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A renowned English writer, often called the “father of science fiction,” whose works explored futuristic concepts and societal impacts of technology.
1. A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON
“I dream very little,” I answered. “I doubt if I have three vivid dreams in a year.”
2. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANITY
A religious system so many-faced and so enduring as Christianity must necessarily be saturated with truth even if it be not wholly true.
3. My Friend Stumbled on an Invention That Could Revolutionize Human Life
Certainly, if ever a man found a guinea when he was looking for a pin it is my good friend Professor Gibberne.
4. Divorce
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5. THREE DAYS
“There is, I believe,” said Lincoln. “But for you—! If you would like to occupy yourself with that, we can make you a sworn aeronaut to-morrow.”
6. THE PRIMITIVE ARYANS
These Nordic people were destined to play a very important part indeed in the world’s history.
7. The Story of the Last Trump
“Now to God the Father, God the Son——”
8. The Possible Collapse of Civilisation
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9. THE FIRST SEAGOING PEOPLES
Cnossos was not so much a town as a great palace for the Cretan monarch and his people.
10. EGYPT, BABYLON AND ASSYRIA
We are entering now upon a thousand years of warfare between the once quite separated civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Nile.
11. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE
The earliest rocks in the record are called by geologists the Azoic rocks, because they show no traces of life.
12. THE FIRST TRUE MEN
These first real human beings we know of in Europe appear already to have belonged to one or other of at least two very distinct races.
13. THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIALISM
In that spirit, and with no presumption of finality, this little book of explanations is given to the world.
14. SERFS, SLAVES, SOCIAL CLASSES, AND FREE INDIVIDUALS
On the whole, the common men were probably well content to live under lord or king or god and obey their bidding.
15. THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING
“Dark and damnable,” said the old man suddenly. “Dark and damnable. Turned out of my room among all these dangers.”
16. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE
About 200 centuries ago or earlier, real men of our own species, if not of our own race, came drifting into the European area.
17. PRIMITIVE NEOLITHIC CIVILIZATIONS
We have to remember that human races can all interbreed freely and that they separate, mingle and reunite as clouds do.
18. GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS
Like the early Aryan life, it was a life in a sort of family-tribe household.
19. THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES
Priests are not very much in evidence, but there is a sort of medicine man who deals in spells and prophecy.
20. THE LAST BABYLONIAN EMPIRE AND THE EMPIRE OF DARIUS I
Even under the Assyrian monarchs and especially under Sardanapalus, Babylon had been a scene of great intellectual activity.
21. THE COMING OF THE DAY
To-night all over the world ships must be in flight and ships pursuing; ten thousand towns must be ringing with the immediate excitement of war….
22. Socialism and The Family
The Socialist movement is an item in an altogether different scale.
23. THE WEAR AND TEAR OF EPISCOPACY
He came to Princhester an innocent and trustful man.
24. CHANGES IN THE WORLD’S CLIMATE
It must be borne in mind that great changes of climate have always been in progress, that have sometimes stimulated and sometimes checked life.
25. REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM
It was Karl Marx who brought the second great influx of suggestion into the intellectual process of Socialism.
26. THE NEANDERTHALER AND THE RHODESIAN MAN
Mentally and physically they were upon a different line from the human line.
27. THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS
The settled folk had the weight of numbers on their side; the herdsmen might raid and loot, but they could not stay.
28. THE FIRST MAIN GENERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM
And who can doubt the amount of mental and moral dwarfing that is going on side by side with this physical shortage?
29. THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME
Astronomers and geologists and those who study physics have been able to tell us something of the origin and history of the earth.
30. MONKEYS, APES AND SUB-MEN
Now the past history of the Primates is one very difficult to decipher in the geological record.
31. SECESSION
There came another silence. “It’s all gone so differently,” she said. “Everything has gone so differently.”
32. The Human Adventure
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33. A PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF MEN
I seem to be a consciousness, vague and insecure, placed between two worlds.
34. PRIMITIVE NOMADIC PEOPLES
For settlement under the conditions of the primitive civilizations men needed a constant water supply and warmth and sunshine.
