tion>H. G. Wells
THE FUTURE IN AMERICA
(Illustrated)
A Search After Realities
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter I. The Prophetic Habit Of Mind
Chapter II. Material Progress
Chapter III. New York
Chapter IV. Growth Invincible
Chapter V. The Economic Process
Chapter VI. Some Aspects Of American Wealth
Chapter VII. Certain Workers
Chapter VIII. Corruption
Chapter IX. The Immigrant
Chapter X. State-Blindness
Chapter XI. Two Studies In Disappointment
Chapter XII. The Tragedy Of Color
Chapter XIII. The Mind Of A Modern State
Chapter XIV. Culture
Chapter XV. At Washington
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Illustration 1. Frontispiece. Fifth Avenue, New York
Illustration 2. Entrance to Brooklyn Bridge
Illustration 3. State Street, Chicago
Illustration 4. Western Farmers Still Own Their Farms
Illustration 5. Plump and Pretty Pupils of Extravagance
Illustration 6. New York’s Crowded, Littered East Side
Illustration 7. Breaker Boys at a Pennsylvania Colliery
Illustration 8. Interior of a New York Office Building
Illustration 9. Where Immigrant Children Are Americanized
Illustration 10. Harvard Hall and the Johnson Gate, Cambridge
Illustration 11. A Bit of Princeton University
Illustration 12. In the Congressional Library
First published in Harper’s Weekly, July 14-October 6, 1906 First book edition: Harper & Brothers, New York & London, 1906
I. — THE PROPHETIC HABIT OF MIND
(At a writing-desk in Sandgate)
§ I
“Are you a Polygamist?”
“Are you an Anarchist?”
The questions seem impertinent.
