Mankind in the Making is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations, and together with that and a small pamphlet, The Discovery of the Future, presents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as aspects of one universal evolving scheme, and placing all social and political activities in a defined relation to that; and to this My instances are commonly British, but all the broad project of this book-the discussion of the quality of the average birth and of the average home, the educational scheme, the suggestions for the organization of literature and a common language, the criticism of polling and the jury system, and the ideal of a Republic with an apparatus of honour-is, I submit, addressed to, and could be adopted by, any English-reading and English-speaking man. H. G. WELLS.