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New Worlds For Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism

New Worlds For Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism

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NEW WORLDS FOR OLD
A PLAIN ACCOUNT OF MODERN SOCIALISM


BY THE SAME AUTHOR

  • SHORT STORIES
    • The Plattner Story and others
    • Tales of Space and Time
    • The Stolen Bacillus and other Stories
    • Twelve Stories and a Dream
  • ROMANCES
    • The Time Machine
    • The Island of Dr. Moreau
    • The War of the Worlds
    • The Wonderful Visit
    • The Invisible Man
    • The First Men in the Moon
    • The Food of the Gods
    • The Sea Lady
    • When the Sleeper Wakes
    • In the Days of the Comet
  • NOVELS
    • Love and Mr. Lewisham
    • Kipps
  • SOCIOLOGICAL AND SOCIALIST ESSAYS
    • Anticipations
    • Mankind in the Making
    • A Modern Utopia
    • The Future in America

NEW WORLDS FOR OLD

A PLAIN ACCOUNT OF MODERN SOCIALISM

BY
H. G. WELLS

LONDON
CONSTABLE & COMPANY Ltd.
1912


INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

“Undiluted Atheism, theft and immorality…. I know of no language sufficiently potent to express fully my absolute detestation of what I believe to be the most poisonous doctrine ever put forward, namely Socialism.”

His Grace the Duke of Rutland.

“Let all parties then unite to defeat this insidious Socialism which is threatening the country, and take immediate steps to expose and bring it to light. The country may truly be said to be sleeping over a veritable volcano which the next general election may precipitate, unless steps are taken at once to bring this nightmare into the light of day and force it out of its creeping nocturnal habits.”

Mr. Dudley S. A. Cosby in the Westminster Review.

“Many people think that it is possible to conduct a victorious campaign with the single watchword ‘Down with Socialism.’ Well, I am not fond of mere negatives. I do not like fighting an abstract noun. My objection to Anti-Socialism as a platform is that Socialism means so many different things. On this point I agree with Mr. Asquith. I will wait before I denounce Socialism till I see what form it takes… Socialism is not necessarily synonymous with robbery. Correctly used, the word only signifies a particular view of the proper relation of the State to its citizens, a tendency to substitute public for private ownership, or to restrict the freedom of individual enterprise in the interests of the public. But there are some forms of property which we all admit should be public and not private, and the freedom of individual enterprise is already limited by a hundred laws. Socialism and Individualism,—I am not fond of these abstract phrases. There are opposing principles which enter in various proportions into the constitution of every civilized society. It is merely a question of degree. One community is more Socialistic than another. The same community is more Socialistic at one time than at another. This country is far more Socialistic than it was fifty years ago, and for most of the changes in that direction the Unionist or Tory Party is

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