A Year of Prophesying
1924
In the shattered aftermath of the Great War, H. G. Wells turned his formidable intellect to the question of what comes next. This collection of fifty-five newspaper columns, written between 1923 and 1924, captures one of the twentieth century's most provocative minds wrestling with the fragile promise of peace. Wells had just revolutionized how people understood history with The Outline of History, and now readers hungrily turned to him for commentary on the present crisis. What he offered was not comfort but challenge: a fierce critique of the League of Nations as a hollow compromise that perpetuate the old order of national sovereignty. He called instead for a broader Confederation of Mankind, arguing that genuine peace required transcending the very structures that had produced the catastrophe of the war. These pieces vibrate with intellectual urgency, written by a man who saw himself as a prophet of what might be if humanity could only stretch its imagination beyond borders.
