H. G. Wells:  EXPERIMENT IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
DISCOVERIES AND CONCLUSIONS OF A VERY ORDINARY BRAIN
SINCE 1866

    CONTENTS

        1 INTRODUCTORY
[§1 PRELUDE (1932)/ §2 PERSONA AND PERSONALITY/ §3 QUALITY OF THE BRAIN AND BODY CONCERNED (1866-)]
        2 ORIGINS
[§1 47, HIGH STREET, BROMLEY, KENT/ §2 SARAH NEAL (1822-1905)/ §3 UP PARK AND JOSEPH WELLS (1827-1910)/ §4 SARAH WELLS AT ATLAS HOUSE (1855-80)/ §5 A BROKEN LEG AND SOME BOOKS AND PICTURES (1874)]
        3 SCHOOLBOY
[§1 MR MORLEY'S COMMERCIAL ACADEMY (1874-80)/ §2 PUERILE VIEW OF THE WORLD (1878-79)/ §3 MRS WELLS, HOUSEKEEPER AT UP PARK (1880-93)/ §4 FIRST START IN LIFE - WINDSOR (SUMMER 1880)/ §5 SECOND START IN LIFE - WOOKEY (WINTER 1880)/ §6 INTERLUDE AT UP PARK (1880-81)/ §7 THIRD START IN LIFE - MIDHURST (1881)]
        4 EARLY ADOLESCENCE
[§1 FOURTH START IN LIFE - SOUTHSEA (1881-83)/ §2 THE Y.M.C.A., THE FREETHINKER; A PREACHER AND THE READING ROOM/ §3 FIFTH START IN LIFE, MIDHURST (1883-84)/ §4 FIRST GLIMPSES OF PLATO - AND HENRY GEORGE/ §5 QUESTIONS OF CONSCIENCE/ §6 WALKS WITH MY FATHER]
        5 SCIENCE STUDENT IN LONDON
[§1 PROFESSOR HUXLEY AND THE SCIENCE OF BIOLOGY (1884-85)/ §2 PROFESSOR GUTHRIE AND THE SCIENCE OF PHYSICS (1885-86)/ §3 PROFESSOR JUDD AND THE SCIENCE OF GEOLOGY (1886-87)/ §4 DIVAGATIONS OF A DISCONTENTED STUDENT (1884-87)/ §5 SOCIALISM (WITHOUT A COMPETENT RECEIVER) AND WORLD CHANGE/ §6 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDENT'S LIFE (1884-87)/ §7 HEART'S DESIRE]
        6 STRUGGLE FOR A LIVING
[§1 SIXTH START IN LIFE OR THEREABOUTS (1887)/ §2 BLOOD IN THE SPUTUM (1887)/ §3 SECOND ATTACK ON LONDON (1888)/ §4 HENLEY HOUSE SCHOOL (1889-90)/ §5 THE UNIVERSITY CORRESPONDENCE COLLEGE (1890-93)/ §6 COLLAPSE INTO LITERARY JOURNALISM (1893-94)/ §7 EXHIBITS IN EVIDENCE]
        7 DISSECTION
[§1 COMPOUND FUGUE/ §2 PRIMARY FIXATION/ §3 MODUS VIVENDI/ §4 WRITINGS ABOUT SEX/ §5 DIGRESSION ABOUT NOVELS]
        8 FAIRLY LAUNCHED AT LAST
[§1 DUOLOGUE IN LODGINGS (1894-05)/ §2 LYNTON, STATION ROAD, WOKING (1895)/ §3 HEATHERLEA, WORCESTER PARK (1896-97)/ §4 NEW ROMNEY AND SANDGATE (1898)/ §5 EDIFYING ENCOUNTERS: SOME TYPES OF PERSONA AND TEMPERAMENTAL ATTITUDE (1897-1910)/ §6 BUILDING A HOUSE (1899-1900)]
        9 THE IDEA OF A PLANNED WORLD
[§1 ANTICIPATIONS (1900) AND THE "NEW REPUBLIC"/ §2 THE SAMURAI - IN UTOPIA AND IN THE FABIAN SOCIETY (1905-9)/ §3 "PLANNING" IN THE DAILY MAIL (1912)/ §4 THE GREAT WAR AND MY RESORT TO "GOD" (1914-16)/ §5 WAR EXPERIENCES OF AN OUTSIDER/ §6 WORLD STATE AND LEAGUE OF NATIONS/ §7 WORLD EDUCATION/ §8 WORLD REVOLUTION/ §9 CEREBRATION AT LARGE AND BRAINS IN KEY POSITIONS/ §10 ENVOY]
        INDEX

[INTRODUCTORY §1 PRELUDE (1932): Has material on flight, trying to find a Great Good Place, which I noticed only today as a theme in Wells (on Gissing, in Clissold going to South of France, Northcliffe escaping to the country etc]

[INTRODUCTORY §2 PERSONA AND PERSONALITY]

[INTRODUCTORY §3 QUALITY OF THE BRAIN AND BODY CONCERNED (1866-)]
    - [Note: biology: Interesting introduction speculates discursively on the differences between brains, as in a flower show or baby show; he considers them more greatly different than had occurred to me, his own, for instance, being good at 'outlines' but not responding exuberantly and brightly to external stimuli. He also describes his own failures of memory and recall; for example, he admires taxi drivers for their certainty in finding their way in London. There's more on this 106 on Bowkett & Rebecca West saying "Look" to him, and near the end of the book. This comes into my category of things which are 'hard to tell'.]
    - [Tono-Bungay's Ponderevo character was based on man (and wife) in a bright little pharmacists shop which he liked and worked in (until he pointed out to his mum that she couldn't afford the fees)]

[ORIGINS §1 47, HIGH STREET, BROMLEY, KENT]
- 38-9: '.. I seem to recall a sort of Holland pinafore for everyday use very like what small boys still wear in France, except that it was brown instead of black holland.'
- 39: '.. one of a row of badly built houses.. In front upon the ground floor was the shop.. behind the shop was an extremely small room, the "parlour," with a fireplace, a borrowed light and glass-door upon the shop and a larger window upon the yard behind. A murderously narrow staircase with a twist in it led downstairs to a completely subterranean kitchen, lit by a window which derived its light from a grating on the street level, and a bricked scullery, which, since the house was poised on a bank, opened into the yard at the ground level below. In the scullery was a small fireplace, a copper boiler for washing, a provision cupboard, a bread pan, a beer cask, a pump delivering water from a well into a stone sink, and space for coal.. beneath the wooden stairs. This "coal cellar" held about a ton of coal, and when the supply was renewed it had to be carried in sacks through the shop and "parlour" ..
The yard was perhaps thirty or forty feet square. In it was a brick erection, the "closet", an earth jakes over a cesspool, within perhaps twenty feet of the well and pump; and above this closet was a rain-water tank. Behind it was the brick dustbin (cleared at rare intervals via the shop), a fairly open and spacious receptacle. In this a small boy could find among the ashes such objects of interest as eggshells, useful tins and boxes. The ashes could be rearranged to suggest mountain scenery. There was a boundary wall, separating us from the much larger yard of Mr Covell the butcher, in which pigs, sheep and horned cattle were harboured violently, and protested plaintively throughout the night before they were slaughtered. .. Beyond it was Bromley Church and its old graveyard, full of healthy trees, ruinous tombs and headstones askew - in which I had an elder sister buried. ..
Our yard was half bricked and half bare earth, and an open cement gutter brought the waste waters of the sink to a soak-away in the middle of the space. Thence, no doubt, soap-suds and cabbage water, seeped away to mingle with the graver accumulations of the "closet" and the waters of the well from which the pump drew our supply. ...
I "played" a lot in this yard.. Its effect of smallness was enhanced by the erections in the neighbours' yards on either side. .. Mr Munday, the haberdasher, .. had put up a greenhouse and cultivated mushrooms, to nourish which his boys collected horse-droppings from the High Street.. and.. Mr Cooper, the tailor, had built out a workroom in which two or three tailors sat and sewed. ...
...
.. We were much too poor to have a servant.. Above the ground floor and reached by an equally tortuous staircase - I have seen my father reduced to a blind ecstasy of rage in an attempt to get a small sofa up it - were a back bedroom occupied by my mother and a front room occupied by my father.. and above this again there was a room, the boys' bedroom (there were three of us) and a back attic filled with dusty crockery stock. But there was stock everywhere; ...'

[ORIGINS §2 SARAH NEAL (1822-1905)]
    - 43: '.. born.. 1822.. when King George IV was king, and three years before the opening of the first steam railway. It was still an age of horse and foot transit, sailing ships and undiscovered lands. .. George Neal (born 1797).. Midhurst was a little old sunny rag-stone built town on the road from London to Chichester, and my grandfather stabled the relay of horses for the stage coach as his father had done.. An uncle of his drove a coach, ... went straight over the wharf into the pool at the head of the old canal, and was handsomely drowned together with his horses. It was a characteristic of my mother's family to be easily lit and confused by alcohol, but never subdued to inaction by it. ..'
    - 44-46: [1833-1836: finishing school of Miss Riley in Chichester where Sarah Neal was sent when her dad, George Neal, who kept the Fountains Inn (Wells thinks) and New Inn at Chichester, then came into 'some property through the death of my great-grandfather' when she was about 11:] '.. finishing school for young ladies.. in a year or so she showed such aptitude for polite learning, that she learnt to write in the clear angular handwriting reserved for women in those days, to read, to do sums up to, but not quite including, long division, the names of the countries and capitals of Europe and the counties and county towns of England (with particular attention to the rivers they were "on") and from Mrs Markham's History all that it was seemly to know about the Kings and Queens of England. Moreover she learnt from Magnell's Questions the names of the four elements.. the seven wonders of the world (or was it nine?), the three diseases of wheat, and many such facts which Miss Riley deemed helpful to her... (But she never really mastered the names of the nine Muses and over what they presided, and though she begged and prayed my [2007 note - her?] father that she might learn French, it was an Extra and she was refused it.) .. edifying books.. warned against worldly novels, the errors and wiles of Rome, French cooking and the insidious treachery of men, .. prepared for confirmation..
An interesting thing about this school of Miss Riley's, .. in so many respects a very antiquated 18th century school, was the strong flavour of early feminism it left in her mind. I do not think it is on record anywhere, but it is plain to me.. that among schoolmistresses and such like women at any rate, there was a stir of emancipation associated with the claim, ultimately successful, of the Princess Victoria, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, to succeed King William IV. There was a movement against that young lady based on her sex and this had provoked in reaction a wave of feminine partisanship.. It picked up reinforcement from an earlier trouble between George the Fourth and Queen Caroline. .. my mother.. followed the life of Victoria, her acts and utterances, her goings forth and her lyings in.. in fact my mother's compensatory personality, her imaginary consolation..'
[65 she clung desperately to the values of Miss Riley..]
    - 48: [Hell and torment illustrated in Sturm's Reflections]
    - 48: [Her simple faith that God our Father and Saviour (but the Holy Ghost was ignored) personally and through occasional angels would mind her, would not be indifferent to prayers, and had to be good continually and not give Satan a chance.]
    - 47,49: '.. my mother's mental picture of the world.. [c 1835] It was a world much more like Jane Austen's than Fanny Burney's, but at a lower social level. Its chintz was second-hand, and its flowered muslin cheap and easily tired. Still more was it like the English countryside of Bleak House. It was a countryside, for as yet my mother knew nothing of London. Over it all ruled God our Father.. he was entirely confused in her mind, because of the mystery of the Holy Trinity, with "Our Saviour" or "Our Lord" - who was rarely mentioned by any other names. ..'
49: [Wells's mum, Sarah Neal, goes into service as a lady's-maid, after four years' apprenticeship as a dressmaker, 1836-1840 and instruction in hair-dressing:] 'It was a world of other ladies'-maids and valets, of house stewards, housekeepers, cooks and butlers, upper servants above the level of maids and footmen, a downstairs world, but living in plentiful good air, well fed and fairly well housed in the attics, basements and interstices of great mansions. It was an old-fashioned world; most of its patterns of behaviour and much of its peculiar idiom, were established in the 17th century; its way of talking, its style of wit, was in an unbroken tradition from the Polite Conversation of Dean Swift, and it had customs and an etiquette all its own. ..'
    - 49-50: [1850 Sarah Neal is maid to a Miss Bullock at Up Park, and visits Ireland and other places, recording her impressions in a diary 'slightly reminiscent of the romantic fiction of the time' with stuff about the keen, bitter anguish of my heart and false wicked man.] 51: Perhaps met Joseph at a country dance like 'Hands Across and Down the Middle, Sir Roger de Coverley, Pop Goes the Weasel..' at 50 'weekly dance by candlelight to the music of concertina and fiddle.'

[ORIGINS §3 UP PARK AND JOSEPH WELLS (1827-1910)]
    - 52: '.. Up Park.. walled gardens, containing the gardener's cottage.. three or four hundred yards or more away from the main buildings. There was an outlying laundry, dairy, butcher's shop and stables in the early 18th C style, and a turfed-over ice house. Up Park was built by a Fetherstonehaugh, and it has always been in the hands of that family.
In the beginning of the 19th C the reigning Fetherstonehaugh was a certain Sir Harry, an intimate of the Prince Regent who was afterwards George IV. .. An early mistress was that lovely young adventuress Emma ... In his declining years Sir Harry was smitten with desire for an attractive housemaid. .. married her. No offspring ensued. She brought her younger sister with her to the house and engaged a governess, Miss Sutherland, to chaperon her and it was after Sir Harry's death that my mother became maid to this [sic] younger Miss Bullock.
.. nobody married Miss Bullock.. Sir Harry being duly interred, the three ladies led a spacious dully comfortable life between Up Park and Claridge's. .. forty years after his death, .. "Sir H's bedroom" is still called by his name..'
    - 54-55: [Description of Wells's father's antecedents and their 'lack of originality at Christenings'; he was an out-of-doors, open-air man; Joseph Wells of Redleaf (no relation; and what Redleaf was isn't made clear) 'an old gentleman with liberal and aesthetic tastes' encouraged Joseph to read botany and gardening; 'he had an aptitude for drawing'. Landseer visited Redleaf & Wells was a model on several occasions (though a flood at the Tate destroyed 'The Maid and the Magpie' in which he peeped at a milkmaid.)]
    -55 -56: '.. Unrest was in the air. He talked of emigration to America or Australia. I think the friendliness of Joseph Wells had stirred up vague hopes and ambitions..
.. in the tradition of the 18th C when the nobility and gentry ruled everything under God and the King, when common men knew nothing of the possibility of new wealth, and when either Patronage or a Legacy was the only conceivable way for them out of humdrum rigid limitation... That system was crumbling away; strange new things were undermining it, but I think it was solely in rare moments.. that my father glimpsed its instability. .. little more suspicion that their world of gentlemen's estates and carriage-folk and villages and country houses and wayside inns and nice little shops and horse ploughs and windmills and touching one's hat to one's betters, would not endure for ever, than they had that their God in his Heaven was under notice to quit.'
    - 56: [His father had been 'a star-gazer', says Wells, meaning he'd lie on the downs at night half the night, just looking at the stars, wondering.]
    - 59: '.. She was that sort of woman who is an incorrigibly bad cook. By nature and upbringing alike she belonged to that middle-class of dependents who occupied situations, performed strictly defined duties, gave or failed to give satisfaction and had no ideas at all outside that dependence. People of that quality "saved up for a rainy day" but they were without the slightest trace of primary productive or acquisitive ability. ..
He was at any rate a producer.. but he shared her incapacity for getting and holding things. They were both economic innocents made by and for a social order, a scheme of things, that was falling to pieces all about them. ..'

