Skip to main content
Modern Philosophers
All books

Book

Available now

The Open Conspiracy

H. G. Wells

The book lays out Wells’s vision for a transformative global movement aimed at unifying humanity through science, rational organization, and a reconceptualized sense of religion and duty.

"The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution" by H. G. Wells is a socio-political treatise. The book lays out Wells’s vision for a transformative global movement aimed at unifying humanity through science, rational organization, and a reconceptualized sense of religion and duty.

What you get

  • The book as EPUB, PDF, delivered to your library after payment.
  • Bought on its own: yours to keep.

Read a passage

Few people, if any, are always sustained by unselfish or religious motives, and few or none are altogether beyond their influence. The daily lives of the great majority of human beings are frankly irreligious; they seem to differ only in their scope, variety and intelligence from the lives of animals; they are determined by instinctive impulses, individual desires and personal ends; they pass from one satisfaction or disappointment to another; they are attracted and deflected by casual encounters; they forget more or less completely and they resume. Nevertheless, the conduct of most lives is restricted and defined by the prevalent conceptions of what is honourable and becoming, and right and wrong. Although the lives of the great run of people are neither moral essentially nor essentially2 religious, they respect current moral and religious forms and maxims, just as they conform to current usages and beaten tracks. It is the line of least resistance for them, and that suffices.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I Necessity of Religion to Human Life
  2. 02Chapter II Subordination of Self the Essence of Religion
  3. 03Chapter III Need for a Restatement of Religion
  4. 04Chapter IV Objective Expression of Modern Religion
  5. 05Chapter V the Frame of the Task Before Mankind: The World Commonweal
  6. 06Chapter VI Broad Characteristics of the World Commonweal
  7. 07Chapter VII No Stable Utopia Is Contemplated
  8. 08Chapter VIII the Open Conspiracy Must Be Heterogeneous
  9. 09Chapter IX Forces and Resistances in the Great Modern Communities Now Prevalent Which Will Be Antagonistic to the Open Conspiracy
  10. 10Chapter X the Open Conspiracy and the Resistances of the Less Industrialised Peoples
  11. 11Chapter XI Resistances and Antagonistic Forces in Ourselves
  12. 12Chapter XII the Open Conspiracy Must Begin as a Movement of Explanation and Propaganda
  13. 13Chapter XIII Early Constructive Work of the Open Conspiracy
  14. 14Chapter XIV Existing and Developing Movements with Which the Open Conspiracy May Hope to Coalesce
  15. 15Chapter XV the Creative Home, Social Group and School: The Present Waste of Youthful Seriousness
  16. 16Chapter XVI Progressive Development of the Activities of the Open Conspiracy Into a World Control and Commonweal: The Hazards of the Conflict
  17. 17Chapter XVII the World Community
  18. 18Note on the Margin of These Blue Prints

About this edition

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