What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War

by H. G. Wells

What is Coming?

A Forecast of Things after the War

By H.G. WELLS

1916

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CONTENTS

[I. FORECASTING THE FUTURE]
[II. THE END OF THE WAR]
[III. NATIONS IN LIQUIDATION]
[IV. BRAINTREE, BOCKING, AND THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD]
[V. HOW FAR WILL EUROPE GO TOWARD SOCIALISM?]
[VI. LAWYER AND PRESS]
[VII. THE NEW EDUCATION]
[VIII. WHAT THE WAR IS DOING FOR WOMEN]
[IX. THE NEW MAP OF EUROPE]
[X. THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, BRITAIN, AND RUSSIA]
[XI. "THE WHITE MAN'S BURTHEN"]
[XII. THE OUTLOOK FOR THE GERMANS]

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I. FORECASTING THE FUTURE

Prophecy may vary between being an intellectual amusement and a serious occupation; serious not only in its intentions, but in its consequences. For it is the lot of prophets who frighten or disappoint to be stoned. But for some of us moderns, who have been touched with the spirit of science, prophesying is almost a habit of mind.