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Review of H. G. Wells   The Outline of History. Magnificent and Influential (but Jew-free) World History, Published in Many Formats.. This note by rerevisionist 26 March 2018 Wells' post-WW1 book deserves a place in my reviews. I posted in 2009 a counter-attack to a book by McKillop (I think a Canadian Roman Catholic) published in 2000, but I neglected to post a link in my reviews. West on McKillop on Wells is here (pdf format; only 1440 downloads, so far).       There's immense detail on Wells's ideas, some of which, in particular related to 'Jews', are wrong, often in subtle way. But that's not Wells's fault.       It includes of course a great deal of information on the history and later editions of Wells's two-volume work, with a lot of information on the various characters who contributed their views and opinions, including Wells's collaborators, and legal witnesses. It is mostly, though not completely, Jew-naive. It is science-naive, to some extent, following the convention that history is an 'art', and not a science. Speculations on population numbers, overcrowding, limits to numbers of friends and acquaintances, food supplies, strength, human micro-evolution, raw materials, the limits of science etc, are limited in this book by Wells; it's history rather than biology. Wells's booklet The New Teaching of History is his reply to several unimpressive critics. Click for My overview of H G Wells' life and work BOOK I THE MAKING OF OUR WORLD I THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME / II THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS / III NATURAL SELECTION AND THE CHANGES OF SPECIES / IV THE INVASION OF THE DRY LAND BY LIFE / V CHANGES IN THE WORLD'S CLIMATE / VI THE AGE OF REPTILES / VII THE AGE OF MAMMALS BOOK II THE MAKING OF MAN VIII THE ANCESTRY OF MAN / IX THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE / X THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PALAEOLITHIC MEN, THE FIRST TRUE MEN / XI NEOLITHIC MAN IN EUROPE / XII EARLY THOUGHT / XIII THE RACES OF MANKIND / XIV THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND BOOK III THE DAWN OF HISTORY XV THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES / XVI THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS / XVII SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES / XVIII WRITING / XIX GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS / XX SERFS, SLAVES, SOCIAL CLASSES, AND FREE INDIVIDUALS BOOK IV JUDEA, GREECE AND INDIA XXI THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS / XXII THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS / XXIII GREEK THOUGHT AND LITERATURE / XXIV THE CAREER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT / XXV SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA / XXVI THE RISE AND SPREAD OF BUDDHISM BOOK V THE RISE AND COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE XXVII THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS / XXVIII FROM TIBERIUS GRACCHUS TO THE GOD EMPEROR IN ROME / XXIX THE CAESARS BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE GREAT PLAINS OF THE OLD WORLD BOOK VI CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM XXX THE BEGINNINGS, THE RISE, AND THE DIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANITY / XXXI SEVEN CENTURIES IN ASIA (C 50 BC TO AD 650) / XXXII MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM / XXXIII CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES BOOK VII THE MONGOL EMPIRES OF THE LAND WAYS AND THE NEW EMPIRES OF THE SEA WAYS XXXIV THE GREAT EMPIRE OF JENGHIS KHAN AND HIS SUCCESSORS (THE AGE OF THE LAND WAYS) / XXXV THE RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION (LAND WAYS GIVE PLACE TO SEA WAYS) / CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 650-1683 BOOK VIII THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS XXXVI PRINCES, PARLIAMENTS, AND POWERS / XXXVII THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE / XXXVIII THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE / XXXIX THE REALITIES AND IMAGINATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY / XL THE INTERNATIONAL CATASTROPHE OF 1914 BOOK IX THE NEXT STAGE IN HISTORY XLI THE POSSIBLE UNIFICATION OF THE WORLD INTO ONE COMMUNITY OF KNOWLEDGE AND WILL / CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 1563-1920 To give an idea of the detail in Wells, here are his subheadings for just one section from his book VIII -The Age of Great Powers:- XXXVI PRINCES, PARLIAMENTS, AND POWERS 1 Princes and Foreign Policy 2 The English Republic 3 The Dutch Republic 4 The Break-up and Disorders of Germany 5 The Splendours of Grand Monarchy in Europe 6 The Growth of the Idea of Great Powers 7 The Crowned Republic of Poland and its Fate 8 The First Scramble for Empire Overseas 9 Britain Dominates India 10 Russia's Ride to the Pacific 11 What Gibbon thought of the World 12 The Social Truce draws to an End At the risk of appearing statistically obsessed (real experts of course are innumerate) I estimate Wells's Outline of nine books, in forty or so chapters (listed above), amounts to 287 sections in total. These average about 1500 words. If he wrote one section a day, it would take him less than a year to complete the book, assuming his illustrators, photographers, compositors and so on could keep up. Much of the brilliance of course lies in designing the plan in the first place. Note that Wells's sections aren't purely rehashes of then-conventional wisdom, but include concepts and attitudes and ideas – even when the factual basis is weakened by new discoveries his book retains considerable power. I took a few typical Wellsian ideas from his Outline. This list isn’t intended to even begin to approach Wells’s full breadth of material. Tendency of English speaking races to promulgate statements e.g. Magna Carta, U.S. Constitution, Wilson’s fourteen points Severe criticism of the use of the word ‘bourgeois’ by Marxists to include a huge range of human types - Francis Bacon, landowners etc Private enterprise after the Great War speculating in rents, not providing housing; insisting on closing state shipyards; buying up remunerative public enterprise after WW1 The importance of print to the human mind and its bearing on the political future Distinction between race, nation, and language groups [discussing ‘Aryan’] Intellectual tangles due to the differences between Realism and Nominalism ‘The Science of Thwarting the Common Man’ Idea that not too severe conflict causes ideologies or philosophy: divided Greece, shattered and captive Jewry; disordered China—‘insecurity and uncertainty seemed to have quickened the better sort of mind.’ Geology—slow changes with long spans of time; such as the Mediterranean flooding The vulgar error that the Roman Empire at the height of its power "united most of the known world." Could the Inquisition have been a debating society that took for its motto “Hear all sides”? Sea routes contrasted with land routes ‘need of the transferable vote to prevent the “working” of elections’ Various partitions of Poland Ridicule of the idea that early medieval Ireland was the main centre of culture in Europe Colonisation and e.g. reasons why eastern States of the U.S. are tiny compared with western states