The Fate of Man

This is the annotated edition including the rare biographical essay by Edwin E. Slosson called "H. G. Wells - A Major Prophet Of His Time". Of all the books on democracy and freedom, H. G. Wells's latest is the comprehensive and the most powerful. It ranges freely over the war-torn planet, wholly unpedantic and written with true eloquence - witness the chapter on the British Empire. A mass of facts, derived from much reading, is digested, organized and interpreted to support a single theme, which is that unless the world reshapes its "mental superstructure, its knowledge, idea and habit system", mankind is doomed to extinction as helplessly as the pterodactyl and as absurdely as the dodo.