PREFACE

IN this little volume, the Author puts the important science of Sociology in a nutshell. In less than fifteen thousand simple words and nine original illustrations, he tells the whole story of ideal civilization so clearly that any ordinary reader can easily understand it, and so completely that few if any Readers can mention any important good thing that refined people would want but what is in that ideal Society, and from which practically all our present bad things are eliminated.

So far as the Writer is aware, “The Story of the World a Thousand Years Hence” is the most radical book ever written. No other writer has ever proposed so many fundamentally radical changes in Human Society. But there is no danger whatever. All its radicalism is on the side of health, peace, justice, refinement, sane freedom, sound naturalism, universal prosperity and friendly mutuality.

It also seems to be the first book ever written which accords to women and children a fair deal in life. It clearly points out how every 8man, woman and child can live a free, easy, independent, happy life financially, industrially, domestically, socially and parentally. It clearly and definitely presents the first real glimpse of ideal civilization, a real heaven on earth, and is, therefore, the most important message ever delivered to struggling humanity. It serves the important twofold purposes of pleasantly educating the immature, and it also serves as a practical guide for harmonious industrial, domestic and parental co-operation on a large scale for the matured. As to the truth of these claims, the Author invites the intelligent, open-minded Readers to be the judges, but always on the assumption that it requires intelligent people to run a community or a world harmoniously.

HENRY OLERICH,

2219 Larimore Avenue,

Omaha, Nebraska.

1923.

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