduced.. These reforms can be brought about by "the spirit of service" which is to replace the spirit of gain. Objections are then taken up in detail, the author arguing that the best in home life need not be destroyed, that many kinds of private property would best be retained, and that efficiency and progress would not be arrested. That socialism is not a fixed program but a developing doctrine he seeks to show by a glance at the earlier utopian ideas, by a sarcastic and dissenting critique of the revolutionary socialism of Marx, and by a sketch of the older Fabian (which he calls administrative) socialism, and by arguments on constructive socialism, mainly emphasizing the need of education and spiritual change as a condition for the socialist state. SocialismSocialism.335Wells H.G184654MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910163311403321New Worlds For Old3009914UNINA