Author Description

In this serious attempt to forecast the changes ahead in the 20th century from the year 1906, the author deals with the accelerating rate of scientific progress, housing, travel, population, business, pleasure, newspapers, utilization of the sea, science, education, religion, economics, and law. He describes his intentions in the following manner in his Preface:"The following was at first intended to be no more than an attempt to foresee the probable trend of mechanical invention and scientific discovery during the present century. But as the work took shape it was seen to involve a certain amount of what may be called moral conjecture, since the material progress of the new age could not very well be imagined without taking into account its mental characteristics. In these expectations of an optimist, a great ethical improvement of the civilised human race has been anticipated, and a rate of progress foreseen which perhaps no previous writers have looked for. Both in regard to moral development and material progress, it has been the aim of the author to predict nothing that the tendencies of existing movement do not justify us in expecting.A late-19th and early-20th century author. Works by T. Baron Russell include: A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist (9 editions published between 1905 and 1906 in English and held by 38 libraries worldwide); Current Americanisms: a dictionary of words and phrases in common use (13 editions published between 1893 and 1900 in English and held by 30 libraries worldwide); Borlase & Son: a novel (4 editions published in 1903 in English and held by 15 libraries worldwide); The Mandate (3 editions published between 1899 and 1909 in English and held by 9 libraries worldwide); Science At Home. Simple Experiments for Young People (3 editions published in 1909 in English and held by 5 libraries worldwide); A Guardian of the Poor (2 editions published in 1898 in English and held by 5 libraries worldwide); Last Year: The