Chapter Eight : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], CHAPTER EIGHT MY UTOPIAN SELF SECTION 1 It falls to few of us to interview our better selves. My Utopian self is, of course, my better self--according to my best endeavours--and I must confess myself fully alive to the difficulties of the situation. When...
Chapter Five : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], CHAPTER FIVE FAILURE IN A MODERN UTOPIA SECTION 1 The old Utopias--save for the breeding schemes of Plato and Campanella--ignored that reproductive competition among individualities which is the substance of life, and dealt essentially with its...
Chapter Six : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], CHAPTER SIX WOMEN IN A MODERN UTOPIA SECTION 1 But though I have come to a point where the problem of a Utopia has resolved itself very simply into the problem of government and direction, I find I have not brought the botanist with me. Frankly he cannot...
Chapter Seven : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], CHAPTER SEVEN A FEW UTOPIAN IMPRESSIONS SECTION 1 But now we are in a better position to describe the houses and ways of the Utopian townships about the Lake of Lucerne, and to glance a little more nearly at the people who pass. You figure us as curiously...
Chapter Three : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], CHAPTER THREE UTOPIAN ECONOMICS SECTION 1 These modern Utopians with the universally diffused good manners, the universal education, the fine freedoms we shall ascribe to them, their world unity, world language, world-wide travellings, world-wide freedom...
Chapter One : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], CHAPTER ONE TOPOGRAPHICAL SECTION 1 The Utopia of a modern dreamer must needs differ in one fundamental aspect from the Nowheres and Utopias men planned before Darwin quickened the thought of the world. Those were all perfect and static States, a balance...
Chapter Nine : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], CHAPTER NINE THE SAMURAI SECTION 1 Neither my Utopian double nor I love emotion sufficiently to cultivate it, and my feelings are in a state of seemly subordination when we meet again. He is now in possession of some clear, general ideas about my own...
A Note To The Reader : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], A NOTE TO THE READER This book is in all probability the last of a series of writings, of which--disregarding certain earlier disconnected essays--my "Anticipations" was the beginning. Originally I intended "Anticipations" to be my sole digression from my...
Chapter Ten : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], CHAPTER TEN RACE IN UTOPIA SECTION 1 Above the sphere of the elemental cravings and necessities, the soul of man is in a perpetual vacillation between two conflicting impulses: the desire to assert his individual differences, the desire for distincti...
Chapter Four : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], CHAPTER FOUR THE VOICE OF NATURE SECTION 1 Presently we recognise the fellow of the earthly Devil's Bridge, still intact as a footway, spanning the gorge, and old memories turn us off the road down the steep ruin of an ancient mule track towards it. It is...
Title Page : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], A MODERN UTOPIA BY H. G. WELLS Odhams Press Limited, London, W.C.2. [1908] Formatted , June 2007. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published prior to January 1st, 1923. These files may be used for any non-commercial...
Chapter Two : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], CHAPTER TWO CONCERNING FREEDOMS SECTION 1 Now what sort of question would first occur to two men descending upon the planet of a Modern Utopia? Probably grave solicitude about their personal freedom. Towards the Stranger, as I have already remarked...
Chapter Eleven : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], CHAPTER ELEVEN THE BUBBLE BURSTS SECTION 1 As I walk back along the river terrace to the hotel where the botanist awaits me, and observe the Utopians I encounter, I have no thought that my tenure of Utopia becomes every moment more precarious. There flo...
The Owner Of The Voice : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], THE OWNER OF THE VOICE There are works, and this is one of them, that are best begun with a portrait of the author. And here, indeed, because of a very natural misunderstanding this is the only course to take. Throughout these papers sounds a note...
Appendix : * "A Modern Utopia", by H.G. Wells [1908], APPENDIX SCEPTICISM OF THE INSTRUMENT A Portion of a Paper read to the Oxford Philosophical Society, November 8, 1903, and reprinted, with some Revision, from the Version given in "Mind", vol. xiii. (N.S.), No. 51. (See also Chapter One, Section 6...
