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Mankind in the Making

H. G. Wells

Wells examines how children develop into citizens of the modern state, proposing a controversial doctrine called "New Republicanism" that judges all things by their effect on human evolution.

"Mankind in the Making" by H. G. Wells is a collection of essays. Wells examines how children develop into citizens of the modern state, proposing a controversial doctrine called "New Republicanism" that judges all things by their effect on human evolution.

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With a skin of infinite delicacy that life will harden very speedily, with a discomforted writhing little body, with a weak and wailing outcry that stirs the heart, the creature comes protesting into the world, and unless death win a victory, we and chance and the forces of life in it, make out of that soft helplessness a man. Certain things there are inevitable in that man and unalterable, stamped upon his being long before the moment of his birth, the inherited things, the inherent things, his final and fundamental self. This is his “heredity,” his incurable reality, the thing that out of all his being, stands the test of survival and passes on to his children. Certain things he must be, certain things he may be, and certain things are for ever beyond his scope. That much his parentage defines for him, that is the natural man.

Contents

  1. 01Mankind in the Making
  2. 02I. The New Republic
  3. 03II. The Problem of the Birth Supply
  4. 04III. Certain Wholesale Aspects of Man-Making
  5. 05§ 1
  6. 06§ 2
  7. 07“Deaths of Children from Burning.
  8. 08“To Parents and Guardians.
  9. 09“E. R. C. Bradford,
  10. 10IV. The Beginnings of the Mind and Language
  11. 11§ 1
  12. 12§ 2
  13. 13§ 3
  14. 14V. The Man-Making Forces of the Modern State
  15. 15VI. Schooling
  16. 16VII. Political and Social Influences
  17. 17VIII. The Cultivation of the Imagination
  18. 18§ 1
  19. 19§ 2
  20. 20IX. The Organization of the Higher Education
  21. 21X. Thought in the Modern State
  22. 22XI. The Man’s Own Share
  23. 23The End
  24. 24Appendix
  25. 25A Paper on Administrative Areas Read Before the Fabian Society

About this edition

Author
H. G. Wells
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Advanced: for close, demanding reading
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
170 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers