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Title: The New Machiavelli
Author: Herbert George Wells
Release Date: August 2, 2008 [EBook #1047]
Last Updated: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger
THE NEW MACHIAVELLI
by H. G. Wells
CONTENTS
BOOK THE FIRST: THE MAKING OF A MAN
CHAPTER THE FIRST ~~ CONCERNING A BOOK THAT WAS NEVER WRITTEN
CHAPTER THE SECOND ~~ BROMSTEAD AND MY FATHER
CHAPTER THE THIRD ~~ SCHOLASTIC
CHAPTER THE FOURTH ~~ ADOLESCENCE
BOOK THE SECOND: MARGARET
CHAPTER THE FIRST ~~ MARGARET IN STAFFORDSHIRE
CHAPTER THE SECOND ~~ MARGARET IN LONDON
CHAPTER THE THIRD ~~ MARGARET IN VENICE
CHAPTER THE FOURTH ~~ THE HOUSE IN WESTMINSTER
BOOK THE THIRD: THE HEART OF POLITICS
CHAPTER THE FIRST ~~ THE RIDDLE FOR THE STATESMAN
CHAPTER THE SECOND ~~ SEEKING ASSOCIATES
CHAPTER THE THIRD ~~ SECESSION
CHAPTER THE FOURTH ~~ THE BESETTING OF SEX
BOOK THE FOURTH: ISABEL
CHAPTER THE FIRST ~~ LOVE AND SUCCESS
CHAPTER THE SECOND ~~ THE IMPOSSIBLE POSITION
CHAPTER THE THIRD ~~ THE BREAKING POINT
BOOK THE FIRST: THE MAKING OF A MAN
CHAPTER THE FIRST ~~ CONCERNING A BOOK THAT WAS NEVER WRITTEN
1
Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living, and I have found myself with the teeming interests of the life I have abandoned still buzzing like a swarm of homeless bees in my head. My mind has been full of confused protests and justifications. In any case I should have found difficulties enough in expressing the complex thing I have to tell, but it has added greatly to my trouble that I have a great analogue, that a certain Niccolo Machiavelli chanced to fall out of politics at very much the age I have reached, and wrote a book to engage the restlessness of his mind, very much as I have wanted to do. He wrote about the relation of the great constructive spirit in politics to individual character and weaknesses, and so far his achievement lies like a deep rut in the road of my intention. It has taken me far astray. It is a matter of many weeks now—diversified indeed by some long drives into the mountains behind us and a memorable sail to Genoa across the blue and purple waters that drowned Shelley—since I began a laboured and futile imitation of "The Prince." I sat up late last night with the jumbled accumulation; and at last made a little fire of olive twigs and burnt it all, sheet by sheet—to begin again clear this morning.