What Are We to Do with Our Lives?

H. G. Wells

• Publisher: Dabney Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781406775648
• eBook ISBN: 9781473375864
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Historical Theory & Criticism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This vintage book contains H. G. Wells's "The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution" (first published in 1928). Wells describes the book as 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.' The text suggests that, thanks to scientific advancement, a world 'politically, socially and economically unified' is being established by educated and influential people which could be the foundation of 'a world revolution aiming at universal peace.' This fascinating and thought-provoking treatise will appeal to those with an interest in utopian literature, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Wells's work. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a seminal English writer whose notable works include "The War of the Worlds" (1897) and "The Time Machine" (1895). Many antiquarian texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Table of contents

• What are we to do with our lives?
• H. G. Wells
• I. — THE PRESENT CRISIS IN HUMAN AFFAIRS
• II. — THE IDEA OF THE OPEN CONSPIRACY
• III. — WE HAVE TO CLEAR AND CLEAN UP OUR MINDS
• IV. — THE REVOLUTION IN EDUCATION
• V. — RELIGION IN THE NEW WORLD
• VI. — MODERN RELIGION IS OBJECTIVE
• VII. — WHAT MANKIND HAS TO DO
• VIII. — BROAD CHARACTERISTICS OF A SCIENTIFIC WORLD COMMONWEAL
• IX. — NO STABLE UTOPIA IS NOW CONCEIVABLE
• X. — THE OPEN CONSPIRACY IS NOT TO BETHOUGHT OF AS A SINGLE ORGANIZATION; IT ISA CONCEPTION OF LIFE OUT OF WHICH EFFORTS,ORGANIZATIONS, AND NEW ORIENTATIONS WILL ARISE
• XI. — FORCES AND RESISTANCES IN THE GREAT MODERNCOMMUNITIES NOW PREVALENT, WHICH ARE ANTAGONISTICTO THE OPEN CONSPIRACY. THE WAR WITH TRADITION
• XII. — THE RESISTANCES OF THE LESS INDUSTRIALIZED PEOPLES TO THE DRIVE OF THE OPEN CONSPIRACY
• XIII. — RESISTANCES AND ANTAGONISTIC FORCES IN OUR CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS SELVES
• XIV. — THE OPEN CONSPIRACY BEGINS AS A MOVEMENT OF DISCUSSION, EXPLANATION, AND PROPAGANDA
• XV. — EARLY CONSTRUCTIVE WORK OF THE OPEN CONSPIRACY
• XVI. — EXISTING AND DEVELOPING MOVEMENTS WHICH ARE CONTRIBUTORY TO THE OPEN CONSPIRACY AND WHICH MUST DEVELOP A COMMON CONSCIOUSNESS. THE PARABLE OF PROVINDER ISLAND
• XVII. — THE CREATIVE HOME, SOCIAL GROUP, AND SCHOOL: THE PRESENT WASTE OF IDEALISTIC WILL
• XVIII. — PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE OPEN CONSPIRACY INTO A WORLD CONTROL AND COMMONWEAL: THE HAZARDS OF THE ATTEMPT
• XIX. — HUMAN LIFE IN THE COMING WORLD COMMUNITY