John S. Partington (ed.)

H. G. Wells in Nature, 1893-1946 A Reception Reader Contents

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General Introduction and Acknowledgements

Part 1: The Essays, Reviews and Letters by H. G. Wells

1.1 'Popularising Science' 1.2 'Science, in School and After School' 1.3 'Peculiarities of Psychical Research' 1.4 'The Sequence of Studies' 1.5 'Bio-optimism' 1.6 'The Discovery of the Future' 1.7 ' Education and Research' 1.8 'Men of Letters and Science in Russia' 1.9 'Scientific Neglect of the Mas d'AziF 1.10 'The Idea of a World Encyclopaedia' 1.11 'Biology for the Million' 1.12 'The Man of Science as Aristocrat' 1.13 'The Illusion of Personality' Part 2: Reviews of the Works of H. G. Wells

2.1 Text-book of Biology and Text-book of Zoology 2.2 The Time Machine 2.3 'Human Evolution, an Artificial Process' 2.4 The War of the Worlds 2.5 The First'Men in the Moon 2.6 Anticipations, Mankind in the Making and The Food of the Gods 2.7 A Modern Utopia 2.8 In the Days of the Comet 213 2.9 The Future in America 215 2.10 What is Coming? 223 2.11 The Outline of History and Mr Belloc Objects to 'The Outline of History' 227 2.12 The Salvaging of Civilisation 247 2.13 A Short History of the World 253 2.14 Men Like Gods 257 2.15 The Story of a Great Schoolmaster 265 2.16 The World of William Clissold 271 2.17 The Short Stories ofH. G. Wells 285 2.18 The Way the World is Going, The Open Conspiracy and What Are We To Do With Our Lives? 289 2.19 The Science of Life 297 2.20 The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind 305 2.21 After Democracy 311 2.22 The Shape of Things to Come 315 2.23 Experiment in Autobiography 319 2.24 The New America: The New World 331 2.25 Things to Come 333 2.26 Man Who Could Work Miracles 335 2.27 Anatomy of Frustration 337 2.28 Star Begotten 341 2.29 Tfie Camford Visitation 345 2.30 World Brain 347 2.31 The'Fate of Homo Sapiens, The New World Order and The Outlook for Homo Sapiens 3 51 2.32 Babes in the Darkling Wood 367 2.33 The Conquest of Time 369 2.34 Phoenix 377 2.35 Reshaping Man's Heritage 3 81 2.36 '42 to '44 385 Part 3: Other Mentions 389

3.1 'Science Teaching-an Ideal, and some Realities'(1894) 391 3.2 Richard Gregory, from 'National Aspects of Education' (1913) 393 3.3 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the British Science Guild (1917) 395 3.4 The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the British Science Guild (1922) 397 3.5 'The Duty and Service of Science in the New Era' (1922) 399 3.6 Wells as Labour Party Candidate (1922-23) 401 3.7 'Evolution and Intellectual Freedom'(1925) 403 3.8 Chair of Social Biology (1930) 415 3.9 Hyman Levy, 'Science in Literature' (1931) 417 3.10 'British-American Understanding'(1937) 421 3.11 'The Informative Content of Education'(1937) 423 3.12 Social Relations of Science (1938) 425 3.13 Brenda Tripp, 'Science and the Citizen: The Public Understanding of Science' (1943) 435 3.14 Fellowships of Imperial College, London (1943) ' 439 3.15 Doctorates of the University of London (1943) 441 3.16 'Thoughts on Reconstruction' (19 February 1944) 443 3.17 The Death of H. G.Weils (1946) 445

Short Biographies 457 Bibliography 489