‘All credit is State-made, and what the State has made the State can alter or destroy.’
Written during the First World War, H. G. Wells analyses the effects of the Great War and attempts to forecast the future that is to come. Wells predicts that the war will cause a fundamental shift in the thinking and living pattern of all classes in all countries involved. Wishing for a peaceful future, Wells proposes that a common world state will be the only method to prevent any future devastations.
Herbert George Wells, commonly known as H. G. Wells, was a British writer and one of the most famous science fiction writers in the world. His most notable books include The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds.