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Title: New Worlds For Old
A Plain Account of Modern Socialism

Author: Herbert George Wells

Release Date: November 24, 2009 [EBook #30538]

Language: English

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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

_Published March 1908.
Popular Edition Revised
June 1909. Reprinted
July 1909, Sept. 1922_

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 po