The way the world is going
- Subtitle
- Guesses & forecasts of the years ahead
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1. THE WAY THE WORLD IS GOING2. NOTE3. ACKNOWLEDGMENT4. I MAN BECOMES A DIFFERENT ANIMAL. DELUSIONS ABOUT HUMAN FIXITY5. II WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CHINA? DOES THE KUOMINTANG FORESHADOW A NEW SORT OF GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD?6. III WHAT IS FASCISM? WHITHER IS IT TAKING ITALY?7. IV DOUBTS OF DEMOCRACY. NEW EXPERIMENTS IN GOVERNMENT8. V DEMOCRACY UNDER REVISION9. VI THE ABSURDITY OF BRITISH POLITICS: A SHADOW ON THE WHOLE WORLD. WHAT HAS TO BE DONE ABOUT IT?10. VII BALDWINISM A DANGER TO THE WORLD. WANTED, A COALITION GOVERNMENT. THE DEADLOCK AND THE WAY OUT11. VIII COMMUNISM AND WITCHCRAFT12. IX THE FUTURE OF LABOUR. THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOUR. CONTROVERSIAL HALLUCINATIONS13. X WHAT IS THE BRITISH EMPIRE WORTH TO MANKIND? MEDITATIONS OF AN EMPIRE CITIZEN14. XI THE PRESENT USELESSNESS AND DANGER OF AEROPLANES. A PROBLEM IN ORGANIZATION15. XII CHANGES IN THE ARTS OF WAR. ARE ARMIES NEEDED ANY LONGER? THE TWILIGHT OF THE GUARDS16. XIII DELUSIONS ABOUT WORLD PEACE. THE PRICE OF PEACE17. XIV THE POSSIBILITY OF WAR BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AMERICA. SUCH A WAR IS BEING PREPARED NOW. WHAT ARE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE TO DO ABOUT IT?18. XV THE REMARKABLE VOGUE OF BROADCASTING: WILL IT CONTINUE?19. XVI THE SILLIEST FILM: WILL MACHINERY MAKE ROBOTS OF MEN?20. XVII IS LIFE BECOMING HAPPIER?21. XVIII EXPERIMENTING WITH MARRIAGE. LEGAL RECOGNITION OF CURRENT REALITIES22. XIX NEW LIGHT ON MENTAL LIFE: MR. J. W. DUNNE’S EXPERIMENTS WITH DREAMING23. XX POPULAR FEELING AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. ANTI-VIVISECTION24. XXI THE NEW AMERICAN PEOPLE: WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT?25. XXII OUTRAGES IN DEFENCE OF ORDER. THE PROPOSED MURDER OF TWO AMERICAN RADICALS26. XXIII SOME PLAIN WORDS TO AMERICANS. ARE THE AMERICANS A SACRED PEOPLE? IS INTERNATIONAL CRITICISM RESTRICTED TO THE EASTWARD POSITION?27. XXIV FUEL-GETTING IN THE MODERN WORLD28. XXV THE MAN OF SCIENCE AND THE EXPRESSIVE MAN. TO WHOM DOES THE FUTURE BELONG? SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT IVAN PAVLOFF AND GEORGE BERNARD SHAW29. XXVI THE FUTURE OF THE NOVEL. DIFFICULTIES OF THE MODERN NOVELIST30. XXVII IS A BELIEF IN A SPIRIT WORLD GROWING? WHY MANY SENSIBLE MEN CONTINUE TO DOUBT AND DISREGARD IT. WHAT IS IMMORTALITY?