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Wells, H. G.

  1. An English author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, much concerned with social and political reform. He wrote futuristic novels, such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine; historical and scientific works, such as Outline of History; and comic novels.



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Wells, H. G., Utopia, 2, 230, 231; Anticipations, 231; Mankind in the Making, 231; J.'s appreciation of, 231; Kipps, 241; "Two Studies in Disappointment," 259, 260; First and Last Things, 316; the Tolstoy of the English World, 316; mentioned, 246, 257, 318.

Wells, H. G.,160 Whitman, W.,18 Wilamowitz,141, 199 William the Silent,35 "Wisdom," 38, 50, 92, 109, 194 Women in Athens,32 f.,

Wells, H. G., 151, 496, 498, 932, 935, 1009.

Wells, H. G., theories of, on foretelling the future, 81, 83.

Wells, H. G.: "Is Socialism a movement or an idea?" xi; on the social reform program, 3; on the "State Socialist" labor policy, 62; on British Socialism, 155-157,159; on social classes, 296,325; on the transition, 428.

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