[ORIGINS §4 SARAH WELLS AT ATLAS HOUSE (1855-80)]
    - 64: [Wells' dead sister; deficient in vitamins? NB: cp Third World children..]
    - 65: 'Vast unsuspected forces beyond her ken were steadily destroying the social order, the horse and sailing ship transport, the handicrafts and tenant-farming social order, to which all her beliefs were attuned and on which all her confidence was based. ..'
    - 65: [Bromley suburbanized; railways, multiple retailers, delivery vans..]

[ORIGINS §5 A BROKEN LEG AND SOME BOOKS AND PICTURES (1874)]
77: Wood's Natural History scared HG with its fearsome picture of the gorilla.
    - 79: Wells suggests Freud is nonsense - but may be true for Austrian Jews and Levantines

[SCHOOLBOY §1 MR MORLEY'S COMMERCIAL ACADEMY (1874-80)]
    - 93: [Note: education that helped First World War?] '.. In spirit, form and intention they were inferior schools, and to send one's children to them in those days, as my mother understood perfectly well, was a definite and final acceptance of social inferiority. The Education Act of 1871 was.. an Act to educate the lower classes for employment on lower class lines, and with specially-trained, inferior teachers..'
507: '.. enlarged the reading public.. stimulated the middle class by a sense of possible competition from below. ...'

[SCHOOLBOY §2 PUERILE VIEW OF THE WORLD (1878-79)]
    - 97: Poe's Narrative of A Gordon Pym, intelligent man imagining inside the earth - 'since solidified considerably'
    - 98: [Antediluvian animals at Crystal Palace 'left out of the ark' explains Wells' ma - including ichthyosaurus. Later 'I pored over Humboldt's Cosmos [pubd in German 1845-62, says OCEL] and began to learn something of geological time.']
    - 99 J R Green's History, 1874, and Nordics ['quite the best make of human being known'] and Teutonics, 'England was consciously Teutonic in those days.. the monarchy and Thomas Carlyle were strong influences.. "Keltic fringe".. 'the defeat of France in 1870-71 seemed to be the final defeat of the decadent Latin peoples. This blended very well with the anti-Roman Catholic influence of the 18th C Protestant training.. We English, by sheer native superiority.. had possessed ourselves of an Empire.. forced slowly but steadily - and quite modestly - towards world dominion.'
    - 99-100: [English history as it was taught to Wells; and romantic militarism in himself, and in people he subsequently met:]
'.. after some centuries of royal criminality, civil wars and wars in France, achieved the Reformation and blossomed out into the Empire; ..
In those days I had ideas about Aryans extraordinarily like Mr Hitler's. The more I hear of him the more I am convinced that his mind is almost the twin of my thirteen year old mind.. but heard through a megaphone and - implemented. .. my first glimpse of the Great Aryan People going to and fro in the middle plains of Europe, spreading.. , varying their consonants according to Grimm's Law as they did so, and driving the inferior breeds into the mountains. .. Their ultimate triumphs everywhere squared accounts with the Jews, against which people I had a subconscious dissatisfaction because of their disproportionate share of Holy Writ. ..
I had reveries.. and I liked especially to dream that I was a great military dictator like Cromwell, a great republican like George Washington or like Napoleon in his earlier phases. I used to fight battles whenever I went for a walk alone. .. meanly clad and whistling detestably.. no one suspected that a phantom staff pranced about me and phantom orderlies galloped at my commands, to shift the guns and concentrate fire on those houses below, to launch the final attack on yonder distant ridge. .. St Martin's Hill indeed is one of the great battlegrounds of history. Scores of times the enemy skirmishers have come across those levels, followed by the successive waves of the infantry attack, while I, outnumbered five to one, manoeuvred my guns round, the guns I had refrained so grimly from using too soon in spite of the threat to my centre, to enfilade them suddenly from the curving slopes towards Beckenham. "Crash" came the first shell...
.. I was simple even in victory. I made wise and firm decisions.. particularly about those Civil Service Stores which had done so much to bankrupt my father. With inveterate enemies, monarchists, Roman Catholics, non-Aryans and the like I was grimly just. Stern work - but my duty.
In fact Adolf Hitler is nothing more than one of my thirteen year old reveries come real. A whole generation of Germans has failed to grow up.'
    - 102: '.. while my mind was full of international conflicts, alliances, battleships and guns, I was blankly ignorant about money.. I never dreamed of making dams, opening ship canals, irrigating deserts or flying. I had no inkling of the problem of ways and means; .. nothing existed to catch my imagination in that direction. .. I think there is no natural bias towards blood-shed in imaginative youngsters, but the only vivid and inspiring things that history fed me with were campaigns and conquests. In Soviet Russia they tell me they have altered all that.
For many years my adult life was haunted by the fading memories of those early war fantasies. .. I have met men in responsible positions, L S Amery for example, Winston Churchill, George Trevelyan, C F G Masterman, whose imaginations were manifestly built upon a similar framework and who remained puerile in their political outlook because of its persistence. I like to think I grew up out of that stage .. between 1916 and 1920..'
    - [103: Frank, his eldest brother, who fiddled with trains etc; and Freddy, elder, who was more orderly]
    - 104: 'Our home was not one of those where general ideas are discussed at table. ...'
    - 105: [Friends with, and teams up with after a fight, Sidney Bowkett, 'the son of a London publican.']

[SCHOOLBOY §3 MRS WELLS, HOUSEKEEPER AT UP PARK (1880-93)]

[SCHOOLBOY §4 FIRST START IN LIFE - WINDSOR (SUMMER 1880)]

[SCHOOLBOY §5 SECOND START IN LIFE - WOOKEY (WINTER 1880)]
    - 126 teaching in elementary schools largely by very young P.T.s, presumably pupil-teachers [cp Mill]
    - 126-8: [Uncle Williams, devisor of school desk with unspillable inkwell, who sank and was thrown out of his own business:] '.. great contempt for religion and the clergy. His table talk was unrestrained. .. He gave me a new angle from which to regard the universe; I had not hitherto considered that it might be an essentially absurd affair, good only to laugh at. That seemed in many ways a releasing method of approach. ..'

[SCHOOLBOY §6 INTERLUDE AT UP PARK (1880-81)]
    - 135: [Wells enjoyed 'Up Park' and seems to have formed from that an affection for 18th century country houses; he gives a nice and detailed sketch of the dead occupants and their activities and the start of collections and curios and research. But cp Frank Harris on this aristocratic admiration of his:]
'Now it is one of my firmest convictions that modern civilization was begotten and nursed in the households of the prosperous, relatively independent people, the minor nobility, the gentry, and the larger bourgeoisie, which became visibly important in the landscape of the 16th C, introducing a new architectural element in the towns, and spreading as country houses and chateaux and villas over the continually more orderly countryside. Within these households, behind their screen of deer park and park wall and sheltered service, men could talk, think and write at their leisure. They were free from inspections and immediate imperatives. They, at least, could go on after thirteen [he's just discussed suitable age to leave school & concluded 13 is too young] thinking and doing as they pleased. They created the public schools, revived the waning universities, went on the Grand Tour to see and learn. They could be interested in public affairs without being consumed by them. The management of their estates kept them in touch with reality without making exhaustive demands on their time. .. quite a sufficient number remained curious and interested to make, foster and protect the accumulating science and literature of the 17th and 18th Cs. Their large rooms, their libraries, their collections of pictures and "curios" retained into the 19th C an atmosphere of unhurried liberal enquiry, of serene and determined insubordination and personal dignity, of established aesthetic and intellectual standards. Out of such houses came the Royal Society, the Century of Inventions, [book title mntioned in 'The Shape of Things to Come'] the first museums and laboratories and picture galleries, gentle manners, good writing, and nearly all that is worth while in our civilization to-day. .. the experimental cellule of the coming Modern State. ..'
[Describes them in the 20th century, empty shells, shooting parties; and Up Park with attic of Vatican paintings, brass Gregorian telescope, free-thinking books including Plato's Republic which he found eye-opening; I think his sub-interest in utopias (see e.g. passage in Mr Britling, and his history books) must have dated from this point]

[SCHOOLBOY §7 THIRD START IN LIFE - MIDHURST (1881)]
    - 139: [Wells liked Latin, 'this fine structured language', as he'd liked Euclid; in 5 hours he made more progress with 140: Smith's Principia than farmer's sons etc etc in a year. His total experience with the classical languages thus seems only about five hours, 'the greater part' of vol. 1 of Smith (which he mentions twice).]
    - 140: [Wells tries teaching:] Horace Byatt MA headmaster, graduate of Dublin University, & e.g. Latin 'ceased to be a language.. an exercise directed to the passing of.. examinations'
172 son, Sir Horace Byatt revisits years later (Uganda, imperialist; only ex-Midhurst success; said as little as possible about Africa.. Note: Compare Harold Smith as another clever boy sent to the colonies. NB: Also strikes me Byatt, a modern woman writer, might well be related)
    - 142 Note: examinations: Wells says one thing in favour of exams is marshalling knowledge in orderly fashion without 'great cavities of vagueness, those preferential obsessions, those disproportions between detail and generalization'
    - 144 '.. sudden irruption of new ideas.. If I had been the son of an instructive-minded astronomer and had been bothered with early lessons about the stars.. I might not have made my first contact with the starry heavens in a state of exaltation, nor pursued Jupiter with the help of Whitaker's Almanack until, with my own eyes, I saw him and his moons quivering in the field of my own telescope, as though I were Galileo come back to earth. Nor should I have realized with anything like the same excitement, had geology been made easy for me.. that when I stood on the brow of Telegraph Hill and looked across the weald to the North Downs I was standing on the escarpment of a denuded anticlinal, and that this stuff of the pale hills under my feet had once been slime at the bottom of a vanished Cretaceous sea. ..'

[EARLY ADOLESCENCE §1 FOURTH START IN LIFE - SOUTHSEA (1881-83)]
    - 149: [Note: technical terms:] alien and incomprehensible cloths and materials at drapers
    - 152: 'For a time Latin was for me, as for Hardy's Jude the Obscure, the symbol of mental emancipation. I tried to go on with Latin; ..'
    - 152: 'It became evident to those who were set in authority over me that I was an inattentive and unwilling worker. This mattered most immediately to Casebow the head of the Manchester [2007 note: cotton goods are still called 'Manchester' in Australian department stores] department, and the "improver" and senior apprentice, who were between him and myself. .. Over him [Casebow] and me ruled the shop walker, Mr John Key, a stately and quasi-military figure with a good profile and a cherished moustache..'

[EARLY ADOLESCENCE §2 THE Y.M.C.A., THE FREETHINKER; A PREACHER AND THE READING ROOM]
    - 163-5: '.. Portsmouth Roman Catholic cathedral. .. a revivalist mission.. Our Saviour's sacrifice and the horror and torment of hell from which he had saved the elect. .. He spared us nothing of hell's dreadfulness. All the pain and anguish .. every suffering we had ever experienced.. was nothing as to the black unending despair of hell. .. For a little while his accomplished volubility carried me with him and then my mind broke into amazement and contempt. ..
I looked at the intent faces about me, .. Did this actor believe a word of the preposterous monstrosities he was pouring out? ..
.. my eyes and thoughts went, with all the amazement of new discovery, about the crowded building.. which had been made to house this spouting fount of horrible nonsense. A real fear of Christianity assailed me. It was not a joke; it was nothing funny as the Freethinker pretended. It was something immensely formidable. It was a tremendous human fact. We.. were spread over the floor, not one of us daring to cry out against this fellow's threats. ..
.. I perceived myself in the presence of a different, if parallel attack upon my integrity, the Catholic Church,... I realized as if for the first time the menace of these queer shaven men in lace and petticoats who had been intoning, responding and going through ritual gestures at me. .. They were thrusting an incredible and ugly lie upon the world..'
    - 166: Portsmouth Cathedral newly built
    - 167: 'I had made a rule for myself which I kept for several years never to read a work of fiction or play a game. .. I was greedy to learn, I had the merest scraps of time to learn in, and I knew the seduction of a god story and the disturbance of a game of skill.' [He read 'one of those compilations for the mentally hungry' of the 19th century, perhaps by Chambers, with 'long summaries of the views of various philosophical schools and of the physical and biological sciences..']
    - 169,70: reproduced letter by Wells about 17 to his ma. He writes 'clafs' with a long s, and g with a tail, like the long version of z. He explains she'd have to pay £35 for him for a year while he learned to teach.

