The Future In America A Search After Realities

Author : H Wells
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ISBN 13 : 9781977673947
Total Pages : 112 pages
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Download or read book The Future in America written by H Wells and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future in America: A Search After Realities is a 1906 travel essay by H. G. Wells recounting his impressions from the first of half a dozen visits he would make to the United States. The book consists of fifteen chapters and a concluding "envoy".Wells describes the United States as "a great and energetic English-speaking population strewn across a continent so vast as to make it seem small and thin . . . caught by the upward sweep of that great increase of knowledge that is everywhere enlarging the power and scope of human effort, exhilarated by it, and active and hopeful beyond any population the world has ever seen" engaged in "a universal commercial competition that must, in the end, if it is not modified, divide them into two permanent classes of rich and poor."Much of the book is devoted to an admittedly superficial discussion of American social problems: labor, corruption (through Jane Addams Wells was able to visit Chicago slums and a corrupt alderman's saloon), immigration (Wells called for either "a gigantic and costly machinery organized to educate and civilize" immigrants, or restriction "to numbers assimilable under existing conditions"), "state-blindness" (by which Wells means the typical American's failure to perceive "that his business activities, his private employments, are constituents in a large collective process"), injustice, racial prejudice (he met with Booker T. Washington, rejected the viability of segregation, and praised the "heroic" resolve of black Americans), American universities, Boston's excessive attachment to the past, and the urgent need for democratizing political reform. The last chapter of the book is devoted to impressions of Theodore Roosevelt, whom he visited at the White House and whom Wells sees as representative not only of the United States but also as "a very symbol of the creative will in man," "the creative purpose, the good-will in men." The Future in America concludes with an "envoy" announcing that "in America, by sheer virtue of its size, its free traditions, and the habit of initiative in its people, the leadership of progress must ultimately rest."

Author : Herbert George Wells
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Total Pages : 306 pages
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Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440059100
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book The Future in America written by H. G. Wells and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Future in America: A Search After Realities The question "Are you a Polygamist?" "Are you an Anarchist?" 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : H. G. Wells
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ISBN 13 : 9781985026728
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book The Future in America written by H. G. Wells and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even those readers of Mr. Wells who are sworn enemies of his conclusions will readily make the handsome admission that 'The Future in America' is one of the most interesting books that has been written about us by a foreigner these many years; that it proceeds from an abounding goodwill; and that it is quite free from malice, presumption, or condescension. The author's transparent good nature makes it impossible to be angry at even his sharpest criticisms; and the vitality and freshness of his style have produced a work that is readable from cover to cover. It is a wholesome book, too, for our perusal, for it does not spare the ugly flaws in our civilization and brings us face to face with the giant band of problems that confront us....It clearly defines the problems that confront us, and in its broad, humane, and generous temper, there is an exhilaration that leaves a reader eager to have a hand in shaping the future of America after his heart's desire." -Putnam's Monthly "Americans who care deeply for their country and can look beyond the issues of the moment toward vistas that stretch on forever are likely to find occasion for much fruitful thought and healthy introspection in the latest work of that novelist of genius and modern prophet, H. G. Wells....At the outset, Mr. Wells declares that in this, as in all his work, he has been dominated by a sense of the prophetic. He is concerned not so much with the America that is as with the America that is to be." -Current Literature "The book is illuminating in the fullest sense, a criticism not only of America, but of all civilized society, and it is written in a style which is always attractive and rises now and then to uncommon beauty and power, for Mr. Wells is as much poet as sociologist. He sees his data not grayly set out on a laboratory table, but touched with the eternal mystery of human hopes and fears." -The London Spectator "Mr. Wells is worth listening to: unlike the customary scurrying Englishman who makes a book about the 'States,' he does not confine his observations to our dirty streets, our skyscrapers, Pullmans and hotels, nor even to American women. He is after more serious things - the industrial situation, the American idea as shown at Ellis Island, the spirit of our civilization." -The Saturday Evening Post "Stimulating and suggestive. It is not a record of travel or facts of philosophy, but it is a sane discussion of various striking features of American life and character." -The World's Work "The book is full of quotable sentences.... He is extremely acute and often witty in describing the different social atmospheres of our cities." -The Outlook CONTENTS I. The Prophetic Habit of Mind II. Material Progress III. New York IV. Growth Invincible V. The Economic Process VI. Some Aspects of American Wealth VII. Certain Workers VIII. Corruption IX. The Immigrant X. State-Blindness XI. Two Studies in Disappointment XII. The Tragedy of Color XIII. The Mind of a Modern State XIV. Culture XV. At Washington The Envoy

Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230215730
Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book The Future in America; a Search After Realities written by Herbert George Wells and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX THE IMMIGRANT My picture of America assumes now a The Flood certain definite form. I have tried to convey the effect of a great and energetic English-speaking population strewn across a continent so vast as to make it seem small and thin; I have tried to show this population caught by the upward sweep of that great increase in knowledge that is everywhere enlarging the power and scope of human effort, exhilarated by it, and active and hopeful beyond any population the world has ever seen, and I have tried to show how the members of this population struggle and differentiate among themselves in a universal commercial competition that must, in the end, if it is not modified, divide them into two permanent classes of rich and poor. I have ventured to hint at a certain emptiness in the resulting wealthy, .and to note some of the uglinesses and miseries inseparable from this competition. I have tried to give my impressions of the vague, yet widely diffused, will in the nation to resist this differentia tion, and of a dim, large movement of thought towards a change of national method. I have glanced at the debasement of politics that bars any immediate hope of such reconstruction. And now it is time to introduce a new element of obstruction and difficulty into this complicating problem--the immigrants. Into the lower levels of the American community there pours perpetually a vast torrent of strangers, speaking alien tongues, inspired by alien traditions, for the most part illiterate peasants and workingpeople. They come in at the bottom: that must be insisted upon. An enormous and ever-increasing proportion of the laboring classes, of all the lower class in America, is of recent European origin, is either of foreign birth or foreign...

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8074848957
Total Pages : 259 pages
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Download or read book The Future in America - A Search After Realities (The original unabridged and illustrated edition) written by H. G. Wells and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Future in America - A Search After Realities (The original unabridged and illustrated edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Future in America -A Search After Realities is a 1906 travel essay by H. G. Wells recounting his impressions from the first of half a dozen visits he would make to the United States. Table of contents:Chapter I. The Prophetic Habit Of MindChapter II. Material ProgressChapter III. New YorkChapter IV. Growth InvincibleChapter V. The Economic ProcessChapter VI. Some Aspects Of American WealthChapter VII. Certain WorkersChapter VIII. CorruptionChapter IX. The ImmigrantChapter X. State-BlindnessChapter XI. Two Studies In DisappointmentChapter XII. The Tragedy Of ColorChapter XIII. The Mind Of A Modern StateChapter XIV. CultureChapter XV. At WashingtonThe EnvoyHerbert George "H. G." Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells was now considered to be one of the world's most important political thinkers and during the 1920s and 30s he was in great demand as a contributor to newspapers and journals.

Author : Herbert George Wells
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Total Pages : 118 pages
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Download or read book The Future in America written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The questions seem impertinent. They are part of a long paper of interrogations I mustanswer satisfactorily if I am to be regarded as a desirable alien to enter the United States ofAmerica. I want very much to pass that great statue of Liberty illuminating the World (froma central position in New York Harbor), in order to see things in its light, to talk to certainpeople, to appreciate certain atmospheres, and so I resist the provocation to answerimpertinently. I do not even volunteer that I do not smoke and am a total abstainer; onwhich points it would seem the States as a whole still keep an open mind. I am full ofcuriosity about America, I am possessed by a problem I feel I cannot adequately discusseven with myself except over there, and I must go even at the price of coming to a decisionupon the theoretically open questions these two inquiries raise

Author : H G Wells
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Total Pages : 118 pages
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Download or read book The Future in America written by H G Wells and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : H G Wells
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Total Pages : 118 pages
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Download or read book The Future in America written by H G Wells and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : H Wells
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ISBN 13 : 9781986695275
Total Pages : 124 pages
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Download or read book The Future in America written by H Wells and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future in America: A Search After Realities is a 1906 travel essay by H. G. Wells recounting his impressions from the first of half a dozen visits he would make to the United States. The book consists of fifteen chapters and a concluding "envoy".Wells describes the United States as "a great and energetic English-speaking population strewn across a continent so vast as to make it seem small and thin . . . caught by the upward sweep of that great increase of knowledge that is everywhere enlarging the power and scope of human effort, exhilarated by it, and active and hopeful beyond any population the world has ever seen" engaged in "a universal commercial competition that must, in the end, if it is not modified, divide them into two permanent classes of rich and poor."