Literature/1927/Wells

Contents

 * 1)  Man Becomes a Different Animal.  Delusions about Human Fixity.  (January 9, 1927)
 * 2)  What is Happening in China?  Does it Forshadow a New Government in the World?  (January 23, 1927)
 * 3)  What is Fascism?  Whither is it taking Italy?  (February 9, 1927)
 * 4)  Doubts of Democracy.  New Experiments in Government.  (March 20, 1927)
 * 5)  Democracy under Revision: a Lecture delivered at Sorbonne on March 15, 1927.
 * 6)  The Absurdity of British Politics.  A Shadow on the Whole World.  What has to be Done about it?  (August 7, 1927)
 * 7)  Baldwinism a Danger to the World.  Wanted, a Coalition Government.  The Deadlock and the Way out.  (November 7, 1927)
 * 8)  Communism and Witchcraft.  (August 21, 1927)
 * 9)  The Future of Labour.  The Struggle between Capital and Labour.  Controversial Hallucinations.  (September 4, 1927)
 * 10)  What is the British Empire worth to Mankind?  Meditations of an Empire Citizen.  (September 18, 1927)
 * 11)  The Present uselessness and Danger of Aeroplanes.  A Problem in Organization.  (February 20, 1927)
 * 12)  Changes in the Art of War.  Are Armies needed any longer?  The Twilight of the Guards.  (March 6, 1927)
 * 13)  Delusions about World Peace.  The Price of Peace.  (June 12, 1927)
 * 14)  The Possibility of War between Britain and America.  Such a war is being prepared now.  What are intelligent people to do about it?  (October 2, 1927)
 * 15)  The Remarkable Vogue of Broadcasting: will it continue?  (April 3, 1927)
 * 16)  The Silliest Film.  Will Machinery make Robots of Men?  (April 17, 1927)
 * 17)  Is Life becoming Happier?  (May 1, 1927)
 * 18)  Experimenting with Marriage.  Legal Recognition of Current Realities.  (June 26. 1927)
 * 19)  New Light on Mental Life:  Mr. J.W. Dunne’s Experiments with Dreaming.  (July 10, 1927)
 * 20)  Popular Feeling and the Advancement of Science.  Anti-vivisection.  (July 24, 1927)
 * 21)  The New American People: what is wrong with it?  (May 15, 1927)
 * 22)  Outrages in Defense of Order.  The Proposed Murder of two American Socialists.  (May 29, 1927)
 * 23)  Some Plain Words to Americans.  Are the Americans a Sacred People?  Is International Criticism restricted to the Eastward Position?  (October 16, 1927)
 * 24)  Fuel Getting in the Modern World.  (October 30, 1927)
 * 25)  The Man of Science and the Expressive Man.  To Whom does the Future Belong?  Some Thoughts about Ivan Pavloff and George Bernard Shaw.  (November 13, 1927)
 * 26)  The Future of the Novel.  Difficulties of the Modern Novelist.  (11 December 1927)
 * 27)  Is a Belief in the Spirit World growing?  Why many Sensible Men continue to doubt and disregard it.  What is immortality?  (December 25, 1927)

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 * World government
 * The World State
 * New World Order (conspiracy theory)


 * Future studies
 * World Brain
 * Utopia


 * The Way the World is Going
 * The book is similar to Wells' earlier 1925 work A Year of Prophesying. Unlike this earlier work, The Way the World is Going is marked by both a dark disillusionment and decaying optimism over the state of the world at the time.

Chronology

 * A Year of Prophesying
 * A Year of Prophesying
 * A Year of Prophesying
 * A Year of Prophesying
 * A Year of Prophesying
 * A Year of Prophesying
 * A Year of Prophesying