In or about the year 2000, humanity has reached "that incredibly lofty goal to which its intrinsic efforts can carry it" — but rejected everything but crass materialism. Technology has advanced to the point where no one need work for a living, while the social sciences have achieved a smoothly-running if almost unbearably sterile social order. Formal religious beliefs except for Catholicism have been uprooted and eliminated as coherent systems, and the Catholic… (more)
Language: English
Published in: 1907
Word count: 99,375 words (≈ about 7 hours)
Source: http://gutenberg.org
Copyright: Public Domain
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