The open conspiracy : blue prints for a world revolution / H.G. Wells

Object Details

author

Wells, H. G (Herbert George) 1866-1946

bookjacket designer

Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight) 1890-1954

publisher

Victor Gollancz Ltd.

printer

Camelot Press Ltd.

papermaker

Spalding & Hodge

binder

Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co.

The bookjacket is signed by the designer, EMCKK [Edward McKnight Kauffer].

"Printed in Great Britain by the Camelot Press, Ltd., London and Southampton, on paper supplied by Spalding & Hodge Ltd., and bound by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co., Ltd." --Colophon.

CHMRB copy 39088020038816 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries. Purchased from the Special Collections Endowment.

CHMRB copy has the publisher's black cloth binding with red-lettered spine title; in a color-printed and illustrated bookjacket, as issued. With a later clear Mylar overwrap for preservation.

Contents

Necessity of religion to human life -- Subordination of self the essence of religion -- Need for a restatement of religion -- Objective expression of modern religion -- The frame of the task before mankind: the world commonweal -- Broad characteristics of the world commonweal -- No stable utopia is contemplated -- The open conspiracy must be heterogeneous -- Forces and resistances in the great modern communities now prevalent, which will be antagonistic to the open conspiracy -- The open conspiracy and the resistances of the less industrialised peoples -- Resistances and antagonistic forces in ourselves -- The open conspiracy must begin as a movement of explanation and propaganda -- Early constructive work of the open consipracy -- Existing and developing movements with which the open conspiracy may hope to coalesce -- The creative home, social group and school: the present waste of youthful seriousness -- Progressive development of the activities of the open conspiracy into a world control and commonweal: the hazards of the conflict -- The world community -- Marginal note

1928

Call number

HX811 .W45 1928

Type

Texts

Physical description

156 pages ; 19 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Utopias

Sociology

Social problems

Record ID

siris_sil_1104230

Metadata Usage (text)

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