to concentrate on the probable development of future history. As a result, he joined the Fabian Society from 1903 to 1908, and was active in the League of Nations movement during the First World War. By 1934, he was talking to both FDR and Stalin about his world-saving schemes.
Never successfully in his attempts at political reform, he put his visions for a utopia into his fiction, including A Modern Utopia, Men Like Gods, The Food of the Gods (in which a super-race is created by super nutrients), How It Came to Earth, and In the Days of the Comet (in which the gases in a cometΓÇÖs tail transform human personality). He also presaged the terrible destructive powers of tanks and airplanes in ΓÇ£The Land IroncladsΓÇ¥ (1903) and ΓÇ£The War in the AirΓÇ¥ (1914). By 1945, he had
