Reviews for Mother Church: A History of the Building of the Original Edifice of the First Church of Chri...

The average rating for Mother Church: A History of the Building of the Original Edifice of the First Church of Chri... based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-05-10 00:00:00 Veronica Gillespie This volume wraps up a rather ambitious overview of world history, ending about 1920. Wells is obviously a proponent of Socialism, though he admits there's been no demonstration of it working well and even points out some of its disastrous results. He's skeptical of Capitalism even though (with its flaws) it has done more to lift the world out of poverty than any other economic system. At the book's finish, he can't help but propound and prognosticate a future of world peace and with no property ownership. It's a pipe dream, of course. No system that forcefully confiscates from the citizens and redistributes wealth will ever bring this about. In order for a type of socialism to work, people would voluntarily have to share their possessions and everyone able-bodied would have to be willing to contribute their labor. As long as there is greed or laziness in the world that's not going to happen.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-10-14 00:00:00 Gregory Wilson It took me a while to read Volume II of Wells’s The Outline of History, mostly because of school and wanting to read other books. But this has been a long process for me. I finished the first volume nearly two years ago, and it’s been a gradual process to finishing it since then. Wells presents all of human history from the creation of the universe to the present day (1920). He tells everything in a very storybook-like manner, but the details are very well-versed and accurate overall. He literally prowess is clearly seen in this, with how he writes in the same fashion of one of his famous novels. It makes this a much easier-to-read history lesson to those who find the common narrative dull. I highly recommend to anyone who is generally curious about the political, social, or religious history of the world.