@booklet {782, title = {"A Modern Prometheus"}, howpublished = {Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY)}, volume = {3.4}, year = {1930}, month = {Fall 1930}, pages = {436-91, 574}, abstract = {

1930 Wates, Cyril G[eoffrey] (1884-1946). \“A Modern Prometheus.\” Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY) 3.4 (Fall 1930): 436-91, 574. CU-Riv

Among other things, the story describes a eutopia that began to emerge in the 1950s called the Age of Social Enlightenment. Based initially on \“The Law of the Triangle\”--\“Healthy and congenial occupation with an adequate income for all. Equal opportunities to all and to each the full reward of his accomplishment. Unfair privileges at the expense of others, to none\” (445 Emphasis in the original). Stresses gradual change. People neglected the physical sciences for the social sciences, which caused future problems; the renaissance of the physical sciences solved the problems and an even better interplanetary eutopia developed.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Cyril G[eoffrey] Wates (1884-1946)} }