"This book is in all probability the last of a series of writings of which--disregarding certain earlier disconnected essays--my Anticipations was the beginning. Originally I intended Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative writer. I wrote that book in order to clear up the muddle in my own mind about innumerable social and political questions questions I could not keep out of my work which it distressed me to touch upon in a stupid haphazard way and which no one so far as I knew had handled in a manner to satisfy my needs. But Anticipations did not achieve its end. I have a slow constructive hesitating sort of mind and when I emerged from that undertaking I found I had still most of my questions to state and solve. In Mankind in the Making therefore I tried to review the social organisation in a different way to consider it as an educational process instead of dealing with it as a thing with a future history and if I made this second book even less satisfactory from a literary standpoint than the former (and this is my opinion) I blundered I think more edifyingly at least from the point of view of my own instruction."