[EARLY ADOLESCENCE §3 FIFTH START IN LIFE, MIDHURST (1883-84)]
    - 176: Mrs Huxley's lines on her husband's tomb & Wells mum progressively disliking fuss of reincarnation

[EARLY ADOLESCENCE §4 FIRST GLIMPSES OF PLATO - AND HENRY GEORGE]
    - 177: '.. Just as it had dawned upon me with an effect of profound discovery that the Roman Catholic cathedral at Portsmouth need not be there, so now it was to become apparent that Up Park need not be there, that the shops in the Midhurst Street need not be there, nor the farmers and labourers on the countryside. ...'
.. I have already said that I cannot clearly remember when it was that I read Plato's Republic. .. by itself in a single green bound volume, happily free from Introduction or Analysis. I must have puzzled over it and skipped and gone to and fro in it, before its tremendous significance came through. A certain intellectual snobbishness in me may have helped me to persevere. And associated with it, because of its fermenting influence upon my mind, is a book of very different calibre, a sixpenny paper-covered edition of Henry George's Progress and Poverty.. [Shaw was influenced greatly by H George; and Russell mentioned him - half forgotten or similar phrase - in his Autobiography]
..
Plato in particular, as I got to the mighty intention behind his (to me) sometimes very tedious and occasionally incomprehensible characters, was like the hand of a strong brother taking hold of me and raising me up, to lead me out of a prison of social acceptance and submission. I do not know why Christianity and the old social order permitted the name of Plato to carry an intellectual prestige to my mind far above that of Saint Paul or Moses. Why has there been no detraction? I suppose because the Faithful have never yet been able to escape from a certain lurking self-criticism, and because in every age there have been minds more responsive to the transparent honesty and greatness of Plato and Aristotle than to the tangled dogmatism of the Fathers. But here was a man.. etc.. All my thoughts leapt up now in open affirmation to the novel ideas..
Chief of these was the conception of a society in which economic individualism was overruled entirely in the common interest. This was my first encounter with the Communist idea. I had accepted property as in the very nature of things, just as my mother had accepted Monarchy and the Church. .. hitherto I had not resented the way in which the Owner barred my way here, forbad me to use this or enjoy that. Now.. I could ask "By what right..".. etc'
    - 179ff: [He discovers Marx later, when he came to London; and didn't like the 'Class War' and snobbish hatred of the bourgeoisie and resentment and destruction.]
    - 186-7: 'One glaring omission from my outlook.. will be evident at once to the post-war reader. .. Flags and soldiers, battleships and big guns..
.. I was also blankly unaware of the way in which the monetary organization of the world reflected its general economic injustices and ineptitudes. But then I had never yet seen ten sovereigns together of my own in my life, never touched any paper money except a five pound note, nor encountered a cheque. (Bank of England notes were dealt with very solemnly in those days; the water-mark was scrutinized carefully and the payer, after a suspicious penetrating look or so was generally asked to write his name and address on the instrument.) [David Irving told me the same thing - I think referring to a surprisingly late date] ..'

[EARLY ADOLESCENCE §5 QUESTIONS OF CONSCIENCE]
    - 188-9: [Statutes of the Grammar School required every member of the teaching staff had to be a communicant.] '.. I walked up the aisle [sic] and knelt. .. consumed a small cube representing my Redeemer's flesh and had a lick of sweetish wine from the chalice which I was assured contained his blood. I was reminded of a crumb of Trifle. .. after that I made an end to Theophagy. ..'
    - 191 Midhurst pre-Reformation congregation and Wilderspin, in sweated trade of Catholic priest

[EARLY ADOLESCENCE §6 WALKS WITH MY FATHER]
    - 192-195: [Description of his father's lively mind, reading, keeping on going to the end, & his knowledge of wild life (and the properties of willow suited for cricket bats) which H G Wells felt made his own accumulations seem thin and bookish.]
    - 195ff: [Description of family temperament: dislike of keeping hold and accumulating, of competitive acquisitiveness; of "Clever Alec" in 'The Work, Wealth..'. He thinks his type will win, over the 'rats'. 'But for thousands of generations yet..']
    - 197: [Note: influence of media:] Washington Irving's Bracebridge Hall influences Fred Wells
    - 197-8: [Death of his mother in 1905, father in 1910]

[SCIENCE STUDENT IN LONDON §1 PROFESSOR HUXLEY AND THE SCIENCE OF BIOLOGY (1884-85)]

[SCIENCE STUDENT IN LONDON §2 PROFESSOR GUTHRIE AND THE SCIENCE OF PHYSICS (1885-86)]
    - Guthrie was Professor of Physics
    - 211: C V Boys, already famous, lecturing on thermodynamics; inaudible etc
    - 219: paradoxical riddles in physics..
    - 223: unique, classification fallacy, simplification, stuff chewed over in 'First and Last Things', was 'in 1891 an anticipation of what physicists now call "statistical causation".
    - 226 Work Wealth.. section summarizes his views of human mind to physical reality

[SCIENCE STUDENT IN LONDON §3 PROFESSOR JUDD AND THE SCIENCE OF GEOLOGY] (1886-87)]
    - 227-231: [Note: geology:] Prof Judd teaches geology at School of Mines/ Imperial College; Wells explains why it was boring [there was no overview, no follow-up of trains of thought, no asking of what caused things], comparing it to learning the names of streets, houses and residents with characteristic articles of furniture, all to be learnt and recorded in Judd's style. Wells' failure marked the end of his science ambitions - see C P Snow on this.
    - 231ff: Imperial College had no professor of education or philosophy of education

[SCIENCE STUDENT IN LONDON §4 DIVAGATIONS OF A DISCONTENTED STUDENT (1884-87)]
    - 235-6, 249-250: Debating Society including Christ as 'itinerant preacher', Bible a 'most respectable compilation' (he was carried out, like Bradlaugh and Irish MPS), and common man's socialism of that period.
    - 241: Discovers Carlyle's 'French Revolution' and William Blake

[SCIENCE STUDENT IN LONDON §5 SOCIALISM (WITHOUT A COMPETENT RECEIVER) AND WORLD CHANGE]
SOCIALISM:
245: 'Men asked fiercely why should things always be thus and thus when as a matter of fact they had only just become thus and were bound to alter in any case. ..'
251: '.. Socialism was essentially a pre-scientific product..'
253: [Comparison with aeroplane with no controlling mechanism; what a pity not to get it off the ground. 'So they equipped it with the reins from the old gig.']

[SCIENCE STUDENT IN LONDON §6 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDENT'S LIFE (1884-87)]
    - 274-6: [Note: London, buildings: Interesting description of c 1820s, post-Napoleonic expansion before railways, with a system of 99-year building leases for ground landlords & spewing of 'extremely unsuitable building all over London', described by Wells, with no bathrooms, assumption of cheap servants, steep stairs etc, 'the London house', speculative & more or less jerry built and unavoidable. 276 says New York was as bad, St Petersburg far worse.
277-8 describes in such a house where he went, grime, slaveys, conversation, lodgers including a student, a German woman, and ... [2007 note: 'You Can't Be Too Careful' describes just such a shared household]
279 Note: C of E: a clergyman who died penniless 'On the top floor was a poor old clergyman and his wife, who presently died one after the other.. He had either never had a vicarage or he had lost one, and he earned a precarious income by going off to churches for a week-end or a week or so on "supply,".. I .. Until, one wintry week-end, some careless person sent an open dog-cart to meet him at the railway station and gave him pneumonia. .. he died intestate and practically penniless, and I escorted my aunt one wet and windy morning to Highgate cemetery where we were the only mourners at his funeral... I had never dreamt that a clergyman could end so shabbily, or that the Establishment could discard its poor priests so heartlessly. It was quite a new light on the Church. ..']

[SCIENCE STUDENT IN LONDON §7 HEART'S DESIRE]
    -284-5: Account of top hats. 'The history.. has yet to be written.'
    -286: Sad account of his cousin, made book-shy by 'a simple English education'

[STRUGGLE FOR A LIVING §1 SIXTH START IN LIFE OR THEREABOUTS (1887)]

[STRUGGLE FOR A LIVING §2 BLOOD IN THE SPUTUM (1887)]

    - 299: 'Consumption' = tuberculosis 'particularly suitable for the purposes of sentimental fiction.'
    - 303: Another period of recovery; this time nearly four months at Up Park, which his biographer Geoffrey West knew more of than HG could remember. (This is near Telegraph House - I'm uncertain if it's the one in Russell's Autobiography, as the telegraph system must have had numerous stages).
    - 306: Nearly three months at the Burtons', mear Wedgwood's pot-bank [sic] at Etruria.
    - 307-9: Wells rather hard on his very youthful writing style.

[STRUGGLE FOR A LIVING §3 SECOND ATTACK ON LONDON (1888)]
    - 312-3: Interesting account of eating in coffee houses, little individual shops, chop houses, tea shops, public houses..
    - 313: Wells worked in the British Museum Reading Room, under the dome. As it then was.

[STRUGGLE FOR A LIVING §4 HENLEY HOUSE SCHOOL (1889-90)]
    - 319-320: Amusing account of Wells' decision to teach not by experiments, but by drawings in coloured chalks on a board; 'My boys .. acquired a real grasp of scientific principles and scientific quantities..'
    - 322: [Note: decline of empire, English private school education and:] 'I suppose the day is not so very remote when the last of these private schools will have vanished from the earth. Fifty years ago they were still responsible for the education, or want of education, of a considerable fraction of the British middle-class. Anyone might own one, anyone might teach in one, no standard of attainment was required of them; the parents dipped their sons into them as they thought proper and took them out when they thought they were done. Certain university and quasi-public bodies conducted examinations.. For the most part these private schools passed the middle-class youth of England on to business or professional life incapable of any foreign language, incapable indeed of writing or speaking their own language.., unable to use their eyes and hands to draw or handle apparatus, grossly ignorant of physical science, history or economics..
It is only when the nature of the English private school education is grasped that it becomes possible to understand why the enormous possibilities of world predominance and world control, manifest in the British political expansion during the nineteenth century, wilted away so rapidly under the stresses of the subsequent years. Its direction was dull, ignorant, pretentious and blundering.'
    - 328-329: 'Neither Newnes nor Harmsworth, when they launched these ventures [Tit Bits and Answers] had the slightest idea of the scale of the new forces they were tapping. .. They did not so much climb to success; they were rather caught by success and blown sky high. I will not even summarize the headlong uprush of Alfred C Harmsworth and his brother Harold; how presently they had acquired the Evening News, started the Daily Mail, and gone from strength to strength until Alfred sat on the highest throne in British journalism, The Times, and Harold was one of the richest men in the world.
.. Comic Cuts.. for the coppers of the new public, with an entire disregard of good taste, good value, educational influence, social consequences or political responsibility. .. millions of printed sheets of any trash that sold, into the awakening mind of the British masses. ... Henley House Magazine (May 1890)..
.. In twenty years these two young ruffians (ruffians so far as any sense of social obligations goes), these creators of Comic Cuts, had been flung up to the working ownership of The Times, and peerages; they had become immense factors in the chaos of English affairs, .. they had carried their bunch of brothers to positions of importance and opulence in our social disorder.

[STRUGGLE FOR A LIVING §5 THE UNIVERSITY CORRESPONDENCE COLLEGE (1890-93)]
    - 340 ff: [Good long account of Briggs, and his method for answering exam questions; nice description of attitude of mind, diplomas, letters after names, his forty employees who subdivided text books and tested ?children with specimen papers]

[STRUGGLE FOR A LIVING §6 COLLAPSE INTO LITERARY JOURNALISM (1893-94)]
    - 371-2: [Note: journalism:] '.. the true path to successful free-lance journalism. I found the hidden secret in a book by J M Barrie, called When a Man's Single. Let me quote the precious words.. [recounts a story about trivial things made journalistically acceptable] .. For years I had been seeking rare and precious topics. Rediscovery of the Unique! Universe Rigid! .. All the time I had been shooting over the target. All I had to do was lower my aim - and hit. ..' [Then follows a list of things like not carrying out a promise to move a cheese, a straw on a windowsill, people on a beach]

[STRUGGLE FOR A LIVING §7 EXHIBITS IN EVIDENCE]
    - 382-3: Sketch and letter of Wells on 26 birthday writing on a sloping board
    - 384: mentions ice and opium pills as part of treatment for (I think) violent indigestion [is this a precursor of kaolin and morphine?]
    - 394: Part II of Wells's Biology 'slashed up most cruelly in this week's Nature in a review.'
    - 395: Letter to Wells' ma re separation from Isabel (she at Hampstead) and HG looking over a microscope factory and being made a reviewer for the Pall Mall Gazette.
    - 400 ish: [Last part of volume 1 deals with the dissolution of his family ties; he detects traces of regret and discreet mourning; the exhibits are reproduced letters with his 'pichsuas'. Nobody seemed to send picshuas to him.]
    - 401-2: Jameson raid, & music hall anti-German songs, in a letter to one of his brothers

[DISSECTION §1 COMPOUND FUGUE]

[DISSECTION §2 PRIMARY FIXATION]

[DISSECTION §3 MODUS VIVENDI]
- 435-482: [SEX, FREE LOVE, NEO-MALTHUSIANISM: somewhere Wells says he put a lot of intellectual energy into the problem of men & women for quite a long period - something I'd not realised, though his book titles I suppose reveal this. He also read Lang & Atkinson (see below) who seem to have functioned for him in the way Freud did for many, later, providing an explanation for some aspects of societal dynamics. This chapter also - though it took me careful reading to spot it - is about Jane's toleration of his fucking other women.]
    - 435-439: [He says he spoke out for "Free Love" , '.. going through phases roughly parallel with those through which Shelley had passed eighty years before. .. [Godwin in mentioned, too, earlier, on this theme.]
The spreading knowledge of birth-control.. Neo-Malthusianism.. Modern Utopia (1905)..
We dropped our disavowal of the Institution of Marriage, in 1895. The behaviour of the servants of that period and the landladies and next-door neighbours, forced that upon us anyhow. .. servants became impertinent and neighbours rude and strange. .. Were they really horrified when they "heard about it," or is there a disposition to hate and persecute awaiting release in every homely body? I believe that there has been a great increase in tolerance in the last forty years but in that period.. half our energy would have been frittered away..'
NB: 1906 'In the Days of the Comet'; Russell says Wells publicly denied supporting free love in that book, though he had, essentially because he was afraid his income might drop
NB: Vol 1 has his earlier view of Free Love, an attitude his dad also seemed to have - "a tall strong girl" he'd said.].
446: [Wells lives like an honest working-class couple, handing over his earnings to his "missus"..]
462-3: [Wells amusing on Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Edith Sitwell, Proust. *P]
464: Jane was 'extraordinarily dispassionate and logical.. clearheaded.. She suppressed any jealous impulse and gave me whatever freedom I desired. .. our alliance was indissoluble; .. The craving... for a complete loveliness of bodily response, was creeping up into my imagination.. This craving dominated the work of D H Lawrence altogether. [sic] .. My compromise with Jane developed after 1900. .. The French with their absurd logicality distinguish between the passade, a stroke of mutual attraction.. and a real love affair. ..'

