A Modern Utopia

"This book is in all probability the last of a series of writings, of which--disregarding certain
earlier disconnected essays--my Anticipations was the beginning. Originally I intended
Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative
writer. I wrote that book in order to clear up the muddle in my own mind about innumerable
social and political questions, questions I could not keep out of my work, which it distressed me
to touch upon in a stupid haphazard way, and which no one, so far as I knew, had handled in a
manner to satisfy my needs. But Anticipations did not achieve its end. I have a slow constructive
hesitating sort of mind, and when I emerged from that undertaking I found I had still most of my
questions to state and solve. In Mankind in the Making, therefore, I tried to review the social
organisation in a different way, to consider it as an educational process instead of dealing with
it as a thing with a future history, and if I made this second book even less satisfactory from a
literary standpoint than the former (and this is my opinion), I blundered, I think, more edifyingly
at least from the point of view of my own instruction."