The Salvaging of Civilization.

WELLS, H.G.

Item Number: 109023

London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1921.

First British edition of this work which addresses the possibility of a future world state. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

In The Salvaging of Civilization, Wells drew on the experience of the Great War to propose a socialist world state brought about through education and the manipulation of popular opinion. He outlines a new codification of morality and a readjustment of education based on the interests of the state, rather than the individual.