[DISSECTION §4 WRITINGS ABOUT SEX]
470: '.. Ann Veronica (1909) in which the youthful heroine was allowed a frankness of desire and sexual enterprise, hitherto unknown in English popular fiction. That book created a scandal at the time, .. The particular offence was that Ann Veronica was a virgin who fell in love and showed it..' [He talks about a review by St Loe Strachey of the Spectator, on 'the muddy world of Mr Wells's imaginings', and who called her a 'whore'. Later they met and became good friends. Wells says most of his friends 'stood the proof', i.e. didn't send him to Coventry. 472 has account of seekers after obscenity & their extreme disillusionment]
472: [Similar conflict over New Machiavelli, which was first printed as a serial in English Review; rumours publishers wouldn't touch it etc. NB: there are also New Republic, New Utopia and a 1936 play The New Faust in Wells] '.. all the world away from overt eroticism. .. fresh variant upon the theme of Love and Mr Lewisham and the Sea Lady.' [Latter described as 'perhaps the loveliest of his fantasies' in Ramsey's review of Brome's Life]
475: '.. I was condemning a great system of suppressions and prohibitions as unreasonable; but at first I did not face up steadily to the fact that they were as natural as they were unreasonable. .. intense possessiveness, dominance, jealousy and hatred of irresponsible indulgence..
I set myself to examine the credentials of jealousy. I had read Lang and Atkinson's Human Origins.. and the book illuminated me very greatly. I realized the role played by the primitive taboos in disciplining and canalizing the dominant jealousy of the more powerful males so as to make possible the development of tribal societies. I saw the history of expanding human associations as essentially a successive subjugation of the patriarchal group to wider collective needs, by jealousy-regulating arrangements. .. civilization had been developing, by buying off or generalizing, socializing and legalizing jealousy and possessiveness, in sex as in property. ..'
..
.. The topic of jealousy dominated In the Days of the Comet .. Jealousy is also the dominant trouble in the Passionate Friends .. and The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman ..'
478-480: [1906 Article on socialism and the middle classes; various mis-statements by Tories, including wives in common idea, distorting 'Free Love' idea, which Wells didn't defend properly; he spluttered, and denied, but didn't calmly reiterate.]
481: [Socialist or rather 'passage of quite Fabian understatement' view of marriage, published in New Worlds for Old]

[DISSECTION §5 DIGRESSION ABOUT NOVELS]
491-2: [Extraordinary, long & winding letter from Henry James to Wells, about 'Marriage'. 493 has a character in an 1892 book 'markedly like Henry'.]
Consideration of 'character-interest' as opposed to 'adjustment-interest' in novels; he thinks that 'characters' were supremely important in the [English?] fiction of 19th and early 20th centuries, and 'competent critics' [not named!] have examined this. Scott was the author with 'the predominance of individuation' but thinks that's only because Scott was 'intensely conservative' and accepted all the standard social values; 'His lawless, romantic past was the picturesque prelude to stability; .. Throughout the broad smooth flow of 19th century life in Great Britain, the art of fiction floated on this same assumption of social fixity. The Novel in English was produced in an atmosphere of security for the entertainment of secure people who liked to feel established and safe for good. .. the criticism of it began to be.. perplexed when.. the splintering frame began to get into the picture.
495: .. in 1912 I made a sort of pronouncement against the "character" obsession.. political questions and religious questions and social questions. ... business and finance and politics and precedence and pretentiousness and decorum and indecorum..'
496: '.. "Novel with a Purpose".. examined no essential ideas.. it merely assailed some particular evil.. The majority of Dickens novels were novels with a purpose, but they never deal with any inner confusion, any conflicts of opinion within the individual characters, any subjective essential change.' [Note: perhaps behaviorism was a reflection of novels - science copying art? And cf Orwell on Charles Reade, in his Essay on Dickens, 1939]
498 etc: [He looks at some of his writings of the time; mostly I've put such notes with the actual titles]

[FAIRLY LAUNCHED AT LAST §1 DUOLOGUE IN LODGINGS (1894-05)]
506: 'The last decade of the 19th century was an extraordinarily favourable time for new writers.. Quite a lot of us from nowhere were "getting on." The predominance of Dickens and Thackeray and the successors and imitators they had inspired was passing. In a way they had exhausted the soil.. just as Lord Tennyson (who died as late as 1892), .. had extracted every poetical possibility from the contemporary prosperous bourgeoisie. For a generation the prestige of the great Victorians remained like the shadow of vast trees.. but now.. [*P] every weed and sapling had its chance, provided only that it was of a different species.. When woods are burnt, it is a different tree which reconstitutes the forest. [NB: Brontës 1848, Thackeray 1859, Dickens 1865, Trollope 1873, Ward 1888, Hardy 1890s are approximate dates of last popular books] The habit of reading was spreading to new classes .. They did not understand and enjoy the conventions and phrases of Trollope or Jane Austen, or the genteel satire of Thackeray, they were outside the "governing class" of Mrs Humphry Ward's imagination, the sombre passions and inhibitions of the Brontë country or of Wessex or Devonshire had never stirred them, and even the humours of Dickens no longer fitted into their experiences. ..
.. Literary criticism .. was still either scholarly or with scholarly pretensions. It was dominated by the mediaeval assumption that whatever is worth knowing is already known and whatever is worth doing has already been done. ...'
522: '.. England in my time has been very liable to adventurous outsiders; Bottomley and Birkenhead, Ramsay MacDonald and Loewenstein, Shaw and Zaharoff, Maundy Gregory and me - a host of others; .. Only the Court, the army and navy, banking and the civil service have been secure against this invasion. Such men are inevitable in a period of obsolete educational ideas and decaying social traditions. .. Harris was .. a superlative example..
.. supposed to be either a Welsh Jew or a Spanish Irishman; .. sort of "mega-celtic" flavour.. Legend has it that he went to Chapman, the proprietor of the Fortnightly Review, and told him his paper was dull because he did not know enough prominent people, and then to one or two outstanding people and pointed out the value of publicity in this democratic age..
.. He married a wealthy widow.. all sorts of prominent and interesting people went to the dinner parties at Park Lane. But he could not stay the course. His sexual vanity was overpowering, he not only became a discursive amorist but he talked about it, and there ensued an estrangement and separation from his wife and her income and Park Lane. ..'
[Hugh Kingsmill mentioned here a few times. Journals mentioned include Evening News, Fortnightly Review, Saturday Review, Hearth and Home, Candid Friend, Vanity Fair, Modern Society, Pearson's Magazine in America.]
.. '.. He had been boasting too much in Paris about his German sympathies and his influence with the Indian princes, and the French who are a logical people and take things far too seriously, made themselves disagreeable and inquisitive. They are quite capable of shooting a man on his own confession. .. He fled to England..' [527 account of letters from royalty which Harris stole from Lady Warwick; 528 Life of Shaw, which Shaw helped him with; 529 Life and Loves, 'redoubtable.. suppressed.. four volumes.. must certainly be tumultuous and unveracious.']

[FAIRLY LAUNCHED AT LAST §2 LYNTON, STATION ROAD, WOKING (1895)]
    - 546-551: [GRANT ALLEN: Wells owes him an intellectual debt which he makes fair acknowledgement of, here. 'Better thirty-five years late than never.' He had been a science teacher in the West Indies.. [*P] new wine of aggressive Darwinism.. semi-popular works such as Origin of the Idea of God (1897) and Physiological Aesthetics (1877) were.. old and sketchy, unsupported.. too original.. regardless or manifestly ignorant of much other contemporary work. .. what was good.. has long since been appropriated, generally without acknowledgement..'
    - 552: [Writers at Hindhead, near the Devil's Punch Bowl:] '.. Haslemere Station.. in those days a lonely place in a great black, purple, and golden wilderness of heath.. a score of partly hidden houses.. Conan Doyle.. Richard le Gallienne..
When history is properly written, it will be interesting to trace the Amorist through the ages. There have been phases when the Amorist has dominated manners and costume and decoration and phases when he has been rather shame-faced and occasional in the twilight and the bushes and the staircase to the ballroom. The Amorist just then was in the ascendant phase..'

[FAIRLY LAUNCHED AT LAST §3 HEATHERLEA, WORCESTER PARK (1896-97)]
    - 567-581: [GEORGE GISSING. See also \gissing for more.]
567: '.. 1898. .. brighter ideas about diet and wine. .. The uneasy social life of 19th C Europe was in a phase of inflammation. In Naples people were rioting for "Pane e Lavoro!" and in the squares outside our hotel in Brussels there was a demonstration..
George Gissing was a strange tragic figure..' [Goes on to discuss his sex life: encounter when young with a prostitute, later marriage to a servant girl he proposed to on the same day as he met, and bigamous relation with a French woman who wanted to translate his books]
569: '.. he felt that to make love to any woman he could regard as a social equal would be too elaborate, restrained and tedious for his urgencies, he could not answer questions he supposed he would be asked about his health and means..'
570: 'The insanity of our educational system had planted down in that Yorkshire town, a grammar school dominated by the idea of classical scholarship. .. Gissing's imagination.. escaped from the cramping gentilities and respectability of home to find its compensations in the [*P] rhetorical swagger, the rotundities and the pompous grossness of Rome. He walked about Wakefield in love with goddesses and nymphs and excited by ideas of patrician freedoms in a world of untouchable women. Classics men according to their natures are either "Latins" or "Hellenes." Gissing was a Latin, oratorical and not scientific, unanalytical, unsubtle and secretly haughty. He accepted and identified himself with all the pretensions of Rome's classical arches.
His knowledge of classical Rome was extraordinarily full. We found him.. an unsparing enthusiastic guide. ... At the back of his mind, a splendid Olympus to our Roman excursions, stood noble senators in togas, marvellous matrons like Lucrece, gladiators proud to die, Horatiuses ready to leap into gulfs pro patria, the finest fruit of humanity, unjudged, accepted, speaking like epitaphs and epics..'
571: '.. he knew the Greek epics and plays to the level of frequent quotation.. he thought that a classical scholar need only turn over a few books to master all that scientific work and modern philosophy.. He was entirely enclosed in a defensive phraseology.. "scorn" of the "baser" orders and "ignoble" types... Swinnerton's book [biography].. real admiration.. gradually being estranged by the injustice, the faint cruelty.. towards disadvantaged people..'
572-3: 'Through Gissing I was confirmed in my suspicion that this orthodox classical training which was once so powerful an antiseptic against Egyptian dogma and natural superstition, is now no longer a city of refuge from barbaric predispositions. [*P] It has become a vast collection of monumental masonry, a pale cemetery in a twilight..'
.. It was Rome before the mischiefs of Mayor Nathan, before the vast vulgarity of the Vittorio Emmanuele monument had ruined the Piazza Venezia, and when the only main thoroughfare was the Corso. The Etruscan tombs still slept undiscovered in the Forum and instead of Boni's flower beds there were weeds and wild flowers. ..
Gissing, like Gibbon, regarded Christianity as a deplorable disaster for the proud gentilities of classicism and left us to "do" the Vatican and St Peter's by ourselves. In many of the darkened, incense-saturated churches, I felt old Egypt and its mysteries still living and muttering, but the papal city and its swarming pilgrims, its libraries and galleries, its observatory, its Renascence architecture, filled me with perplexing impressions. ..
Here, quite plainly, was a great mental system engaged in a vital effort to comprehend its expanding universe..
...
It dawned upon me that there had been a Catholic Reformation.. perhaps profounder than the Protestant Reformation.. struggling.. in the grip of adaptive necessity. .. I found something congenial in the far-flung cosmopolitanism.. half-hearted .. Open Conspiracy.. If the papal system had achieved the ambitions of its most vigorous period, it would have been much more in the nature of a competent receiver for human affairs, ..' [Cp this rather feeble journalistic crap with Crux Ansata and other later writings, based I think on McCabe, which show how hard it is to make an objective & quantitative judgement about the impact of an organisation].
579: '.. That disposition to get away from entangling conditions which is manifest in almost every type of imaginative worker, accumulated in his case to quite desperate fugitive drives. In Italy with us he was in flight from his second wife. .. scenes and screams.. letters would arrive at the Hotel Aliberti in Rome, that left Gissing white and shaking.. The best thing then was to go off with him outside Rome to some wayside albergo, to the Milvian bridge, or towards Tivoli or along the Appian Way, drink rough red wine, get him talking Italian to peasants, ... etc'
580: 'He had passed over altogether into that fantastic pseudo-Roman world of which Wakefield Grammar School had laid the foundations.
"What are these magnificent beings! .. Who are these magnificent beings advancing upon us? .. What is all this splendour? What does it portend?" He babbled in Latin; he chanted fragments of Gregorian music. All the accumulation of material that he had made for Veranilda [he'd read Cassiodorus for this never-to-be-finished novel] and more also, was hurrying faster and brighter across the mirrors of his brain before the lights went out for ever.'

[FAIRLY LAUNCHED AT LAST §4 NEW ROMNEY AND SANDGATE (1898)]
    - 592: ['Picshuas': one has Jane disliking cows, 'kind fragrant animals' - Wells seems not to have regarded himself as town bred; and air gun shooting; and 'exile from London.. [Note: health:] dry air with no damp in the subsoil']
    - 596: [Henry James & Edmund Gosse; and J M Barrie come to visit: latter says when he first came to London, he didn't understand 'the nature of a cheque'. He just put them in a drawer and waited for the real money to be sent. He also [cp. e.g. Richard Nixon] lived almost entirely on buns.]

[FAIRLY LAUNCHED AT LAST §5 EDIFYING ENCOUNTERS: SOME TYPES OF PERSONA AND TEMPERAMENTAL ATTITUDE (1897-1910)]
    - 598 ff: [The Fabians, notably WALLAS:] the Wallases, the Oliviers, and the Webbs. Shaw 'I refuse to count as a typical Fabian'. '.. they lived lives devoted to the Res Publica right out to the end of their days. ... walks with Wallas.. Switzerland .. for a couple of weeks.. the LSE will testify how much the personal Graham Wallas outdid the published Graham Wallas. Alfred Zimmern and Walter Lippmann were among his particular pupils.. he had been greatly impressed by the book of Professor Ostrogorski on Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties (1902). .. frank treatment..'
603-609 or so: [Hubert Bland and E Nesbit, with Bland's household of illegitimate children etc. Cp Eric Gill. Wells talks above of 'Amorists' including Frank Harris.]
603: 'Before it had existed half a dozen years, the Fabian Society was in urgent need of a searching psycho-analysis, and there has never yet been a government or a party, an educational directorate, or a religion that has not presently diverged into morasses of complication and self-contradictions. How far is that to be the case with us for ever? ..'
    - 611: [Bob Stevenson - R L Stevenson - of 'some marvellous talks; a dissertation upon how he would behave if he was left nearly two millions, still lingers in my mind. .. I have tried to give a faint impression of his style of imaginative talking in Ewart's talk about the City of Women in Tono Bungay. But..']
    - 619: [Education and psychological types:] 'Now here.. is something rather fundamental. .. I have told in my account of my schooldays how I differed from my schoolmate Sidney Bowkett, in that he felt and heard and saw so much more vividly, so much more emotionally, than I did. That gave him superiorities in many directions, but the very coldness and flatness of my perceptions, gave me a readier apprehension of relationship, put me ahead of him in mathematics and drawing.. and made it easier for me later on to grasp general ideas in biology and physics. .. I was easy to educate. [Note: anything to do with 'introvert' and 'extravert'?]
The vivid writers I was now beginning to encounter were, on the contrary, hard to educate. .. Their abundant, luminous impressions were vastly more difficult than mine to subdue to a disciplined and co-ordinated relationship than mine. They remained therefore abundant but uneducated brains. Instead of being based on a central philosophy, they started off at a dozen points; ..'
    - 630: Wild suggestion to the brain specialist.. more vigorous innervation of the cortex.. meticulous brain and loose sweeping brain.. some more central ganglionic differences. [Note: model of brain as bureau:] Somewhere, [*P] sorting and critical operations are in progress, concepts and associations are called up and passed upon, links are made or rejected, and I doubt if these are cortical operations. The discussion of mind working is still in the stage of metaphor, and so I have to put it that this "bureau" of co-ordination and censorship is roomy, generous and easy-going in the Bennett type, and narrow, centralized, economical and exacting in my own. ...'
    - 621: [Says he saw himself as far as possible without pretences:] 'I found therefore something as ridiculous in Conrad's persona of a romantic adventurous un-mercenary intensely artistic European gentleman.. as I did in Hubert Bland's man-of-affairs costume and simple Catholic piety.'
    - 625-633: [Long description of Arnold Bennett, six months younger than Wells:]
'His world [*P] was as bright and hard surfaced as crockery - his persona was, as it were, a hard definite china figure' with a plan and a through ticket to success.
632: [Marries mother of his only child]
632-633: [Amusing description of attractive mannerisms which Bennett supposedly had]
633: 'I wish Frank Swinnerton .. would Boswellize a little about him.. Only Swinnerton could describe Bennett calling up the chef at the Savoy to announce the invention of a new dish, or describe him dressing a salad. ..'
    - 633ff: [JANE AND WELLS GET ON SOCIALLY:] '.. experiments with Canary Sack and the various vintages of Messrs. Gilbey available in Camden Town. .. The enlargement of our lives.. was very rapid indeed, but we found the amount of savoir-faire needed .. not nearly so great as we had supposed.
.. my glimpses of life below stairs at Up Park helped me to meet fresh social occasions.. A servant in a big household becomes either an abject snob or an extreme equalitarian. At Up Park there was a footman who kept a diary of the bad English and the "ignorance" he heard while he was waiting at table; .. choice items with the names and dates.. I never shared the belief, which peeps out through the novels of George Meredith, Henry James, Gissing and others, that "up there somewhere" there are Great Ladies, of a knowledge, understanding and refinement, passing the wit of common men. The better type off social climbers seek these Great Ladies as the Spaniards sought El Dorado. ..
.. healthy and easy-minded.. living less urgently and more abundantly than any of the other people we knew; with more sport, exercise, travel and leisure.. the women were never under any compulsion to wear an unbecoming garment.. But they had very little to show us or tell us. The last thing they wanted to do was to penetrate below the surface of things..
.. Desborough's.. Elcho's.. Balfour.. Cecils.. Sedgwicks.. Curzon,... Wyndham.. Raleigh.. Judge Holmes.. parties.. Balfour.. [had] the lazy man's habit of interrogative discussion. .. Sassoon.. Churchill.. Most of these week-end visits and dinner parties were as unbracing mentally, and as pleasant, as going to a flower show and seeing what space and care can do with favoured strains of some familiar species. Colefax.. Lucy..'

[FAIRLY LAUNCHED AT LAST §6 BUILDING A HOUSE (1899-1900)]

[THE IDEA OF A PLANNED WORLD §1 ANTICIPATIONS (1900) AND THE "NEW REPUBLIC"]
    - 646-653: [Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought which seems to have been a popular book; 'it sold like a novel'. Cp. e.g. 'Future Shock' and 'Megatrends' for US equivalents, so far as they go. 636 has him reading [*P] The Discovery of the Future at the Royal Institution in 1902, apparently the precursor. Wells states also that a few other futuristic things were essentially exaggerations of contemporary tendencies.] '.. a new thing in general thought. .. the first attempt to forecast the human future as a whole and to estimate the relative power of this and that great systems of influence [sic]. Partial forecasts and forebodings existed in abundance already; .. estimates.. of the length of time .. to exhaust.. coal, .. the prospects of population congestion.., the outlook.. as the solar system cooled..; but most.. could be dismissed quite easily by challenging the validity of the assumptions. A comprehensive attempt.. general resultant for the chief forces of social change.. sober forecasting.. was so much a novelty that my book.. excited quite a number of people. ...
.. I was [*P] writing the human prospectus.
.. If I belonged to the now rapidly-vanishing class of benevolent millionaires I would create professorships of Analytical History. Instead of.. clotted masses of undigested or ill-digested fact.. my professors would be human ecologists; .. My new men.. would be working out strands of biological, intellectual, economic consequences. .. they would be related to the older school of historians much as vegetable physiologists are related to the old plant-flattening, specimen-hunting, stamen-counting botanists. ..
.. The old history, barbarically copious and classically fruitless, is strongly entrenched.. For years yet, I am afraid, the young will still have to learn.. about Queen Elizabeth's doubtful virginity, memorize such legal documents as the Constitutions of Clarendon and the Bill of Rights and discuss those marvellous world policies invented for examination purposes by dons addicted to self-identification with Julius Caesar or Napoleon Bonaparte or Charles the Fifth or Disraeli or some other of the many exaggerated and inflammatory figures about which history has festered. But this material has no more value than the reading of detective stories..
.. I drew a hard distinction between the legal (past-regarding) and the creative (future-regarding) mind. I insisted that we overrated the darkness of the future, ..
An attack upon the assumption that history is made by "Great Men" is clearly implied in this view. .. [*P] I hold they were as much an outcome of systemic processes as are the pustules that break out through the skin of many growing young people. .. It is a spotty stage in the adolescence of mankind..
.. lecture printed in Nature (February 6th, 1902)..
.. begins with.. fundamental change in the scale of human relationships and.. enterprises brought about by increased facilities of communication. .. goes on to apply this.. to one after another of the fundamental human interests, to show how it affects the boundaries of political divisions, the scope and nature of collective organisations, working loyalties and educational necessities. .. too obvious a thing to be a discovery.. applied by Grant Allen in an unpretending essay on the distances between country towns. I never read anything more germinal in my life, unless.. Lang and Atkinson's Primal Law and Social Origins.. woke me up to the reciprocal relation between .. locomotion and community-size.. I was.. the first to apply this relationship comprehensively to historical analysis. .. [Note by RW: more important is the relation between dominant families and their locations. But far less obvious! See above on Balfour, Cecils, Sedgwick, ... ]
Anticipations begins with two papers on land-traction and the redistribution of population through the evolution of transport. Then follows an examination.. change of scale is destroying a long established social order.. two chapters on this.. .. and these lead on naturally to a [*P] "Life History of Democracy." .. not an organic phase of social organization but the political expression of a phase of social liquefaction. This chapter.. the chapter called "The Great Synthesis" and concluding chapter .. "Faith, Morals and Public Policy in the 20th C" are.. the most imperfect and the most interesting parts.. The forecasts of modern war, .. interplay of languages.. probability of defeat of Germany,.. Poland.. Ireland.. Russia.. 'I was quite out about Russia'
.. Everybody in 1900 was shirking the necessity for great political reconstructions..
.. I was .. already alive to the incompatibility of the great world-order fore-shadowed by scientific and industrial progress, with existing political and social structures. .. I regarded myself as a complete outsider.. I could attack electoral and parliamentary methods, the prestige of the universities and the ruling class, the monarchy and patriotism, ..
.. I take up the contemporary pretensions to democracy and state the widely unspoken thought of the late Victorians: "This will not work." .. I arrived ahead of anyone at the naked essential question, .. "What, then, will work?" ..
The first tentative answer .. something I called [*P] "The New Republic." .. "It will be none of our ostensible governments that will effect this great clearing up.."
After the fatalistic optimistic fashion of the time, you see, I assumed [it] .. would appear of its own accord.. This was liberalism - after the Tennysonian pattern. ..
.. I have already made a criticism of the Socialism of the opening century and told .. of my reactions to the assumptions and limitations of the Socialist movement. ..'

[THE IDEA OF A PLANNED WORLD §2 THE SAMURAI - IN UTOPIA AND IN THE FABIAN SOCIETY (1905-9)]

[THE IDEA OF A PLANNED WORLD §3 "PLANNING" IN THE DAILY MAIL (1912)]

[THE IDEA OF A PLANNED WORLD §4 THE GREAT WAR AND MY RESORT TO "GOD" (1914-16)]
    - 668-9: [Republicanism:] 'For some British readers there will be a shock.. I was walking from my flat in St James's Court to lunch and talk at the Reform Club. Upon the wall.. I saw a large bill; .. It was a Royal Proclamation. .. King George was addressing "my people". .. I had become so habituated to the liberal explanation of the monarchy as a picturesque and harmless vestigial structure, that this abrupt realization that the King was placing himself personally at the head of his people, was like a bomb bursting under my nose. ..'
    - 671-677: [RELIGIOUS PHASE or pseudo-religious phase during WW1; he discusses Mr Britling and these dead boys, who, apparently, Live!; he seems to make courage into God, and God 'the Captain of the World's Republic'; as a sort of substitute for 'King and Country'. William Archer wrote an 'effective' pamphlet, 'God and Mr Wells'.] '.. these God-needing people require.. the sense of a Father on whom they can have the most perfect reliance. .. the instinctive faith of "little children," that ultimately everything will be all right. They are frightened people..' On 677: '.. 1932.. I make the most explicit renunciation and apology for this phase of terminological disingenuousness. .. I wish.. that I had never fallen into it; it.. introduced a barren détour..'

[THE IDEA OF A PLANNED WORLD §5 WAR EXPERIENCES OF AN OUTSIDER]
    - 684-689: [Description of his waking dream, in a rainstorm, of Tommies struggling on planks and drowning in mud; he invents a telpherage system/ Meets Churchill/ Then an amusing and brilliant description of the military caste and their uniforms and voices (though unfortunately without examples, for instance of their 'almost inconceivably silly remarks'; cp. Ustinov on the Army in the Second World War)./ [Note: conflicts:] Brilliant description of the result of a century or so of army tradition, the men's appearances, and their instinct against 'us': '.. shambling loose formation.. Scotland and Lancashire and Cockney London.. bits of stick and iron-pipe and wire..'/ 'The history of the Great War, regarded as an intensifying clash between old forms and new forces, has yet to be written. And yet that is perhaps the most interesting aspect of all. .. this more novel struggle, a horizontal struggle,..'/ '.. the old order managed to keep in the saddle.. an All Fool's War. .. witless slaughter until discipline dissolved, first in Russia and then.. Germany..']
    - 689-90: [Armistice:] [Note: monarchy:] 'the monarchy.. unashamed amidst a blaze of uniforms.. to thank our dear old Anglican Trinity, Who had been, it seems, in control throughout, ..
Girls, children, women, schoolboys, .. thronged the streets.. glad.. quite uncritical already of either Army, Navy or Crown. There were a million of us dead, of course.. but after all we had won. .. A Grand Inquest.. would have been a more reasonable function, but how disagreeable that would have been!
.. pompous, swarming occasions.. through the press.. The happy complacency of survivorship shone in every face in that vast crowd. What personal regrets appeared were richly sentimental and easily tearful. "Poor dear Tommy! How he would have loved all this!"
..".. this.. is the reality of democracy; this is the proletariat of dear old Marx in being. This is the real people. This seething multitude of vague kindly uncritical brains is the stuff that old dogmatist counted upon for his dictatorship of the proletariat, to direct the novel and complex organisation of a better world!"
The thought suddenly made me laugh out loud..'
[There's a somewhat similar passage in 'Clissold' on people in the South of France all sanely doing small things; and with no large aims]

[THE IDEA OF A PLANNED WORLD §6 WORLD STATE AND LEAGUE OF NATIONS]
    - 702-704: [Statement of [*P] War Aims drafted by Wells and others]
    - 707: [Wells' opinion of President Wilson: not at all high]
    - 708-714: [Full text, says Wells, of his letter to Mr Bainbridge Colby, and through him to President Woodrow Wilson: '.. to set down on paper my views upon the part America might and should play in the war. ..']

