In or about the year 2000, humanity has reached "that incredibly lofty goal to which its intrinsic efforts can carry it" - but rejected everything but crass materialism. Technology has advanced to the point where no one need work for a living, while the social sciences have achieved a smoothly-running if almost unbearably sterile social order. Formal religious beliefs except for Catholicism have been uprooted and eliminated as coherent systems, and the Catholic Church has been completely discredited in the eyes of the world ...
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In or about the year 2000, humanity has reached "that incredibly lofty goal to which its intrinsic efforts can carry it" - but rejected everything but crass materialism. Technology has advanced to the point where no one need work for a living, while the social sciences have achieved a smoothly-running if almost unbearably sterile social order. Formal religious beliefs except for Catholicism have been uprooted and eliminated as coherent systems, and the Catholic Church has been completely discredited in the eyes of the world, finally being outlawed. The result is everything the late Victorians and Edwardians believed would bring human happiness - and which brings nothing but the advent of new superstitions, despair, and the end of the world ... maybe.
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The story was written in 1907 but is set today. The author does an amazing job of predicting future morals and trends in the world today. His mistake is that he thought that communism would really deliver on its promises.
tom r
Oct 28, 2011
prophetic
written in 1907, this book describes much of our current culture. If the accuracy continues, we are in for quite a ride.
Teresa C
Sep 30, 2010
Lord of the World
Book arrived quickly and appropriately packaged for shipping. Condition of book was as described and in good shape for reading.
