THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY Mr. WELLS has also written the following novels: LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM KIPPS MR. POLLY THE WHEELS OF CHANCE THE NEW MACHIAVELLI ANN VERONICA TONO BUNGAY MARRIAGE BEALBY THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS THE WIFE OF SIR ISAAC HARMAN THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT MR. BRITLING SEES IT THROUGH THE SOUL OF A BISHOP JOAN AND PETER THE UNDYING FIRE ¶ The following fantastic and imaginative romances: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS THE TIME MACHINE THE WONDERFUL VISIT THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU THE SEA LADY THE SLEEPER AWAKES THE FOOD OF THE GODS THE WAR IN THE AIR THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET THE WORLD SET FREE And numerous Short Stories now collected in One Volume under the title of THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND ¶ A Series of books on Social, Religious, and Political questions: ANTICIPATIONS (1900) MANKIND IN THE MAKING FIRST AND LAST THINGS NEW WORLDS FOR OLD A MODERN UTOPIA THE FUTURE IN AMERICA AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD WHAT IS COMING? WAR AND THE FUTURE IN THE FOURTH YEAR GOD THE INVISIBLE KING ¶ And two little books about children’s play, called FLOOR GAMES and LITTLE WARS THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind BY H. G. WELLS WRITTEN WITH THE ADVICE AND EDITORIAL HELP OF MR. ERNEST BARKER, SIR H. H. JOHNSTON, SIR E. RAY LANKESTER AND PROFESSOR GILBERT MURRAY AND ILLUSTRATED BY J. F. HORRABIN VOLUME I New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1920 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY H. G. WELLS. Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1920. NORWOOD PRESS J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. INTRODUCTION “_A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the earth, must be charged with the conviction that all existence is one--a single conception sustained from beginning to end upon one identical law._”--FRIEDRICH RATZEL.