Editing World Brain (section)

=== Speech to the Congrès Mondial De La Documentation Universelle ===
This section provides a brief excerpt of Wells's speech at the [[World Congress of Universal Documentation]], 20 August 1937. He tells the participants directly that they are participating in the creation of a world brain. He says:

<blockquote> I am speaking of a process of mental organisation throughout the world which I believe to be as inevitable as anything can be in human affairs. The world has to pull its mind together, and this is the beginning of its effort. The world is a Phoenix. It perishes in flames and even as it dies it is born again. This synthesis of knowledge is the necessary beginning to the new world.</blockquote>