In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace
1918
In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace
1918
In 1918, as the First World War grinds toward its bloody end, H.G. Wells turns his celebrated predictive imagination from the future of technology to the future of civilization itself. This short, passionate treatise lays out Wells's vision for a League of Nations, written while the shells still fall and the old order crumbles. He argues that the war represents a 'War of Ideas' - a fundamental reckoning with imperialism, autocracy, and the madness of great powers perpetually arming themselves toward mutual destruction. Wells calls for democratic representation, anti-colonial sentiment, and international cooperation that transcends mere diplomacy. Some predictions ring eerily true: the decline of permanent marriage, the rise of aerial warfare, vehicles replacing horses. Others crash spectacularly: submarines that suffocate their crews, a world government arriving within a generation. What remains vital is not Wells's accuracy but his desperate hope - a snapshot of what educated people believed possible as the old world burned.
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“It is proposed in this book to present in as orderly an arrangement as the necessarily diffused nature of the subject admits,””
— H. G. Wells
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