[THE IDEA OF A PLANNED WORLD §7 WORLD EDUCATION]
    - 715: 'My awakening to the realities of the pseudo-settlement of 1919 was fairly rapid. .. indignant astonishment at the simulacrum of a Peace League that was being thrust upon Europe.
.. What looked like everyday common sense but was.. sheer imaginative destitution was all against me. I was.. in the position into which a man would have been put by [*P] Dr Johnson if he had talked to him of the possibility of electric lights and air liners. The fact that in the violent passage that would no doubt have ensued, he would have been right and the great Doctor altogether wrong, would not have prevented him from looking and feeling like an egregious fool. .. I think the first intelligent man to emerge from behind the wainscot .. was J M Keynes..
...
During the various discussions, committee meetings and conferences that occurred in the course of the consolidation of the earlier League of Nations organizations into the League of Nations Union, I had been very much impressed by the perpetually recurring mental divergences due to the fact that everyone seemed to have read a different piece of history or no history at all, and that consequently our ideas of the methods and possibilities of human association varied in the wildest manner. .. because I was not a "scholar" and had never been put under a pedant to study a "period" intensely and prematurely.. I had a much broader grasp of historical reality than most of my associates in this mixture of minds.. I proposed that our Research Committee should organize the writing and publication of a history of mankind... how inevitable.. was the growth of political, social and economic organizations into a world federation.
My idea was at first an outline of history beginning with an account of the Roman and Chinese empires at the Christian era, and coming up to contemporary conditions. It was to be a composite Gibbon, with eastern Asia included and brought up to date. But..'
... Wells explains how he examined his finances with his wife: his investments had been reduced in value by the war, so he planned [I suppose in 1919, aged about 53] for one year's mugging up, in addition to the notes he'd made for his own purposes. As a result he never regained his novel-reading public, he says. However, undeterred by his burning boats, he started, with 'The Encyclopedia Britannica at my elbow'; he 'persuaded Sir Ray Lankester, Sir Harry Johnston, Gilbert Murray, Mr Ernest Barker, Sir Denison Ross, Philip Guedalla and various other men of knowledge among my friends, to go over my typescript for me; ..'.
[2007 note: a Canadian professor claims Wells plagiarised his outline from Florence Deeks; I recall - my copy of this book having been sold or given away by Margaret - that the 'Outline' was first issued in parts, which may be relevant to this claim; see Wells's 1921 essay on this topic, too].
    - 719-720: 'The public response [to 'The Outline of History'] was unexpectedly vigorous, both in Britain and America. .. Over two million copies in English have been sold since 1919.. translated into most literary languages except Italian - it is proscribed in Italy.. The ordinary man had been stimulated by the war to a real curiosity about the human past; he wanted to be told the story of the planet and of the race, plainly and credibly, and since the "historians" would not or could not do it, he turned to my book. It was quite open to those worthy teachers to do the job.. but until they could manage to do that, people had either to remain in ignorance of this exciting subject, as one whole, or else go on reading me, or Van Loon, or some other such outsider who had not been sterilized by an excess of scholastic pretension.
Unhappily, though the professional teachers of history could not bar the reading public from access to the new history of all mankind.. they were much more successful in keeping it out of the schools. To this day, in school and syllabus, King and Country and Period still prevail and it is still just a matter of luck whether or no an intelligent boy or girl ever comes to the newer rendering of historical fact. Yet beginning history point blank with mediaeval England is as logical and sensible as it would be to begin chemistry with a study of cookery recipes or patent medicines.'
    - 721: [Wells dropped the word 'Outline' because Note: plagiarism:] 'a number of so-called "Outlines" of Art- of Literature- of Science - of this and that, had been put upon the market and widely advertized and distributed. .. they were miscellanies or articles by various hands [Wells disliked edited books; one of his motives for writing the Outline was his belief that historians were too cautious and jealous to attempt such a project] with hardly any common thread of interest..'
    - 722ff: 'The Science of Life', and 'The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind'. [Which he would have liked to have called 'Outline of Biology' and 'Outline of Social and Economic Science'.] In the latter 'I entangled my scheme with an inconvenient associate and it had to be disentangled.' 723 gives details; the book appeared in 1931 'and it has sold very well, but not at all on the scale of the Outline of History. .. On the whole considering the greater novelty of the design, I am quite as well satisfied with it as I am with its two companions.'] 'The exactest name for such a synthesis would be the Outline of Human Ecology. But I did not call it that because the word Ecology was not yet widely understood.
Hendrik Van Loon, I may note, has done three books which, in an entirely different manner, approach much the same popular conspectus as my own. They are called The Story of Mankind, The Liberation of Mankind, and The Home of Mankind; and if presently he does The Work of Mankind, he will have covered practically all my territory, outside The Science of Life, and with a very useful and desirable extension into the field of topographical geography. ..
723: '.. proper education should be presented as the three sides of the triangle.. Biology, History and Human Ecology. A child should begin with Natural History, a History of Inventions, Social Beginnings and Descriptive Geography, that should constitute its first world picture, and the treatment of these subjects should broaden..' [NB: I can't see any real reason for these views, which don't seem to follow from any theory & seem to omit many things.]
    - 724: [Russia and Communist Leaders; his impressions in 'Russia in the Shadows']
    - 725-727: SANDERSON OF OUNDLE, a Great Schoolmaster, 'at the practical end of the business in immediate contact with boys', who added 'the first Russian teacher .. in any English public school', and his 'House of Vision', empty and abandoned six months after his death. He died aged 65 delivering a lecture at University College, in 1922, which 'was to have opened new ground and he had made great preparations for it.'
727: '.. the New History movement' in America.
    - 728: [Compares his lot with Roger Bacon's:] 'Bacon in his cell scribbling away at those long dissertations of his about a new method of knowledge, which never even reached, much less influenced, the one sole reader, his friend the Pope.. Which nevertheless in the course of a few centuries came to the fullest fruition. I play at being such a man as he was..'

[THE IDEA OF A PLANNED WORLD §8 WORLD REVOLUTION]
    - 742-744: ['The World of William Clissold'. Passage is quoted of an intelligent industrialist with a sound scientific training contemplating the possibility of an Open Conspiracy. Wells was proud that this was before the New Deal.
746: 'The Open Conspiracy..' of 1929; then 'What Are We to Do with our Lives?' 1931 was a withdrawn, revised and republished version]
    - 751: '.. my egoism is far more apparent than real. There used to be a popular recitation in my young days telling how Bill Adams won the Battle of Waterloo. Except for a transitory appearance of the "Dook," the victory seemed all the work of Bill. Nevertheless the Battle of Waterloo was won by Bill Adams multiplied by some score thousands, ..'

[THE IDEA OF A PLANNED WORLD §9 CEREBRATION AT LARGE AND BRAINS IN KEY POSITIONS]
      Interesting material on the Coefficients (or perhaps Co-Efficients?), suggested, Wells writes, by Beatrice Webb, which met monthly between 1902 and 1908. Wells suggests to me that this was a Jewish group, like 'the Focus', keeping its eyes open for Jewish possibilities.
      Wells met Milner, Boer War imperialist, though the date limits were late for the actual war. But the gold and other interests must have been live issues. Wells lists (in his order) Sir Edward Grey, Haldane, Russell, Sidney Webb, Leo Maxse (in 1902 wanting war), Clinton Dawkins (ancestor of the present Clinton Richard Dawkins) 'who linked us to finance', Carlyon Bellairs of the Navy, Pember Reeves'a New Zealand progressive', W A S Hewins, L S Amery, H J Mackinder, Lord Robert Cecil, Michael Sadler, Henry Newbolt, J Birchenough of the financial side, Garvin of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Josiah Wedgewood 'the single taxer', John Hugh Smith, Col. Repington, F S Oliver, C F G Masterman, 'and others'.
      I list them all as some links might be revealed by computer searches. But from my viewpoint, there are obviously Jews in there, keeping secret, for example Amery, Maxse, the two financiers, and probably others.
      At the time, Belloc's views of Jews had not been openly published, though such events as the Dreyfus Affair must have appeared in the small presses. Wells and Belloc did not get on well, a minor tragedy as each could have helped the other. Belloc was relatively impoverished and envied Wells's book sales, and I'd guess that Victor Gollancz may have edited Wells, perhaps assuring him that 'anti-Semitism' might damage his sales.
      Wells must have died disappointed, and never pieced together the Jewish part in world history. I believe some of his papers were sold after his death—I once had an email from an American who bought some—and it's likely that a watchful eye was kept on his remains.


    - 776-780: [Long passage on Lenin, including things like the shape of his skull and comparison of his insecure restless character with Balfour's assured indolence]
    - 780-782: [F D Roosevelt; 785-791 more on him, and on US fantasy of small independent people, and the great shock and impact which Roosevelt and the New Deal must have had, judging by all the things following "But.." that Wells heard.
    - 782: [Mosley]

[THE IDEA OF A PLANNED WORLD §10 ENVOY]

FULL INDEX

ACKROYD, DR. W. R., 64
After Democracy, 693, 748
Alexander, Sir George, 536, 549
Allen, Grant, 193, 194, 476, 546 et seq., 650
America, present.day politics in, 785
Amery, Rt. Hon. L. S., 102, 501, 761, 764, 765
Angell, Sir Norman, 331
Ann Veronica, 470, 482, 498, 548, 638
Answers to Correspondents, 316, 327
Anticipations, 332, 475, 638, 643, 719, 731, 799
Archer, William, 672, 706
Arlen, Michael, 645
Arnold House, 594, 597
Astor, W. W., 372, 514, 517
Atlas House, Bromley, 60 et seq., 108, 193
Austen, Jane, 47, 506
Autocracy of Mr. Parham, The, 501
Aveling, Dr., 347

BACON, ROGER, 728
Bagnold, Enid, 602
Balfour, Francis, 772
Balfour, Lord, 507, 635, 704, 755, 763, 772 et seq., 797
Balzac, Honoré, 503
Baring, Maurice, 635
Barker, Ernest, 706, 715, 719
Barker, Granville, 541
Barrie, Sir J. M., 374, 509, 533
    visit to Wells, 454, 596
    When a Man's Single, 371
Barron, Oswald, 602
Baxter, Charles, 533
Beaverbrook, Lord, 697
Beerbohm, Max, 521
Bellairs, Carlyon, 761, 764
Belloc, Hilaire, 728, 823
Benham, Sarah, 43, 44, 57
Bennett, Arnold, 307, 410
    books of, 628
    correspondence with Wells, 625
    source of success of, 626
    personality of, 629
Benson, Mgr. R. H., 602
Bentham, Jeremy, 600
Berle, A. A., 785, 792
Besant, Mrs. Annie, in the socialist movement, 238, 248
Bierce, Ambrose, 612
Biology, Textbook of, 344, 351
Birchenough, J., 761
Birkenhead, Lord, 522
Blake, William, 241
Blanchamp, Mr., 357, 520
Bland, Hubert, 265, 601 et seq., 661
Bland, Mrs. Hubert, 601 et seq., 624
Bleak House, 47
Bomb, The (Harris), 525
Book of Catherine Wells, 1462, 727, 739, 746
Boon, 679
Bottomley, H., 522
Bottomley, J. H., 479
Bowkett, Sidney, 100, 105, 597, 614
Boys, Prof. C. V., 211
Bradlaugh, Charles, 236
Bradlaugh.Besant trial, 84
Brailsford, H. N., 695
Brett, G. P., 719
Briggs, Dr. William, 335 et seq., 340 et seq.
Brownlow, Earl of, 373
Bubnov, 819
Bullock, Miss, 49, 52, 109 et seq., 135
Bulpington of Blup, The, 499, 624, 679
Burney, Fanny, 47
Burton, William, 234, 250, 306
    as analytical chemist, 302
    declares himself a socialist, 238
    edits Science Schools Journal, 240
By the Ionian Sea (Gissing), 575
Byatt, Horace, 140 et seq., 156, 171 et seq., 172, 188, 339

CAMPBELL, MRS. PATRICK, 542
Candy, Arabella, 278, 279, 263, 288, 315
Card, The (Arnold Bennett), 628
Carlyle, Thomas, 99, 241
Caroline, Queen, 46
Casebow, Mr., 152
Cassell's Popular Educator, 168
Causation, Wells on, 222, 223
Cecil, Lord Robert, 761
Certain PersoN Matters, 374
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Joseph, 761, 763
Chambers' Encyclopedia, 168
Chapman, Mr., 523
Chesterton, Cecil, 602
Chesterton, G. K., 471, 538, 602
Choate, Ambassador, 786
Christian Socialism, 246
Christina Alberta's Father 477, 499, 624
Chronic Argonauts, The, 309, 339, 516, 643
Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston, 102, 635, 683, 685
Claremont, Mrs., 695
Clayton, Mrs., 523
Clodd, Edmund, 567
Clynes, Rt. Hon. J. R,, 745
Coefficients Club, 761
Colby, Bainbridge, 707, 708
Cole, Martin, 313
Colefax, Lady, 635
College of Preceptors, 87, 91, 334
Collins, Sir William J., 303, 303, 303, 356, 369
Comédie Humaine, 504
Comic Culs,_328, 329
Communist Socialism, 269
Cone, The, 309
Conrad, Joseph, 615 et seq., 625 et seq.
Contemporary Noel, The, 495
Cooper, Mr., 40, 41, 108

Cooper, Fenimore, 78
Courtney, W. L., editor of Fortnightly Review, 645
Covell Mr., 40
Cowap, Mr., 138
Crane, Cora: 612 et seq.
Crane, Stephen, 612 et seq., 620, 623
Crane, Walter, 238, 618
Crawford, O. G. S., 681
Crewe, Lady, 635
Crichton.Browne, Sir James, 636
Crowhurst, Mr., 115
Crown of Life (Gissing), 577
Crozier, Dr. Beattie, 721
Currie, Sir James 172
Curtis, Lionel, 706
Curzon, Lord, 532, 635, 771, 772
Cust, Harry, 33, 471, 474, 525, 772
    appoints Wells dramatic critic, 534
    edits Pall Mall Gazette, 373, 374, 512
Cyclic Delusion, The, 111

D'ABERNON, LORD, 532
Daily Mail, the, 328, 623
Dall, Mrs., 794
Darrow, Clarence, 786
Darwin, Charles, 202
Davies, A. M., 234, 150, 296
Davies, Morley, 511
Dawkins, Clinton, 761
Deeks Case, 724 [This was Florence Deeks, who sued him; see elsewhere]
de Lisle, Lord, 51, 53
Denbigh, Earl of, 701
Desborough, Lady, 635
Deschanel, 174
de Soveral, Marquis, 635
Dickens Charles, 47, 92, 506
Dickinson, G, Lowes, 694, 706
Dickinson, Lord, 699
Discovery of the Future, 636, 648
Dixie, Lady Florence, 124
Donald, Robert, 701
Downey, Archbishop 728, 823
Doyle, Sir A. Conan, 552
Dream, The, 499, 500
Dream of Armageddon, A, 645
Drummonds Natural Law in the Spiritual World, 162
Duke, John, 62

EDUCATION ACT OF 1871, 84, 93, 327, 507
Educational Times, 350, 353, 374
Einstein, Prof. Albert, 29, 221, 766
Eisenstein's film, October, 733
Elcho, Lady Mary, 471, 635, 772
Elements of Reconstruction, 761

Englishman Looks at the World, An, 657, 666
Euclid's Elements, 140. 154
Evans, Caradoc, I47
Evening News, the, 328
FABIAN SOCIETY 238, 247 et seq., 251 et seq., 661
    association with Labour Party, 255
    attitude towards education, 262
    mission of, 362
    New Heptarchy Scries of, 529
    Wells' efforts to reorganize, 660
    Wells resigns from, 661
Fabianism and the Empire, 260
Faults of the Fabian, The, 661
Fellowship of Progressive Societies, 71
Fetherstonhaugh, Lady
Fetherstonhaugh Miss, see Bullock Miss
Fetherstonhaugh, Sir Harry, 52, 137
Field, Mr., 160, 162
First Men in the Moon, The, 472
Fisher, Prof. Irving, 792
Five Year Plan in Russia, 264, 778 et seq., 800
Food of the Gods, 260, 654
Forde, Captain, 49
Forster, E. M., 694
Forsyte Saga, The (Galsworthy), 504
Foucault, Léon, 174
France, Anatole, 668
Freethinker, The, 162, 164, 184
French, Lord, 767
Freud, Sigmund, 301
Frewen, Morton, 612
Future in America, 789, 809

GALL, JANIE, 272, 273, 277
Galsworthy, John, 498, 809
Garvin, J. L., 761
Geology, Wells on, 226
George IV, King, 43, 46, 52
George, Henry, 168, 177, 179
Gertz, Elmer, 522
Gissing, George, 563, 634
    career and work of, 567 et seq.
    death of, 581
Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., 46, 78, 92
Glimpse, The (Arnold Bennett), 629
God and Mr. Wells (Archer), 672
God the Invisible King, 673, 674
Gorky, Maxim, 809 et seq.
Gosse, Edmund, 520, 596
Graham, Cunninghame, 521
Grahame, Kenneth, 557
Great Good Place, The, 21
Green, J. R., History of the English People, 99
Gregory, Maundy, 522
Gregory, Sir Richard, 236, 371
Grein, J. T., 521
Grey of Fallodon, Viscount, 706, 715, 761, 763, 768, 770, 772
Guedalla, Philip, 502, 707, 719
Guest, Haden, 661
Gulliver's Travels, 138
Guthrie, Professor, 210 et seq., 20, 227, 231

HAIG, EARL, 767
Haigh, E. V., 684
Haldane, Lord, 761, 763, 766 et seq.
Hamilton, Lady Emma, 52
Hamilton, Sir William, 52
Harding, President, 793
Hardy, Thomas, 152
Harmsworth, Alfred, 326
Harmsworth, Alfred C, see Northcliffe, Lord
Harmsworth, Geoffrey, 330
Harmsworth, Harold, see Rothermere, Lord
Harmsworth, Lester, 330
Harris, Frank, 214, 285, 513, 645
    career of, 522 et seq.
    takes over Saturday Review, 520
    Wells visits, 356
Harris, Mrs. Frank, 526, 527
Harris, usher, 171, 181, 190
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 305, 309
Headlam, Dr. J. W., see Morley, Sir, J. W. H.
Headlam, Stuart, in the socialist movement, 238
Healey, Elizabeth, 234, 291, 295, 305, 374, 444
Henley, W. E., 373, 513, 515, 531, 795
Henley House School, Kilburn, 317
Hewins, W. A. S., 761, 764, 765
Hick, Henry, 577, 584, 586
Hilton, John, 706
Hind, Lewis, 514, 515
History is One, 717
History of Mr. Polly, 499
Hitler, Adolf, 100, 102
Hobson, J. A., 694
Holmes, Judge, 635
Holt Academy, Wrexham, 292
Honours Physiography, 371
Hoover, President, 793
Horder, Lord, 347
Horrabin, J. F., 719
Horsnell, Horace, 602
House, Colonel, 708
Housman, Laurence, 602
Howes, Prof. G. B., 201
Hudson, H. K., 701
Hudson, W. H., 194
Hueffer, Ford Madox, 473, 615, 617, 622
Hueffer, Oliver Madox, 617
Human Origins, 476
Humboldt's Cosmos, 98, 173
Huxley, Mrs., 176
Huxley, Prof. Julian, 29, 351, 721
Huxley, Prof. T. H., 173, 201, 202, 209, 227, 228, 350
Hyde, Edwin, 147, 152
Hyndman, H. M., 249

Imperial COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 208, 231
    Debating Society of, 214, 234
Imperial Palace (Arnold Bennett), 628, 629
In the Days of the Comet, 477, 480, 500, 654
In the Fourth Year, 667, 694, 695
Invisible Man, The, 543, 561
Irving, Sir Henry, 114
Irving, Washington, Bracebridge Hall, 197

James, HENRY, 488 et seq., 503, 538, 596, 615, 634
    activities of, 30
    and expressionism, 611
    character of, 535
    novels of, 537
James, William, 493, 538
Jeans, Sir James, 42
    on causation, 224
Jefferies, Richard, 193
Jennings, A. V., 104, 214, 313. 347
Jepson, Edgar, 602
Jerome, J. K., 557
Joan and Peter, 492, 500, 503, 674, 679
Joffre, Marshal, 681
Johnston, Sir Harry, 172, 719
Jones, Mr., of Wrexham, 294 et seq., 322
Jones, Henry Arthur, 823
Jones, Sir Roderick, 701
Joynson.Hicks, Mr., 479
Judd, Professor, 227, 232, 232
Jude the Obscure, 152
Jung, definition of persona, 24

KEY, JOHN, 152 et seq.
Keynes, J. M., 716
King, Miss, 114, 119, 131
King, Sir William, 110, 111, 146
Kingsley, Charles, 249
Kingsmill, Ethel, 423
Kingsmill, Hugh, 521, 522, 523
Kipling, Rudyard, 508, 533, 626, 760
Kipps, 155, 472, 492, 499, 586, 638, 639
Kirk's Anatomy, 174
Kitchener, Lord, 767
Knott, Mrs., 74

Labour Ideal of Education, 737
Labour Party, association with socialism, 255
Lady Frankland's Companion, 306, 311
Land Ironclads 683
Landseer, Sir Edwin, 55
Lang, Andrew, 193, 547
Lankester, Sir Ray, 471, 719
Laval, M., 794
Lawrence, D. H., 464
Lawrence, T. E., 705
League of Nations, Wells on, 694 et seq.
Lee, Vernon, 493
Leeming, Lieut., 684, 685
Le Gallienne, Richard, 552
Le Hand, Miss, 794
Lenin, Nicolai, 94, 95
    comparison with Balfour, 776; with Stalin, 805
    reorganization of Communist Party, 264
Let Us Arise and End War, 668
Liberal World Organisation, 748
Life and Loves of Frank Harris, 529
Life of Bernard Sharp, (Harris), 528
Lindsay, Sir Ronald, 794
Lippmann, Walter, 599
Little Wars (Wells), 102
Litvinov, 351, 812
Lloyd George, Rt. Hon. David, 29, 333
Loewenstein, 522
Love and Mr. Lewisham, 171, 200, 410, 411, 458, 467, 473, 477, 557, 582, 586
Low, Barbara, 354
Low, David, 499, 502, 686
Low, Frances, 354
Low, Ivy,355
Low, Sir Maurice, 354
Low, Sir Sidney, 354, 557, 701, 759
Low, Walter, 350, 353, 355, 363, 512, 520
Lowson, J. M., 370
Lucy, Sir Henry, 635
Lyell, Sir Charles, 228
Lytton, Bulwer, 508

MACCOLL, D. S., 521
MacDonald, Rt. Hon. Ramsay, 21, 522, 745
Macguire, Mrs., 635
Mackinder, H. J., 761, 764
McLaren, Mrs. Christabel, 172
McTaggart, 635
Man of the Year Million, 514, 643
Mankind in the Making, 257, 262, 638, 649 654
Mansfield, Katherine, 462
Marburg, Theodore, 694, 695
Marriage, 489, 496, 498, 500
Martineau, Harriet, 786
Marx, Karl, 180, 247, 249
    and English Trade Unionism, 25'
    and problem of revolution, 731
    association of socialism and democracy, 254
    unimaginativeness of, 263
Mason, A. E. W., 613
Masterman, Rt. Hon. C. F. G., 102, 471, 762
Mater, André, 695
Maurice, F., 249
Maxse, Leo, 761, 764
Meanwhile, 478
Men Like Gods, 501
Meredith, Annie, 196
Meredith, George, 481, 634
Meynell, Alice, 514
Midhurst Grammar School, 140, 171, 342
Mill, John Stuart, 250
Milne, A. A., 324, 326, 500
Milne, J. V., 3I8 et seq., 829
Milner, Lord, 761, 762, 765
Mitchell, laboratory instructor, 216, 217
Mitchell, Sir Chalmers, 273, 521
Modern Utopia, 185, 260, 261, 332, 436, 469, 638, 649, 656, 731, 735
Moley, Raymond, 792
Mond, Mrs. Alfred, 636
Mond, Mrs. Emile, 636
Monkey Island, 113
Montagu, Rt. Hon. E. S., 347
Montague, C. E., 682
Montefiore, A. J., 327
Moore, Doris Langley, 60I, 604, 605
Moore, George, 617, 626
More, Sir Thomas, 246
More's Utopia, 180

Morley, Sir J. W. Headlam, 697, 70I, 704
Morley, Miss, 90
Morley, Mrs., 86, 90
Morley, Thomas 293
    Geoffrey West on, 92
    school of, 83, 85, 242
Morris, William, in the socialist movement, 238, 244, 247, 249, 265, 597
Morrison, Arthur, 532
Mosley, Sir Oswald, 649, 782
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island, 501
Mr. Britling Sees it Through, 492, 500, 503, 670
Munday, Mr., 40, 41, 108
Municipalisation by Provinces, 259
Murchison, Sir Roderick I., 228
Murphy, James, 221, 224
Murray, Prof. Gilbert, 706, 715, 719
Mussolini, Signor, 649
Myers, F. W. H., 635
Mysterious Universe, The (Jeans), 224

NASH, MR., 123
Neal, Elizabeth, 44, 49
Neal, George, 43, 44, 57
Neal, John, 43, 44
Neal, Sarah, see Wells, Mrs. Joseph, 43
Nelson, Lord, 52, 55
Neo.Malthusianism, 436, 475, 483
Nesbit, E., see Bland, Mrs. Hubert
New Machiavelli, 472, 473, 477, 482, 548, 638, 662, 736, 739, 773
New Statesman started. 260
New Vagabonds Club 557
New Worlds for Old, 481
Newbolt, Henry, 761
Nicholson, Sir Charles, 701
Northcliffe, Lord, 323, 663, 704
    buys The Times, 775
    career of, 328
    friendship with Wells, 330, 696
    mentality of, 330
    on his success, 329
    produces school magazine, 326
Nothing to Pay, 148
Novels, "character" in, 494
    dialogue, 500
    Henry James on, 489 et seq.
    objectives of, 493
    of the future, 502
    Wells on, 488 et seq.
    with a purpose, 496
Old Wives' Tale, Tic (Arnold Bennett), 628
Oliver, F. S., 762
Olivier, Lord, 471, 600
    as a Fabian, 598
    in the socialist movement, 238
Origin of the Idea of God (Allen), 547
Orr's Circles of the Science, 55
Ostrogorski, Professor, 599
Oundle School, 323, 726, 729
Outline of History, 716 et seq.
Owen, Robert, 180, 246, 249

PAINE, TOM, 138
Paish, Sir George, 694, 695
Paley's Evidences, 188
Pall Mall Gazette, 373
Passfield, Lord and Lady, see Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Passionate Friends, 477, 551
Pavlov's Physiological Institute, 815
Payne, James, 546
Payne, Jim, 611
Pease, Edward, 608, 66I
P.E.N. Clubs, 809
Pennicott, Clara, II3, II5, I30
Pennicott, Kate, 1I3, 119, I3I
Pennicott, Thomas, 103, II2 et seq., I23, I3I
Petrography at South Kensington, 230
Physical Society, 211.
Physics, riddles of science of, 219
Physiological Aesthetics (Allen), 547
Pinero, Sir Arthur, 542
Pinker, J. B., 410, 614
Planck, Max, 221, 232, 226
Plato's Republic, 139, 177, 185
Platt, Mr., 153, 155, 168
Poe's Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, 97
Popham, Mr. and Mrs., 597
Porter, Mr., 234
Powell, Professor York, 610, 611
Private Life of Henry Maitland (Roberts), 567
Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (Gissing), 575
Proudhon, La Propriété c'est le Vol, 249
Proust, Marcel, 463

RALEIGH, SIR WALTER, 635
Rasselas, 138
Raut, M., 293, 294
Rea, Sir Walter, 694
Rediscovery of the Unique, 223, 356
Reeves, Pember, 761, 762
Reid, Capt. Mayne, 78
Reinach, Madame, 509
Repington, Colonel, 762
Research Magnificent, 498, 624, 736
Rhodes, Cecil, 756, 759
Rhondda, Lady, 485
Riceyman Steps (Arnold Bennett), 618
Richardson, Dorothy, 557
Ridge, W. Pett, 508, 514
Riley, Miss, 45, 64
Robbins, Amy Catherine, at Woking, 542
    at Worcester Park, 557
    in Italy, 567, 572
    joins Wells in London, 375, 426
    life with Wells, 461 et seq., 509
    literary work of, 462
    marries H. G. Wells, 438
    Wells' letters to, 384, 386 et seq., 392
    death of, 742, 746
Robbins, Mrs., 394, 396, 510, 516
Roberts, Adeline, 362, 369, 386, 388
Roberts, Morley, 567, 578
Robinson, James Harvey, 727
Rodgers and Denyer, Messrs., 116, 117, 124, 151
Rogers. Professor, 792
Rolfe, Frederick, 602
Romney, George. 52
Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin, 794, 795
Roosevelt, President Franklin, 515, 744, 780
    policy of, 785 et seq.
Roosevelt, President Theodore, 755 et seq., 793
Rosebery, Earl, 764
Ross, Sir Denison, 719
Rossetti, Christina, 618
Rothenstein, Sir William, 567
Rothermere, Lord, 328
Rouse, Mr., 295
Royal College of Science, 175, 201, 207 et seq.
Ruck, Berta, 602
Runciman, J. F., 521
Ruskin, John, 286
    as socialist, 238, 247, 249
Russell, Bertrand, 761, 762, 765
Russell, Charles, 786
Russia, experimental state capitalism in, 264
    Wells' visits to, 726, 771, 779, 799
Russia in the Shadows, 724

SADLER, MICHAEL, 761
Saintsbury, Professor, 520
Salmon, Miss, 74
Salvaging of Civilization, The, 720
Samurai Order, 658 et seq., 735, 745
Sanders, W. Stephen, 259
Sanderson, Cobden, in the socialist movement, 238
Sanderson, F. W., 323, 7251 726
Sassoon, Sir Edward and Lady, 635
Saturday Review under Harris, 520

Scepticism of the Instrument, 324
Science of Life, 351, 721
Science Schools Journal, 240, 302, 309, 374
Sea Lady, 468, 473, 477, 498, 597
Secret Places of the Heart, The, 478, 677
Secrets of Crewe House, 700
Select Conversations With an Uncle, 374, 511
Shape of Things to Come, 262, 501, 643, 748, 749
Sharp, Clifford, 602
Shaw, G. Bernard, 471, 522, 620
    and the theatre, 541
    at the Fabian Society, 239, 661
    brain of, 29
    contributes to Saturday Review, 521
    first meeting with Wells, 539
    friendship with Frank Harris, 521
    in the socialist movement, 238, 244, 249. 265
    meeting with Conrad, 621
Shaw, Lord, 695
Shelley Percy Bysshe, 185, 240, 305
Sheridan, Clare, 612, 684
Short History of the World, 719
Shorter, Clement K., 514
Sickert, Walter, 532
Silk, Mr., 357, 520
Simmons, A. T., 234, 139, 291, 321
Simon, Sir John, 735
Sitwell, Edith, 462
Sladen, Douglas, 557
Slip under the Microscope, A., 100
Smith, E. H., 234, 238, 239, 250
Smith, John Hugh, 762
Smith's Principia, 140, 154
Snowden, Philip, 745
Socialism, as practical Christianity,:
    association with democracy, 254
    condemnation of profit motive, 249
    defects in nineteenth.century. 251, 653
    development of, 245
    early adherents to, 238
    essential unfruitfulness of, 265
    foreign, 348
    influence of Marx on, 263
    marriage under, 481
    progressiveness of Communist, 26
    repudiation of planning by, 262
    unprogressiveness in Western, 25
    Webb theory of, 253
    Wells' impression of, as student, 244
    Wells' Utopian, 657
    without a competent receiver, 252, 732
Socialism and Sex Relations, 480
Socialism and the Family, 478
Socialism and the Middle Classes, 471
Socialism and the Scientific Motive,
Soul of a Bishop, 498, 674
Sparrowhawk, Mr., 115
Spencer, Herbert, 238, 250, 412, 664, 786
Spender, J. A., 706, 715
Squire, Sir John, 602, 674
Stalin compared with Franklin Roosevelt, 780; with Lenin, 805
    Wells' interview with, 800 et seq.
Steed, H. Wickham, 701, 706
Stevenson, Bob, 533, 611
Stevenson, R. L., 193, 305, 611
Stolen Bacillus, 515
Story of a Great Schoolmaster, 500, 727
Story of Days to Come, 645
Story of Tommy and the Elephant, 584
Strachey, Lytton, 502
Strachey, St. Loe, 471, 495
Street, G. S., 532, 542
Sturm's Reflections, 48
Sue, Eugene, Mysteries of Paris, 114
Surly Hall, 113 et seq., 131
Sutherland, Miss, 52, 53
Sutro, Alfred, 602
Sutton, Mrs., 76, 77
Symons, Arthur, 521
Swettenham, Colonel, 692
Swinnerton, Frank, 567, 633

