The Future In America A Search After Realities The Original Unabridged And Illustrated Edition

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 : H. G. Wells
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Total Pages : 174 pages
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Download or read book The Future in America: A Search After Realities written by H. G. Wells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Future in America: A Search After Realities" by H. G. Wells. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

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 : 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
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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 : Herbert George Wells
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781377382210
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book The Future in America written by Herbert George Wells and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Herbert George Wells
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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 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."

Author : H. G. Wells
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Total Pages : 117 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 2020-04-02 with total page 117 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. My problem I know will seem ridiculous and monstrous when I give it in all its stark disproportions--attacked by me with my equipment it will call up an image of an elephant assailed by an ant who has not even mastered Jiu-jitsu--but at any rate I've come to it in a natural sort of way and it is one I must, for my own peace of mind, make some kind of attempt upon, even if at last it means no more than the ant crawling in an exploratory way hither and thither over that vast unconscious carcass and finally getting down and going away. That may be rather good for the ant, and the experience may be of interest to other ants, however infinitesimal from the point of view of the elephant, the final value of his investigation may be. And this tremendous problem in my case and now in this--simply; What is going to happen to the United States of America in the next thirty years or so? I do not know if the reader has ever happened upon any books or writings of mine before, but if, what is highly probable, he has not, he may be curious to know how it is that any human being should be running about in so colossally an interrogative state of mind. (For even the present inquiry is by no means my maximum limit). And the explanation is to be found a little in a mental idiosyncrasy perhaps, but much more in the development of a special way of thinking, of a habit of mind.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519606518
Total Pages : 394 pages
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Download or read book The Future in America written by H. G. Wells and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What the visiting foreigner takes away from America -will always hear a fixed proportion to what he brings. "I felt instinctively," says Mr. Wells, ' "that Boston could never possibly understand the light traveling of a philosophical carpet-beggar." He makes no secret, indeed, of his conviction that the Bostonians do not know what to forget. We find him impatient of pilgrimages to Mount Vernon and Concord and other shrines, excusing himself on the ground that the English are such a young people. This is in sharp contrast, of course, to the mood of Mr. Bryce, but it may be doubted whether any book written about us since the appearance of the "American Commonwealth" has been quite so well worthwhile. Mr. Bryce remembered everything; Mr. Wells contrives to forget everything save his consuming interest in the future of mankind upon this planet, and in America's probable part in the shaping of that future. Divested to a wonderful degree of national prejudice, of literary preoccupation, of leisure even (for he was here only seven weeks), our visitor brought with him a very keen pair of eyes and the gift, moreover, of picturesque and effective presentation. His book is a bold, strongly drawn cartoon, in which the lines, though not always right perhaps, are at least consistent and inspiring. To the European eye, our continent is still unpopulated, despite its urban congestion. Our people are roughly prosperous, not yet consciously defeated in the economic struggle, and childishly delighted with growth -not with mere having, as some observers think, but with growing bigger and bigger. A sight in Alderman Kenna's saloon of the base and coarse faces of those who have no ideals and yet have votes has brought vividly home to our author the alternative with us for private ownership. "If public services are to be taken out of the hands of such associations of financiers as the Standard Oil group they have to be put in the hands of politicians resting at last upon this sort of basis. Therein resides the impossibility of socialism in America-as the case for socialism is put at present." Wise socialist to see it! Is the future in America, as Mr. Wells forecasts it, hopeful or the reverse? He sees dangers in our plutocracy and in our immigration. We might stagnate like China or decay like Rome. "An illiterate, shortsighted America would be America doomed." But we are not illiterate. Our ten cent magazines are so far superior to those sold in England for six-pence that he has hopes of us. "It is these millions of readers who make the American problem, and the problem of Europe and the world today, unique and incalculable, who provide a cohesive and reasonable and pacifying medium the Old World did not know. -"The Charity Organization Review," Vol. 18 [1907]