Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net NEW WORLDS FOR OLD A PLAIN ACCOUNT OF MODERN SOCIALISM _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ _SHORT STORIES_ The Plattner Story and others Tales of Space and Time The Stolen Bacillus and other Stories Twelve Stories and a Dream _ROMANCES_ The Time Machine The Island of Dr. Moreau The War of the Worlds The Wonderful Visit The Invisible Man The First Men in the Moon The Food of the Gods The Sea Lady When the Sleeper Wakes In the Days of the Comet _NOVELS_ Love and Mr. Lewisham Kipps _SOCIOLOGICAL AND SOCIALIST ESSAYS_ Anticipations Mankind in the Making A Modern Utopia The Future in America NEW WORLDS FOR OLD A PLAIN ACCOUNT OF MODERN SOCIALISM BY H. G. WELLS LONDON CONSTABLE & COMPANY LTD. 1912 _Published March 1908. Popular Edition Revised June 1909. Reprinted July 1909, Sept. 1922_ INTRODUCTORY REMARKS "Undiluted Atheism, theft and immorality.... I know of no language sufficiently potent to express fully my absolute detestation of what I believe to be the most poisonous doctrine ever put forward, namely Socialism." HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF RUTLAND. "Let all parties then unite to defeat this insidious Socialism which is threatening the country, and take immediate steps to expose and bring it to light. The country may truly be said to be sleeping over a veritable volcano which the next general election may precipitate, unless steps are taken at once to bring this nightmare into the light of day and force it out of its creeping nocturnal habits." MR. DUDLEY S. A. COSBY in the _Westminster Review_.