"This book is in all probability the last of a series of writin"writings, of which--disregarding certain earlier disconnected essays--my gs, Anticipations was the beginning. Originally I intended AnticiAnticipations Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what pations 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 ...