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The Future in America: A Search After Realities

H. G. Wells

Wells examines a nation caught between enormous potential and deep social problems.

"The Future in America: A Search After Realities" by H. G. Wells is a travel essay. Wells examines a nation caught between enormous potential and deep social problems.

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The questions seem impertinent. They are part of a long paper of interrogations I must answer satisfactorily if I am to be regarded as a desirable alien to enter the United States of America. I want very much to pass that great statue of Liberty illuminating the World (from a central position in New York Harbor), in order to see things in its light, to talk to certain people, to appreciate certain atmospheres, and so I resist the provocation to answer impertinently. I do not even volunteer that I do not smoke and am a total abstainer; on which points it would seem the States as a whole still keep an open mind. I am full of curiosity about America, I am possessed by a problem I feel I cannot adequately discuss even with myself except over there, and I must go even at the price of coming to a decision upon the theoretically open questions these two inquiries raise.

Contents

  1. 01The Prophetic Habit of Mind
  2. 02Material Progress
  3. 03New York
  4. 04Entrance to Brooklyn Bridge
  5. 05Growth Invincible
  6. 06State Street, Chicago
  7. 07The Economic Process
  8. 08Western Farmers Still Own Their Farms
  9. 09Some Aspects of American Wealth
  10. 10Plump and Pretty Pupils of Extravagance
  11. 11Certain Workers
  12. 12New York's Crowded, Littered East Side
  13. 13Breaker Boys at a Pennsylvania Colliery
  14. 14Corruption
  15. 15Interior of a New York Office Building
  16. 16The Immigrant
  17. 17Where Immigrant Children Are Americanized
  18. 18State-Blindness
  19. 19Two Studies in Disappointment
  20. 20The Tragedy of Color
  21. 21The Mind of a Modern State
  22. 22Harvard Hall and the Johnson Gate, Cambridge
  23. 23A Bit of Princeton University
  24. 24Culture
  25. 25At Washington
  26. 26In the Congressional Library
  27. 27The Envoy

About this edition

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