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The Future in America: A Search After Realities is a 1906 travel essay by H. G. Wells recounting his impressions from the first of half a dozen visits he would make to the United States. The book consists of fifteen chapters and a concluding Read More..

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Description	The Future in America: A Search After Realities is a 1906 travel essay by H. G. Wells recounting his impressions from the first of half a dozen visits he would make to the United States. The book consists of fifteen chapters and a concluding "envoy".Wells describes the United States as "a great and energetic English-speaking population strewn across a continent so vast as to make it seem small and thin . . . caught by the upward sweep of that great increase of knowledge that is everywhere enlarging the power and scope of human effort, exhilarated by it, and active and hopeful beyond any population the world has ever seen" engaged in "a universal commercial competition that must, in the end, if it is not modified, divide them into two permanent classes of rich and poor."H.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 133 (Ch. 9, §1).Much of the book is devoted to an admittedly superficial discussion of American social problems: labor, corruption (through Jane Addams Wells was able to visit Chicago slums and a corrupt alderman's saloon), immigration (Wells called for either "a gigantic and costly machinery organized to educate and civilize" immigrants, or restriction "to numbers assimilable under existing conditions"H.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 145 (Ch. 9, §3).), "state-blindness" (by which Wells means the typical American's failure to perceive "that his business activities, his private employments, are constituents in a large collective process"H.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 153 (Ch. 10, §1).), injustice, racial prejudice (he met with Booker T. Washington, rejected the viability of segregation, and praised the "heroic" resolve of black AmericansH.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 201 (Ch. 12, §3).), American universities, Boston's excessive attachment to the past, and the urgent need for democratizing political reform.Specifically, Wells said that "It is necessary to make the Senate and the House of Representatives more interdependent, and to abolish the possibilities of deadlocks between them, to make election to the Senate direct from the people, and to qualify and weaken the power of the two-party system by the introduction of 'second ballots' and the referendum." H.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 245 (Ch. 15, §4). The last chapter of the book is devoted to impressions of Theodore Roosevelt, whom he visited at the White House and whom Wells sees as representative not only of the United States but also as "a very symbol of the creative will in man," "the creative purpose, the good-will in men."H.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 253 (Ch. 15, §5); emphasis in the original. The Future in America concludes with an "envoy" announcing that "in America, by sheer virtue of its size, its free traditions, and the habit of initiative in its people, the leadership of progress must ultimately rest."H.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 257.
Description	The Future in America: A Search After Realities is a 1906 travel essay by H. G. Wells recounting his impressions from the first of half a dozen visits he would make to the United States. The book consists of fifteen chapters and a concluding "envoy".Wells describes the United States as "a great and energetic English-speaking population strewn across a continent so vast as to make it seem small and thin . . . caught by the upward sweep of that great increase of knowledge that is everywhere enlarging the power and scope of human effort, exhilarated by it, and active and hopeful beyond any population the world has ever seen" engaged in "a universal commercial competition that must, in the end, if it is not modified, divide them into two permanent classes of rich and poor."H.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 133 (Ch. 9, §1).Much of the book is devoted to an admittedly superficial discussion of American social problems: labor, corruption (through Jane Addams Wells was able to visit Chicago slums and a corrupt alderman's saloon), immigration (Wells called for either "a gigantic and costly machinery organized to educate and civilize" immigrants, or restriction "to numbers assimilable under existing conditions"H.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 145 (Ch. 9, §3).), "state-blindness" (by which Wells means the typical American's failure to perceive "that his business activities, his private employments, are constituents in a large collective process"H.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 153 (Ch. 10, §1).), injustice, racial prejudice (he met with Booker T. Washington, rejected the viability of segregation, and praised the "heroic" resolve of black AmericansH.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 201 (Ch. 12, §3).), American universities, Boston's excessive attachment to the past, and the urgent need for democratizing political reform.Specifically, Wells said that "It is necessary to make the Senate and the House of Representatives more interdependent, and to abolish the possibilities of deadlocks between them, to make election to the Senate direct from the people, and to qualify and weaken the power of the two-party system by the introduction of 'second ballots' and the referendum." H.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 245 (Ch. 15, §4). The last chapter of the book is devoted to impressions of Theodore Roosevelt, whom he visited at the White House and whom Wells sees as representative not only of the United States but also as "a very symbol of the creative will in man," "the creative purpose, the good-will in men."H.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 253 (Ch. 15, §5); emphasis in the original. The Future in America concludes with an "envoy" announcing that "in America, by sheer virtue of its size, its free traditions, and the habit of initiative in its people, the leadership of progress must ultimately rest."H.G. Wells, The Future in America (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), p. 257.

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Name	The Future in America: A Search after Realities
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Authors	H. G. Wells
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Publisher	Chapman & Hall
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