"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
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