Exact facsimile of 1928 Edition.
The book is, in Wells's words, a ``scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its present dangers, uncertainties and miseries.
`` It proposes that largely as the result of scientific progress, a common vision of a world ``politically, socially and economically unified`` is emerging among educated and influential people, and that this can be the basis of ``a world revolution aiming at universal peace, welfare and happy activity`` that can result in the establishment of a ``world commonweal.
`` This is to be achieved by ``drawing together a proportion of all or nearly all the functional classes in contemporary communities in order to weave the beginnings of a world community out of their selection.
`` This will ultimately ``be a world religion.
`` Still topical in light of the conflicts resulting from efforts to establish the European Community and the New Global Order.