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diff --git a/56484-8.txt b/56484-0.txt index a74ff01..ae5a51d 100644 --- a/56484-8.txt +++ b/56484-0.txt @@ -1,32 +1,7 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Future in America, by Herbert George Wells +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 56484 *** -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. -Title: The Future in America - A Search After Realities -Author: Herbert George Wells - -Release Date: February 2, 2018 [EBook #56484] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FUTURE IN AMERICA *** - - - - -Produced by ellinora, Graeme Mackreth and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) @@ -304,7 +279,7 @@ that was tremendous--that terrified. That is a phase in which lots of educated people remain to this day. "All this scheme of things, life, force, destiny which began not six thousand years, mark you, but an infinity ago, that has developed out of such strange weird shapes and -incredible first intentions, out of gaseous nebulæ, carboniferous +incredible first intentions, out of gaseous nebulæ, carboniferous swamps, saurian giantry and arboreal apes, is by the same tokens to continue, developing--into what?" That was the overwhelming riddle that came to me, with that realization of an End averted, that has come now @@ -406,7 +381,7 @@ material advantage, the business of prophecy is easy. But from the first I felt distrust for that facility in prophesying, I perceived that always there lurked something, an incalculable opposition to these mechanically conceived forces, in law, in usage and prejudice, in the -poiëtic power of exceptional individual men. I discovered for myself +poiëtic power of exceptional individual men. I discovered for myself over again, the inseparable nature of the two functions of the prophet. In my _Anticipations_, for example, I had intended simply to work out and foretell, and before I had finished I was in a fine full blast of @@ -436,7 +411,7 @@ claims as that history should be "scientific," and that economics and sociology (for example) are "sciences." Directly one gauges the fuller implications of that uniqueness of individuals Darwin's work has so permanently illuminated, one passes beyond that. The ripened prophet -realizes Schopenhauer--as indeed I find Professor Münsterberg saying. +realizes Schopenhauer--as indeed I find Professor Münsterberg saying. "The deepest sense of human affairs is reached," he writes, "when we consider them not as appearances but as decisions." There one has the same thing coming to meet one from the psychological side.... @@ -590,7 +565,7 @@ indignation instead of patriotic solicitude at the frequent sight of red-coats as I see them from my study window going to and fro to Shorncliffe camp. -Well I learn from Professor Münsterberg how vain my sense of +Well I learn from Professor Münsterberg how vain my sense of proprietorship is, but still this much of it obstinately remains, that I will at any rate _look_ at the American future. @@ -921,7 +896,7 @@ Americans think like that and all of them I fancy feel like it. Just in that spirit a later-empire Roman might have written apropos the gigantic new basilica of Constantine the Great (who was also, one recalls, a record-breaker in ship-building) and have compared it with -the straitened proportions of Cæsar's Forum and the meagre relics of +the straitened proportions of Cæsar's Forum and the meagre relics of republican Rome. So too (_absit omen_) he might have swelled into prophecy and sounded the true modern note. @@ -1386,7 +1361,7 @@ forced eccentricity, like doubting the coming of to-morrow. Of course Growth will go on.... The subject was changed by the sight of the fine marble buildings of -the Harvard medical school, a shining façade partially eclipsed by +the Harvard medical school, a shining façade partially eclipsed by several dingy and unsightly wooden houses. "These shanties will go, of course," says one of my companions. "It's @@ -1821,7 +1796,7 @@ nation as it impresses itself upon me. It is, you will understand, the vision of a hurried bird of passage, defective and inaccurate at every point of detail, but perhaps for my present purpose not so very much the worse for that. The fact that I am transitory and bring a sort of -theorizing naïveté to this review is just what gives me the chance +theorizing naïveté to this review is just what gives me the chance to remark these obvious things the habituated have forgotten. I have already tried to render something of the effect of huge unrestrained growth and material progress that America first gives one, and I @@ -1877,7 +1852,7 @@ two.... And this community, to which material progress is bringing such enormous powers, and that is knotted so densely here and there, and is otherwise so attenuated a veil over the huge land surface, is, -as Professor Münsterberg points out, in spite of vast and increasing +as Professor Münsterberg points out, in spite of vast and increasing masses of immigrants still a curiously homogeneous one, homogeneous in the spirit of its activities and speaking a common tongue. It is sustained by certain economic conventions, inspired throughout by @@ -2299,7 +2274,7 @@ have to have it made for you." These American spenders have got the whole world "beat" at the foolish game of collecting, and in all the peculiar delights of shopping they excel. And they are the crown and glory of hotel managers throughout -the world. There is something naïve, something childishly expectant +the world. There is something naïve, something childishly expectant and acquisitive, about this aspect of American riches. There appears no aristocracy in their tradition, no sense of permanence and great responsibility, there appears no sense of subordination and @@ -2330,7 +2305,7 @@ glittering procession of carriages and motor-carriages which I watched driving down Fifth Avenue, New York, apparently for the pleasure of driving up again, is to be paralleled on the Pincio, in Naples, in Paris, and anywhere