The Shape of Things to Come
1933
H.G. Wells
To
José Ortega y Gasset
Explorador
Contents
Introduction - The Dream Book of Dr. Philip Raven
Book the First - Today and Tomorrow: the Age of Frustration Dawns
A Chronological Note
How the Idea and Hope of the Modern World State First Appeared
The Accumulating Disproportions of the Old Order
Early Attempts to Understand and Deal with These Disproportions; The Criticisms of Karl Marx and Henry George
The Way in Which Competition and Monetary Inefficiency Strained the Old Order
The Paradox of Over-Production and Its Relation to War
The Great War of 1914-1918
The Impulse to Abolish War; The Episode of the Ford Peace Ship
The Direct Action of the Armament Industries in Maintaining War Stresses
Versailles, Seed Bed of Disasters
The Impulse to Abolish War: Why the League of Nations Failed to Pacify the World
The Breakdown of “Finance” and Social Morale after Versailles
1933: “Progress” Comes to a Halt
Book the Second - The Days After Tomorrow: the Age of Frustration
The London Conference: the Crowning Failure of the Old Governments; The Spread of Dictatorships and Fascisms
The Sloughing of the Old Educational Tradition
Disintegration and Crystallization in the Social Magma. The Gangster and Militant Political Organizations
Changes in War Practice after the World War
The Fading Vision of a World Pax: Japan Reverts to Warfare
The Western Grip on Asia Relaxes
The Modern State and Germany
A Note on Hate and Cruelty
The Last War Cyclone, 1940-50
The Raid of the Germs
Europe in 1960
America in Liquidation
Book the Third - The World Renascence: the Birth of the Modern State
The Plan of the Modern State is Worked Out
Thought and Action: the New Model of Revolution
The Technical Revolutionary
Prophets, Pioneers, Fanatics and Murdered Men
The First Conference at Basra: 1965
The Growth of Resistance to the Sea and Air Ways Control
Intellectual Antagonism to the Modern State
The Second Conference at Basra: 1978
“Three Courses of Action”
The Life-Time Plan
The Real Struggle for Government Begins
Book the Fourth - The Modern State Militant
Gap in the Text
Melodramatic Interlude
Futile Insurrection
The Schooling of Mankind
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(Editor’s Note)
The Text Resumes: The Tyranny of the Second Council
Æsthetic Frustration: The Note Books of Ariston Theotocopulos
The Declaration of Mégève
Book the Fifth - The Modern State in Control of Life
Monday Morning in the Creation of a New World
Keying Up the Planet
Geogonic Planning
Changes in the Control of Behaviour
Organization of Plenty
The Average Man Grows Older and Wiser
Language and Mental Growth
Sublimation of Interest
A New Phase in the History of Life
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