TAYLOR, MISS) 386
Taylor, Mr., 234
Tennyson, Lord, 506
Terry, Ellen, at Surly Hall, 114, 283
Thackeray, W. M., 506, 507
Thomas, Rt. Hon. J. H., 745
Thomas, Owen, 511
Thomson, Sir Basil, 533
Tilbury, Mr., 561
Time Machine, 214, 309, 339, 518, 530, 625, 645, 758
Times, The, 328, 329
Times Book Club, lecture to, 495
Tit Bits, 316, 327
Tobin, A. I., 532
Tolstoy, Alexis, 813
Tolstoy, Count Leo, fugitive impulse of, 21
Tomlinson, H. M., 623
Tono Bungay, 53, 158, 492, 499, 503, 638, 639
Trevelyan, Rt. Hon. Sir George, 102
Trollope, Anthony, 506
Trotsky, Leon D. B., 94, 95, 173
Trotter, Wilfred, 658
Tutton, A. E., 240
Tyndall, 552
Tyrrell, Lord, 704, 769, 770, 772

UMANSKY, MR., 803
Undying Fire, The, 499, 658, 674, 675
Universe Rigid, The, 214, 323, 356
University Correspondence College, 33: et seq.
University Correspondent, The, 353, 361
Unwin, Raymond, 694
Up Park Alarmist, 135

VAN LOON, HENDRIK, 720, 722
Vathek, 138
Veranilda (Gissing), 578
Verne, Jules, 508
Vertov, Dziga, 780
Victoria, Queen, 46
Vincent, Edgar, see D'Abernon, Lord
Vincent, Mr., 517
Vision of Armageddon, A, 567
Voltaire's books, 138
Voysey, C. F. A., 638

WALKER, SIR EMERY, in the socialist movement, 238
Wallas, Graham, 238, 244, 158, 265, 597
Walton, Mrs., 171, 183
War and Peace, 504
War and the Future, 679, 692, 693
War in the Air, 666
War of the Worlds, 472, 543
Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 507
Warwick, Lady, 433, 526, 527
Washington and the hope of Peace, 724
Watson, H. B. Marriott, 5I7, 533
Watts, Arthur, 602
Way the World is Going, The, 727
Webb, Sidney, 598, 601, 761, 762
    at the Fabian Society, 661
    in the socialist movement, 238, 249. 352, 258, 265
Webb, Mrs. Sidney, 253, 253, 258, 2651 598, 600, 661
    originates Coefficients Club, 761
Wedgwood, Josiah, 751
Weismann, 200
Wells, Charles Edward, 53, 57
Wells, Edward, 53
Wells, Elizabeth, 53
Wells, Fanny J, 63, 64
Wells, Francis Charles, 195, 311
    apprenticeship of, 115
    at Nyewoods, 366
    in boyhood, 103
    in employment, 108, 109
Wells, Frederick Joseph, 195, 197, 304
    birth of, 63
    boyhood of, 109
    apprenticeship of, 115
    goes to South Africa, 369
    loses his job, 365
    on Wells divorce, 426
    school of, 74
    starts work, 109
Wells, Frederick Joseph, Wells' letters to, 379, 384, 390, 391, 393, 401, 403, 408
Wells, G. P., brain of, 29
    collaborates with his father, 351, 721
    visits Russia, 799, 826
Wells, Hannah, 54
Wells, Henry, 53
Wells, Herbert George, birth of, 64
    accident to. 76
    apprenticeship of, 116 et seq.
    as a lover, 422
    as a teacher, 173
    as dramatic critic, 534
    at Bromley Academy, 83
    at Henley House School, Kilburn, 317
    at Holt Academy, 292
    at Midhurst Grammar School, 141, 171
    at the New Vagabonds Club, 557
    at Up Park, 135, 175, 183, 302
    at Worcester Park, 557
    attends the Y.M.C.A., 160
    becomes a pupil teacher, 126
    believed to be consumptive, 299
    builds Spade House, 638
    class feeling of, 93.5
    comparison with Roger Bacon, 328
    conception of the world in youth, 95
    confirmation in Church of England, 187; preparation for, 188
    contributes to Debating Society, 234; to the Daily Mail, 663, 665; to the Fabian Society, 478; to the Saturday Review, 359
    declares himself a socialist, 238
    description of his mother, 44 et seq.; of his father, 53 et seq., 292
    early ideas on religion, 260 et seq.
    early reading of, 76, 138, 167
    early years of 38 64
    edits Science Schools Journal 240
    efforts to reorganize the Fabian Society, 660
    Fabian report of, 255
    failure as science student, 231, 233; in drapery trade, 157
    first schools of, 74
    first start in life, 112
    first-class pass in zoology, 204
    friendship with A. V. Jennings, 204; with Catherine Robbins, 363; with Northcliffe, 330, 696; with Rebecca West, 106
    friendships in boyhood, 105
    health undermined as a student, 237
    idea of a planned world, 643 et seq.
    impressions of socialism as student, 244
    in Italy, 567, 572
    in literary journalism, 352
    in love with Isabel Wells, 283
    in Southern France, 740
    in Woking, 542
    interest in Henry George, 179; in Plato, 177, 178
    interview with Cust, 512; with Stalin, 800 et seq.
    invents telpherage system, 684
    is joined by Catherine Robbins, 375 426
    lack of sympathy with his first wife 360
    leaves his first wife, 375, 426
    leaves school, 91
    leaves Wookey, 129
    letters to his brother, 379, 384, 390 391, 3931 401, 4031 408; to his father, 381, 395, 400, 408; to his mother, 129, 169, 383, 394, 395 398, 400, 409; to Miss Robbins 384, 386 et seq., 392
    life as a student in London, 266 et seq.
    life with Catherine Robbins, 461 et seq., 509
    liking for Latin, 1401 154
    marriage, first, 337 ; second, 439
    matriculates, 215
    meeting with his first wife, 4321 43:
    obtains diploma of College of Preceptors, 334, 345
    obtains Doreck [sic] scholarship, 345
    on acquisitiveness, 196
    on adolescence, 143
    on Allen (Grant), 546; on Allen's Woman Who Did, 549
    on America's part in the war, 708
    on apprentices, 147
    on Aryans and Jews, 100
    on Balfour, 772
    on Bennett (Arnold), 625 et seq.
    on biographies, 25
    on biological education, 346, 348 et seq.
    on biological science, 220
    on Boys (Prof.), 211
    on Catholicism, 1651 573
    on Conrad, 615, 618
    on constructive revolution, 73' et seq., 742
    on Curzon, 771
    on Darwin, 202
    on educational methods at College of Science, 207
    on emancipation of women, 483
    on fear of death, 301
    on Foreign Office personnel, 769
    on free love, 435, 436, 480, 483
    on Gissing (George), 567 et seq.
    on Grey (Viscount), 768
    on Haldane, 766
    on Harris (Frank), 522 et seq.
    on higher education, 339 et seq.
    on his Anticipations, 645
    on his Discovery of the Future, 648
    on his early writings, 291, 305
    on his letters, 376
    on his Modern Utopia, 656
    on his Outline of History, 7I7 et seq.
    on his persona, 24
    on his visit to President Franklin Roosevelt, 794 et seq.
    on Hitler, 100, 102
    on Hueffer (Ford Maddox), 617
    on Huxley, 202
    on individuality in causation, 222 et seq.
    on James (Henry), 488 et seq., 535
    on jealousy, 476
    on Judd (Prof.), 227
    on Lenin, 777
    on Leningrad and Moscow, 813, 817
    on life as a draper, 149
    on literary criticism, 507
    on literary style, 622
    on literature in the nineties, 506
    on London houses, 274
    on making of scientific apparatus, 212
    on measuring vibrations of a tuning fork, 216
    on Montague (C. E.), 682
    on Northcliffe, 330
    on novels, 488
    on origin of modern culture, 136
    on private school education, 321
    on psycho-analysis, 30, 79
    on quality of brains, 29, 752
    on reason for leaving his wife, 42 I et seq.
    on relations of the human mind to physical reality, 226
    on reverie, 75
    on Roosevelt (Theodore), 755
    on Sanderson of Oundle, 726
    on school system, 84
    on science in relation to the world, 300
    on science of physics, 218, 219
    on sex consciousness in children, 79
    on sexual awakening, 181
    on Shaw (G. B.), 539
    on social life, 752
    on socialization in relation to municipal organization, 257
    on stopping education at 14, 132
    on the Blands, 601
    on the "Brains Trust" in America, 791
    on the British Empire, 762
    on the Coefficients Club, 761 et seq.
    on the Communist idea, 178
    on the educated mind, 619, 620, 628
    on the Fabian Society, 238, 247 et seq.
    on the failure of socialism, 653
    on the framework of education, 723
    on the Harmsworths, 326 et seq.
    on the Imperial College of Science, 207, 208, 232, 237
    on the Jewish question, 353
    on the League of Nations, 694 et seq.; 716 et seq.
    on the "New Deal" in America, 785
    on "the New Republic," 652, 663
    on the "Open Conspiracy," 742 et seq.
    on the theatre, 541
    on the World-State, 651
    on top hats, 284
    on use of tanks in war, 683
    on value of work accomplished, 26
    on Wallas (Graham), 598
    on war, 665 et seq., 677 et seq.
    on Wilson's "Fourteen Points." 707
    on world change, 242 et seq.
    on written examinations, 142
    ostracized owing to Ann Veronica, 471
    physical appearance of, 280
    pre-Marxian socialism of, 179
    prepares propaganda literature against Germany, 697
    present home of, 749
    President of P.E.N. Clubs, 809
    produces Up Park Alarmist, 135
    reading in sociology and economics, 340
    reads the Freethinker, 162, 164
    relations with his brothers, 103; with his father, 193
    religious views of, 66, 67
    resigns from Fabian Society, 661
    rewrites the Time Machine, 518
    school holidays, 113
    source of success of, 626
    stands as Labour candidate, 255
    studies under Huxley, 175, 199; under Guthrie, 210
    study of geology, 227; of German, 215 ; of Marxism, 180; of physics, 210 ; of science, 173; of zoology, 201
    sued for infringement of copyright, 734
    takes B.Sc. degree, 233
    talk with Lenin, 95
    theological views of, 671 et seq.
    University career, 112
    Utopian theories of, 657 et seq.
    visit to America, 755, 782; to the Burtons, 306; to Frank Harris, 357; to Russia in 1914, 726, in 1920, 724, 771, in 1934, 779, 799 et seq.; to the war zones, 681
    war game of, 102
    works in chemist's shop, 138; in draper's shop, 146; for University Correspondence College, 335
    writes for Pall Mall Gazette, 374
    writings about sex, 467 et seq.
Wells, Isabel Mary (Mrs. H. G.), 280, 283, 315, 334
    lack of sympathy with Wells, 360, 426
    marriage of, 337
    runs a poultry farm, 431
    second marriage of, 432
    death of, 434
Wells, Joseph, as a reader, 193
    as cricketer, 62
    at Atlas House, 192
    at Liss, 197, 376
    early years of, 53 et seq.
    first meets Sarah Neal, 51
    is lamed for life, 108
    marriage of, 57
    moves to Nyewoods, 110, 303
    sets up in business, 60
    Wells' letters to, 381, 395, 400, 408
    death of, 198
Wells, Joseph, senr., 53
Wells, Joseph, of Redleaf, 54, 55
Wells, Mrs. Joseph (Wells' mother), 43
    becomes housekeeper at Up Park, 109
    early years of, 44
    first meets her husband, 51
    is dismissed from Up Park, 365
    love affairs of, 50
    marriage of, 57
    moves to Nyewoods, 366; to Liss, 376
    plans for her son, 115, 138, 146
    religious beliefs of, 48, 176
    Wells' letters to, 120, 169, 383, 394, 395, 398, 400, 409
    death of, 197
Wells, Lucy, 53
Wells, William, 53, 276
Wells, Mrs. William, 272, 278, 283, 288, 315, 356, 427
Welsh, James, 552

Wemyss, Lady, 776
West, Geoffrey, 168
    biography of Wells, 303 et seq., 311, 420
    on Morley's school, 92, 93
West, Rebecca, 551
Whale, James, 561
What Are We to Do with Our Lives?, 677, 746
What is Coming?, 679, 694, 695
Wheels of Chance, The, 499, 543, 604
When the Sleeper Awakes, 557, 582, 645
Where is Science Going?, 221
Wife of Sir Isaac Harman, The, 477, 485, 498, 548
Wilberforce, Bishop, 203
Wilde, Oscar, 359, 524, 542
Wilderspin, Mr., 171, 191
William IV, King, 46
Williams, Aneurin, 694
Williams, Bertha, 374, 461
Williams, Cousin, 128
Williams, "Uncle," 126 et seq.
Wilson, President Woodrow, 333, 666, 707, 716
Wolfe, Humbert, 775
Woman Who Did, The (Allen), 548
Wonderful Visit, The, 472
Wood's Natural History, 77
Woodward, Martin, 209
Wookey, Wells at, 126
Woolf, L. S.. 695, 706
Woolf, Virginia, 462
Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, 197, 226, 252, 262, 501, 600, 622, 721 et seq., 728, 744, 746, 749
World of William Clissold, The, 478, 500, 501,716, 740, 742,745
World Set Free, The, 666
Wyndham, George, 507, 532, 635

Year of Prophesying, A, 727
Young Man's Companion, 55

ZAHAROFF, 522
Zimmern, Alfred, 599, 706, 71