The Discovery Of The Future (Unabridged)

The Discovery of the Future is a 1902 philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally delivered to the Royal Institution on January 24, 1902. Wells begins by distinguishing between «two divergent types of mind,» one that judges and attaches importance principally to what has happened in the past and one that judges and attaches importance principally to what will happen in the future. To the former he attributes the adjectives «legal or submissive,» «passive,» and «oriental,» and to the latter the adjectives «legislative, creative, organizing, or masterful,» and «active,» calling it «a more modern and much less abundan…