Exact facsimile of 1928 Edition. The book is, in Wells's words, a scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its present dangers, uncertainties and miseries. It proposes that largely as the result of scientific progress, a common vision of a world politically, socially and economically unified is emerging among educated and influential people, and that this can be the basis of a world revolution aiming at universal peace, welfare and happy activity that can result in the establishment of a world commonweal. This is to be achieved by drawing together a proportion of all or nearly all the functional classes in contemporary communities in order to weave the beginnings of a world community out of their selection. This will ultimately be a world religion. Still topical in light of the conflicts resulting from efforts to establish the European Community and the New Global Order.
