The Discovery of The Future: H. G. Wells's Bestseller & Famous Book
H. G. Wells
Feb 2014 · Namaskar Books
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The Discovery of the Future is a 1902 philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally delivered to the Royal Institution on January 24, 1902. Before appearing in book form, it was published by Richard Gregory in Nature on February 6, 1902, and was also published as part of the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. Short Summary Wells begins by distinguishing between two divergent types of mind, one that judges and attaches importance principally to what has happened in the past and one that judges and attaches importance principally to what will happen in the future. To the former he attributes the adjectives legal or submissive, passive, and oriental, and to the latter the adjectives legislative, creative, organizing, or masterful, and active, calling it a more modern and much less abundant type of mind. Wells devotes the last part of his text to speculations about the question what is to come after man..
The Discovery of the Future is a 1902 philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally delivered to the Royal Institution on January 24, 1902. Before appearing in book form, it was published by Richard Gregory in Nature on February 6, 1902, and...
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