New Worlds for Old Author:H. G. Wells 1909. Wells was long interested in the Socialist movement in Great Britain and America and in all those complicated issues one lumps together as "social questions." He went into it personally and studied the Socialist movement closely and intimately at first hand; he made the acquaintance of many of its leaders upon both sides of the Atlantic, j... more »oined numerous organizations, attended and held meetings, experimented in Socialist politics. From these inquiries he emerged with certain very definite conclusions as to the trend and needs of social development and these he renders in this book.« less