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Mankind in the Making
H. G. Wells
 
Table of Contents
Mankind in the Making............................................................................................................................................1
H. G. Wells.....................................................................................................................................................1PREFACE......................................................................................................................................................1I. THE NEW REPUBLIC..............................................................................................................................2II. THE PROBLEM OF THE BIRTH SUPPLY..........................................................................................12III. CERTAINWHOLESALE ASPECTS OF MAN−MAKING................................................................24Sec. 1............................................................................................................................................................24Sec. 2............................................................................................................................................................28Endnote 1.....................................................................................................................................................35IV. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MIND AND LANGUAGE...................................................................35Sec. 1............................................................................................................................................................35Sec. 2............................................................................................................................................................37Sec. 3............................................................................................................................................................46V. THE MAN−MAKING FORCES OF THE MODERN STATE.............................................................48VI. SCHOOLING........................................................................................................................................60VII. POLITICAL ANDSOCIAL INFLUENCES.......................................................................................71VIII. THE CULTIVATION OF THE IMAGINATION..............................................................................85Sec. I.............................................................................................................................................................85Sec. II...........................................................................................................................................................89IX. THE ORGANIZATIONOF THE HIGHER EDUCATION.................................................................92X. THOUGHT IN THE MODERN STATE..............................................................................................103XI. THE MAN'S OWN SHARE................................................................................................................113APPENDIX................................................................................................................................................115
Mankind in the Makingi
 
Mankind in the Making
H. G. Wells
This page copyright © 2002 Blackmask Online.http://www.blackmask.comPREFACE
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I. THE NEW REPUBLIC
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II. THE PROBLEM OF THE BIRTH SUPPLY
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III. CERTAINWHOLESALE ASPECTS OF MAN−MAKING
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Sec. 1
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Sec. 2.
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Endnote 1
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IV. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MIND AND LANGUAGE
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Sec. 1
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Sec. 2
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Sec. 3
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V. THE MAN−MAKING FORCES OF THE MODERN STATE
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VI. SCHOOLING
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VII. POLITICAL ANDSOCIAL INFLUENCES
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VIII. THE CULTIVATION OF THE IMAGINATION
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Sec. I
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Sec. II
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IX. THE ORGANIZATIONOF THE HIGHER EDUCATION
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X. THOUGHT IN THE MODERN STATE
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XI. THE MAN'S OWN SHARE
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APPENDIX
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PREFACE
It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written inrelation to a previous work,
Anticipations
, [Footnote: Published by Harper Bros.] and together with that and asmall pamphlet, The Discovery of the Future,[Footnote: Nature, vol. lxv. (1901−2), p. 326, and reprinted inthe Smithsonian Report for 1902] presents a general theory of social development and of social and politicalconduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting−point,viewing the whole social and political world as aspects of one universal evolving scheme, and placing all socialand political activities in a defined relation to that; and to this general method and trend it is that the attention of the reader is especially directed. The two books and the pamphlet together are to be regarded as an essay inpresentation. It is a work that the writer admits he has undertaken primarily for his own mental comfort. He isremarkably not qualified to assume an authoritative tone in these matters, and he is acutely aware of the manydefects in detailed knowledge, in temper, and in training these papers collectively display. He is aware that at suchpoints, for example, as the reference to authorities in the chapter on the biological problem, and to books in theeducational chapter, the lacunar quality of his reading and knowledge is only too evident; to fill in and complete
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