A Modern UtopiaH. G. Wells' A Modern Utopia is a fusion of fiction and philosophy. In it Wells' explores his ideas for social change, the creation of a world state and of what would be needed to facilitate increases in overall human happiness. The people of this utopia have to plan for "a flexible common compromise, in which a perpetually novel succession of individualities may converge most effectually upon a comprehensive onward development." This is Wells' distinction from past conceptions of utopia, that its people aim to be Utopian and that they are essentially the same people that would exist in an ordinary society. |
Contents
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Chapter the Third Utopian Economics | 82 |
Chapter the Fourth The Voice of Nature | 127 |
Chapter the Fifth Failure in a Modern Utopia | 153 |
Chapter the Sixth Women in a Modern Utopia | 197 |
Chapter the Seventh A Few Utopian Impressions | 237 |
Chapter the Eighth My Utopian Self | 273 |
Chapter the Ninth The Samurai | 286 |
Chapter the Tenth Race in Utopia | 352 |
Chapter the Eleventh The Bubble Bursts | 388 |
Appendix Scepticism of the Instrument | 415 |
Endnotes | 440 |
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