ABSTRACT
In A Modern Utopia, Wells applied Malthusian logic to his vision of human progress towards utopia. In particular, he argues that there is a need for the state to regulate the population and save people from themselves. He also advocates a world-state run by a voluntary nobility – a Samurai – which has one currency and one language. Most Utopias present themselves as going concerns, as happiness in being; they make it an essential condition that a happy land can have no history, and all the citizens one is permitted to see are well looking and upright and mentally and morally in tune. The dreadfulness of all such proposals as this lies in the possibility of their execution falling into the hands of hard, dull, and cruel administrators. But in the case of a Utopia one assumes the best possible government, a government as merciful and deliberate as it is powerful and decisive.
