Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr. Industrial republic: a study of the America ten years hence. **$1.20. Doubleday.
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It is of America of ten years hence that Mr. Sinclair writes “not as a dreamer or as a child, but as a scientist and a prophet.” His theory of industrial suicide followed by resurrection has grown out of a careful study of the sociological problems of the day. He predicts that the industrial crisis will occur in 1912, following the presidential election of that year, that after that will be established an industrial republic with Utopian rule.
“It must be admitted that there is a great deal of prophecy, but little science in this latest attempt to define socialism, while the reader will be more interested in those portions of the book which deal with the present and not the future.”
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“In many respects his work is comparable with Mr. H. G. Wells’s ‘A modern Utopia.’ More careless and less methodical with his data than is Mr. Wells, his analysis of social evils is shrewder and clearer. His faults are haste and carelessness, an over-indulgence in his own intellectual caprices, a too unfaltering trust in the infallibility of his own judgment.”
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“Some socialists are more emotional than others, and Mr. Sinclair is one of the more. He writes with great vigor and spirit, and makes his story very interesting. His vision is neither accurate, nor deep, nor broad, and he must be read with an elastic discount; he rakes the worst together, and makes the most of it.”
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