Mankind in the Making
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankind_in_the_Making Release date is 2004-12-01
The New Republic -- The problem of the birth supply -- Certain wholesale aspects of man-making -- The beginnings of the mind and language -- The man-making forces of the modern state -- Schooling -- Political and social influences -- The cultivation of the imagination -- The organization of the higher education -- Thought in the modern state -- The man's own share -- Appendix: Paper on administrative areas read before the Fabian society.
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"Mankind in the Making" by H. G. Wells is a collection of essays published in 1903. Wells examines how children develop into citizens of the modern state, proposing a controversial doctrine called "New Republicanism" that judges all things by their effect on human evolution. He critiques contemporary institutions and addresses contentious topics including reproduction, child-rearing standards, infant mortality, and language education. Wells advocates for state-determined childcare standards and policies designed to discourage what he terms "inferior people" from reproducing, revealing the troubling eugenic thinking of his era. (This is an automatically generated summary.)