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H. 6. Wells
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these blind alleys of selfishness,
darkness, cruelty and pain in which
our race must die; He is crying for
the high road which is salvation He
is commanding the organized unity of
mankind.
When men cease their inferno
cine war, then and then only can the
race sweep forward. The race will
grow in power and beauty swiftly.
in every generation it will grow All
this world will make a garden for
himself
All Agree With Vision
Now. there isn't human being who
will say he doesn't wish this vision
to come about-this vision of a world
in which man takes the enormous en-
ergy he now wastes in war and de-
votes 1t to conquering the diseases,
the weeds, and all the other impedi-
ments that make the present a Jobs
world for most of the human race.
But when Mr. Wells, in another of
his recent books, takes the actual
steps which must compose the first
marches head on against a formidable
mass of prejudices and inherited con
victions. He says the first thing to
do is to get rid of all things that
make cleavages among men He says
! he must get rid of national boundary
| lines; we must throw off national pa
, triotisms; we must achieve a common
| language. single world wide cur
| rency, and the like.
| Mr.. Wells attitude toward the
| League of Nations is one of disap-
! proval, but the reasons for his disap-
prevail are not the same as Hiram
| Johnson's for example
Doesn't Go Far Enough
Mr.. Wells disapproves of the League
| too far, but because it doesn't 90
| far enough, he says:
! 81 would have this idea of a human
unity put before peoples mind in the
form of a world state, and not in the
form Of League of Nations" he
wants world unity one world rule
/ is to substitute the one idea of ar
I overriding world commonwealth fol-
! the multitudinous ideas of little com
monweals that prevail everywhere to
day. The world perishes for the wani
of common political idea 1t i;
still quite possible to give the world
this common political idea, the idea
of a federal world state. We can
not help but set about doing it.
To all DIRECTORS, Mr.. Wells say;
this must be done and can be done
He instances the spread of Christ
ianity in western Europe, which in {
few centuries changed the whole o
western Europe from the wild con
fusion of warning tribes that sue
ceeded the breakdown of the Roman
empire into the unity of Christendom
into a community with such an idea o
unity that it could be reused from enc
to end by the common idea of the cru
sades."
What He Expects
That is what Mr. Wells not onl,
pleads for but expects He anticipates
it with as much confidence as in 189
he anticipated the airplane And
must be remembered that Mr. Well
is, by education and bent of mind
fundamentally a man of science. Hi
anticipation of the airplane is but on
of many prophecies which give hin
} not merely literary standing, but soli
scientific backing as a man of visio
in the physical as well as in tn
spiritual world.
Mr.. Wells, it will be observed, look
forward to something which is a con
i binaticn of the Crusades, the Frenc
Revolution and the spread of Chris
= ianity over western Europe, all role