Wells was long interested in the socialist movement in Great Britain & America & in all those complicated issues one lumps together as "social questions." He went into it personally and studied the socialist movement closely at first hand; he made the acquaintance of many of its leaders upon both sides of the Atlantic, joined numerous organizations, attended & held meetings, experimented in Socialist politics. From these inquiries he emerged with certain very definite conclusions as to the trend & needs of social development & these he renders in this book.