where irresponsible pleasure-seekers gather -together. After the naïve joy of buying things comes the joy of +together. After the naïve joy of buying things comes the joy of wearing them publicly, the simple pleasure of the promenade. These things are universals. But nowhere has this spending struck me as being so solid and substantial, so nearly twenty-two carats fine, as @@ -3034,7 +3009,7 @@ several East-Siders in New York, with men engaged in public work in every city I have visited, with Senators at Washington, with a Chicago saloon-keeper and his friend, a shepherd of votes, and with a varied and casual assortment of Americans upon trains and boats; I read -my Ostrogorsky, my Otünsterberg, and my Roosevelt before I came to +my Ostrogorsky, my Otünsterberg, and my Roosevelt before I came to America, and I find myself going through any American newspaper that comes to hand always with an eye to this. It is to me a most vital issue in the horoscope I contemplate. All depends upon the answer to @@ -3807,9 +3782,9 @@ sustained disorder of local and political administration. Correlated with this is a great increase in personal luxury and need. In all these respects there is a strong parallelism between the present condition of the United States and the Roman Republic in the time of the early -Cæsars; and arguing from these alone one might venture to forecast +Cæsars; and arguing from these alone one might venture to forecast the steady development of an exploiting and devastating plutocracy, -leading perhaps to Cæsarism, and a progressive decline in civilization +leading perhaps to Cæsarism, and a progressive decline in civilization and social solidarity. But there are forces of recuperation and construction in America such as the earlier instance did not display. There is infinitely more original and originating thought in the @@ -3895,7 +3870,7 @@ him, how this has improved and that progressed, which contrasts between England and America struck upon his mind. That he himself is responsible amid these changes never seems to dawn upon him. His freedom from any sense of duty to the world as a whole, of any -subordination of trading to great ideas, is naïve and fundamental. +subordination of trading to great ideas, is naïve and fundamental. He tells of how he arranged with the authorities in charge of the Independence Day celebrations on Boston Common to display "three large pieces" containing the name of a certain "bitters," which they did, and @@ -3954,7 +3929,7 @@ the day. I often consulted with him regarding my own affairs, always getting the most practical help." When Dr. Parker came to America, the two friends corresponded warmly, -and several of the letters are quoted. Even "£5000 a year easily made" +and several of the letters are quoted. Even "£5000 a year easily made" could not tempt him from London and the modest opulence of the City Temple.... @@ -4198,7 +4173,7 @@ a scruple-destroying commercial training. That, at any rate, is my own prepossession. Conceivably I am over-disposed to make that tall lady in New York Harbor stand as a symbol for the liberty of property, and to trace the indisputable hastiness of life here--it is haste sometimes -rather than speed,--its scorn of æsthetic and abstract issues, this +rather than speed,--its scorn of æsthetic and abstract issues, this frequent quality of harshness, and a certain public disorder, whatever indeed mars the splendid promise and youth of America, to that. I think it is an accident of the commercial phase that presses men @@ -4457,7 +4432,7 @@ against cruelty and violence and massacre. That great figure of Liberty with the torch was to make it flare visibly half-way round the world, reproving tyranny. -Gorky arrived, and the _éclat_ was immense. We dined him, we lunched +Gorky arrived, and the _éclat_ was immense. We dined him, we lunched him, we were photographed in his company by flash-light. I very gladly shared that honor, for Gorky is not only a great master of the art I practise, but a splendid personality. He is one of those people to whom @@ -5004,7 +4979,7 @@ man is an ambassador to civilization. They know they have a handicap, that they are not exceptionally brilliant nor clever people. Yet every such man stands, one likes to think, aware of his representative and vicarious character, fighting against foul imaginations, -misrepresentations, injustice, insult, and the naïve unspeakable +misrepresentations, injustice, insult, and the naïve unspeakable meannesses of base antagonists. Every one of them who keeps decent and honorable does a little to beat that opposition down. @@ -5111,9 +5086,9 @@ America might conceivably come more and more under the control of a tacitly organized and exhausting plutocracy, be swamped by a swelling tide of ignorant and unassimilable labor immigrants, decline towards violence and social misery, fall behind Europe in education and -intelligence, and cease to lead civilization. In such a decay Cæsarism -would be a most probable and natural phase, Cæsarism and a splitting -into contending Cæsarisms. Come but a little sinking from intelligence +intelligence, and cease to lead civilization. In such a decay Cæsarism +would be a most probable and natural phase, Cæsarism and a splitting +into contending Cæsarisms. Come but a little sinking from intelligence towards coarseness and passion, and the South will yet endeavor to impose servitude anew upon its colored people, or secede--that trouble is not yet over. A little darkening and impoverishment of outlook and @@ -5138,7 +5113,7 @@ the unconscious or half-unconscious struggle of human thought to emerge from the sightless interplay of instinct, individual passion, prejudice, and ignorance. One sees this diviner element groping after law and order and fine arrangement, like a thing blind and half-buried, -in ancient Egypt, in ancient Judæa, in ancient Greece. It embodies +in ancient Egypt, in ancient Judæa, in ancient Greece. It embodies its purpose in religions, invents the disciplines of morality, the reminders of ritual. It