Page:The Works of H G Wells Volume 4.pdf/19

This page has been validated.
PREFACE

at the Royal Institution in 1902, "The Discovery of the Future." It is a reasoned justification of the writer's distinctive attitude of mind towards political and moral questions.

Finally he has inserted in this volume a little pamphlet, "This Misery of Boots," which states the case for socialism as compactly and vividly as he can. It was written as a gift to the Fabian Society, which has continued to issue it as a propaganda pamphlet up to the present time.

xi