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In The Fourth Year Anticipations Of A World Peace
Author: H.G. Wells

IN THE FOURTH YEAR ANTICIPATIONS OF A WORLD PEACE BY H. G. WELLS Author of Mr. Britling Sees It Through, Italy, France and Britain at War, etc. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 AH rights T, 1918 BY H. Gr. WELLS Set up and eleetrotyped. Published May, 1918 PEEFAOE IN the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a War of Ideas. A p... more »hrase, The War to end War, got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were al ready writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world they realized fully the ele ment of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperialism, and they denounced the Krupp-Kaiser alliance. But against such writ ing and such thought we had to count, in those days, great and powerful realities. Even to thos who expressed these ideas there lay visibly upon them the shadow of impracticability they were very advanced ideas in 1914, very Utopian. Against them was an unbroken mass of mental habit and public tradition. While we talked of this war to end war, the diplomatists of the Powers allied against Germany were busily spinning a dis vi PREFACE astrous web of greedy secret treaties, were answer ing aggression by schemes of aggression, were seeing in the treacherous violence of Germany only the jus tification for countervailing evil acts. To them it was only another war for ascendancy. That was three years and a half ago, and since then this war of ideas has gone on to a phase few of us had dared hope for in those opening days. The Rus sian revolution put a match to that pile of secret treaties and indeed to all the imperialist plans of the Allies in the end it will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a half ago a few of us were saying this was a war against the idea of imperialism, not German im perialism merely, but British and French and Russian imperialism, and we were saying this not because it was so but because we hoped to see it become so. To-day we can say so, because now it is so. In those days, moreover, we said this is the war to end war, and we still did not know clearly how. We thought in terms of treaties and alliances. It is largely the detachment and practical genius of the great English-speaking nation across the Atlan tic that has carried the world on beyond and replaced that phrase by the phrase, The League PREFACE vii of Nations, a phrase suggesting plainly the or ganization of a sufficient instrument by which war may be ended for ever. In 1913 talk of a World League of Nations would have seemed, to the ex tremist pitch, Utopian. To-day the project has an air not only of being so practicable, but of being so urgent and necessary and so manifestly the sane thing before mankind that not to be busied upon it, not to be making it more widely known and better understood, not to be working out its problems and bringing it about, is to be living outside of the con temporary life of the world. For a book upon, any other subject at the present time some apology may be necessary, but a book upon this subject is as natural a thing to produce now as a pair of skates in winter when the ice begins to bear. u All we writers find ourselves engaged perforce in some part or other of a world-wide propaganda of this the most creative and hopeful of political ideas that has ever dawned upon the consciousness of mankind. With no concerted plan we feel called upon to serve it. And in no connection would one so like to think oneself un-original as in this con nection...

ISBN-13: 9781406716627
ISBN-10: 1406716626
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 176
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Publisher: Lindemann Press
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