loses itself and becomes confused. It wearies and rests. In Plato, for the first time, one discovers it conscious and @@ -5250,7 +5225,7 @@ of stimulated leisure. This is not a distinctly American effect. In Oxford, just as much as in Columbia, nay, far more! you find stone and student lording it over the creative mental thing; the dons go about like some sort of little short-coated parasite, pointing respectfully -to tower and façade, which have, in truth, no reason for existing +to tower and façade, which have, in truth, no reason for existing except to shelter them. Columbia is almost as badly off for means of publication as Oxford, and quite as poor in inducements towards creative work. Professors talk in an altogether British way of getting @@ -5317,7 +5292,7 @@ that is free from either privilege or pretension.... [Illustrations: HARVARD HALL AND THE JOHNSON GATE, CAMBRIDGE] -At Harvard, too, I met Professor Münsterberg, one of the few writers +At Harvard, too, I met Professor Münsterberg, one of the few writers of standing who have attempted a general review of the American situation. He is a tall fair German, but newly annexed to America, with a certain diplomatic quality in his personality, standing almost @@ -5410,7 +5385,7 @@ VI A Voice from Cornell I am impressed by the evident consciousness of the American -universities of the rôle they have to play in America's future. They +universities of the rôle they have to play in America's future. They seem to me pervaded by the constructive spirit. They are intelligently antagonistic to lethargic and self-indulgent traditions, to disorder, and disorderly institutions. It is from the universities that the @@ -5575,7 +5550,7 @@ of sculpture and painting, and particularly of the fluttering garments of the "Nike of Samothrace." (That I saw, also, in little casts and big, and photographed from every conceivable point of view.) It is incredible how many people in Boston have selected her for their -æsthetic symbol and expression. Always that lady was in evidence about +æsthetic symbol and expression. Always that lady was in evidence about me, unobtrusively persistent, until at last her frozen stride pursued me into my dreams. That frozen stride became the visible spirit of Boston in my imagination, a sort of blind, headless, and unprogressive @@ -5584,7 +5559,7 @@ to that I recall, as inseparably Bostonian, the dreaming grace of Botticelli's "Prima vera." All Bostonians admire Botticelli, and have a feeling for the roof of the Sistine chapel--to so casual and adventurous a person as myself, indeed, Boston presents a terrible, -a terrifying unanimity of æsthetic discriminations. I was nearly +a terrifying unanimity of æsthetic discriminations. I was nearly brought back to my childhood's persuasion that, after all, there is a right and wrong in these things. And Boston clearly thought the less of Mr. Bernard Shaw when I told her he had induced me to buy a @@ -5699,7 +5674,7 @@ dined with and wrangled with in my friend W.'s house in Blackheath, dear W., who, I believe, has never seen America--I think, I say, that Boston commits the scholastic error and tries to remember too much, to treasure too much, and has refined and studied and collected herself -into a state of hopeless intellectual and æsthetic repletion in +into a state of hopeless intellectual and æsthetic repletion in consequence. In these matters there are limits. The finality of Boston is a quantitive consequence. The capacity of Boston, it would seem, was just sufficient but no more than sufficient, to comprehend the whole @@ -5732,7 +5707,7 @@ so allusive. _What_ Princess?" It was, of course, that thing of Tennyson's. It is a long, frequently happy and elegant, and always meritorious narrative poem, in which a -chaste Victorian amorousness struggles with the early formulæ of the +chaste Victorian amorousness struggles with the early formulæ of the feminist movement. I had read it when I was a boy, I was delighted to be able to claim, and had honorably forgotten the incident. But in Boston they treat it as a living classic, and expect you to remember @@ -5816,7 +5791,7 @@ by way of Boston's autotypes. My main thesis was that culture, as it is conceived in Boston, is no contribution to the future of America, that cultivated people may be, in effect, as state-blind as--Mr. Morgan Richards. It matters little in the mind of the world whether -any one is concentrated upon mediæval poetry, Florentine pictures, or +any one is concentrated upon mediæval poetry, Florentine pictures, or the propagation of pills. The common, significant fact in all these cases is this, a blindness to the crude splendor of the possibilities of America now, to the tragic greatness of the unheeded issues that @@ -5894,7 +5869,7 @@ seemed, discreetly, to consider it did. It was in the vein of Washington's detached deadness that I should find Professor Langley (whose flying experiments I have followed for some years with close interest) was dead, and I went through the -long galleries of archæological specimens and stuffed animals in the +long galleries of archæological specimens and stuffed animals in the Smithsonian Institution to inflict my questions upon his temporary successor, Dr. Cyrus Adler. He had no adequate excuses. He found a kind of explanation in the want of enterprise of American publishers, @@ -6208,9 +6183,9 @@ I came away with the clear impression that neither President Roosevelt nor America will ever, as some people prophesy, "declare for socialism," but my impression is equally clear, that he and all the world of men he stands for, have done forever with the threadbare -formulæ that have served America such an unconscionable time. We talked +formulæ that have served America such an unconscionable time. We talked of the press and books and of the question of color, and then for a -while about the rôle of the universities in the life of the coming time. +while about the rôle of the universities in the life of the coming time. 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