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What Is Coming? a Forecast of Things After the War

H. G. Wells

The author presents himself as a prophet of sorts, using his reputable background in science and sociology to make educated guesses about the future trajectory of humanity.

"What is Coming? The author presents himself as a prophet of sorts, using his reputable background in science and sociology to make educated guesses about the future trajectory of humanity.

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Prophecy may vary between being an intellectual amusement and a serious occupation; serious not only in its intentions, but in its consequences. For it is the lot of prophets who frighten or disappoint to be stoned. But for some of us moderns, who have been touched with the spirit of science, prophesying is almost a habit of mind.

Science is very largely analysis aimed at forecasting. The test of any scientific law is our verification of its anticipations. The scientific training develops the idea that whatever is going to happen is really here now--if only one could see it. And when one is taken by surprise the tendency is not to say with the untrained man, "Now, who'd ha' thought it?" but "Now, what was it we overlooked?"

Contents

  1. 01I. Forecasting the Future
  2. 02II. The End of the War
  3. 03III. Nations in Liquidation
  4. 04IV. Braintree, Bocking, and the Future of the World
  5. 05V. How Far Will Europe Go Toward Socialism?
  6. 06VI. Lawyer and Press
  7. 07VII. The New Education
  8. 08VIII. What the War Is Doing for Women
  9. 09Section 1
  10. 10IX. The New Map of Europe
  11. 11Section 1
  12. 12Section 2
  13. 13X. The United States, France, Britain, and Russia
  14. 14Section 1
  15. 15Section 2
  16. 16XI. "The White Man's Burthen"
  17. 17XII. The Outlook for the Germans
  18. 18Section 1
  19. 19Section 2
  20. 20Section 3

About this edition

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