The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

Now in his sixty-ninth, year, H. G. Wells came on the scene when the rhythm and recoil of industry were beginning to crack the foundations of nineteenth-century life. With the perception of a technician, he argued that machines were to liberate mankind, and his novels and pamphlets were from the first proclamations of a changing order. To-day, at the vantage point of maturity, he looks back and summarizes his own course so that those who are younger and less aware will know what to avoid and what to desire in the future.