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... tional Observer , " he recalled . The new work ran as a series of articles offering glimpses of the future until Henley was removed as editor of the magazine . That turned out to be a piece of good fortune X H. G. Wells.
... future : what kind of world would emerge from all this change ? Wells himself was taught by Thomas Huxley , the biologist who was the champion of Darwin's theories in a series of public debates , and Wells's science - fiction works were ...
... future and our persuasion that this ignorance is incurable that alone has given the past its enormous predominance in our thoughts . " There are two kinds of minds , he said . One , ori- ented to the past , regards the future " as sort ...
... future , but a future imagined with greater realism and in greater detail than earlier stories of the future . It also introduced , for the first time in fiction , the notion of a machine for travelling in time . Earlier stories about ...
... future , with its troglodytic Morlocks descended from the working class of his day and the pretty but helpless Eloi devolved from the leisure class , may seem antiquated political the- ory . It emerged out of the concern for social ...
Contents
Section 1 | 65 |
Section 2 | 73 |
Section 3 | 82 |
Section 4 | 91 |
Section 5 | 100 |
Section 6 | 104 |
Section 7 | 112 |
Section 8 | 119 |
Section 9 | 121 |