35. THE RACES OF MANKIND
It is necessary now to discuss plainly what is meant by a phrase, used often very carelessly, “The Races of Mankind.”
36. FREE WILL AND PREDESTINATION
I glance at this question rather to express a detachment than a view.
37. PROMINENT PEOPLE
“The King doesn’t belong. They had to expel him. It’s the Stuart blood, I suppose; but really—”
38. The American Population
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39. THE IMMIGRANT
These are all mitigations of the outlook, but still the dark shadow of disastrous possibility remains.
40. SUMERIA, EARLY EGYPT AND WRITING
About the same time, for chronology is still vague, the great history of Egypt was beginning.
41. AT THIS POINT A DISPUTE ARISES
Such arguments are not to be swept aside with a wave of the hand.
42. THE NEW HAROUN AL RASCHID
His definition of Prejudice impressed White as being the most bloodless and philosophical formula that ever dominated the mind of a man.
43. “AS THE WIND BLOWS.”
“Tu, nisi ventis
Debes ludibrium, cave.”
44. IN THE SILENT ROOMS
“Thi Man huwdbi Kin” forced itself on him as “The Man who would be King.”
45. THE AGE OF REPTILES
Amidst this spreading vegetation of the lower plains the reptiles were increasing mightily in multitude and variety.
46. EXEGETICAL
“My faith in God grows,” he said.
47. THE WORLD OF FACT
Fact expresses for me something in its nature primary and unanalyzable.
48. THE UNDER-SIDE
“She might have done better with herself than that,” said Asano.
49. THE BEING OF MANKIND
Let me point out that this is no sentimental or mystical statement. It is hard fact as any hard fact we know.
50. PRIMITIVE THOUGHT
The sources to which scientific men have gone in their attempts to reconstruct that primitive mentality are very various.
51. BELIEFS
I draw my beliefs exactly as an artist draws lines to make a picture, to express my impression of the world and my purpose.
52. THE SCANDALOUS RAMBLE
“It’s perfectly splendid. Of all the fine weather the best has been kept for now. My last day. My very last day.”
53. LOVE AFTER THE CHANGE
I went toward them, and all the perspectives of my reconstructed universe altered as I did so.
54. THE SPIRIT OF GAIN AND THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE
The gift for getting is the supreme gift—all others bow before it.
55. NEOLITHIC MAN IN EUROPE
Neolithic men came slowly into Europe from the south or south-east as the reindeer and the open steppes gave way to forest and modern European conditions.
56. THE HIGH CROSS PREPARATORY SCHOOL
“And if I might make so bold as to add a ’arf bottle of good Guinness, m’lady. It’s a tonic. Run down as you are.”
57. IN THE NEW FOREST
“You are, I perceive, cycling through this delightful country,” said the clergyman.
58. ADOLESCENCE
All this was a thing apart from the rest of my life, a locked avoided chamber….
59. The Island of Doctor Moreau: IV. AT THE SCHOONER’S RAIL
“Whatever you tell me, you may rely upon my keeping to myself—if that’s it.”
60. INTRODUCTION
The ‘nineties was a good and stimulating period for a short-story writer.
61. The New Phase
Their eyes met, and there was singularly little tenderness in their eyes.
62. Beginning Again
My words were far too unexpected for Tarvrille to understand. “The flies,” I repeated with an air of explanation.
63. THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND
The first languages were probably small collections of such words; they consisted of interjections and nouns.
64. THE WORLD IN TIME
At last a condition of things must have been attained in which a man might have stood up on earth and looked about him and lived.
65. The Mystery of the Stolen Body
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66. Imagine a Sphere Large Enough to Hold Two People
“Imagine a sphere,” he explained, “large enough to hold two people and their luggage.
67. THE RESUMPTION OF METAPHYSICAL ENQUIRY
Since then the world never effectually reopened these questions until the modern period.
68. Mr. Ledbetter’s Notorious Vacation
My friend, Mr. Ledbetter, is a round-faced little man, whose natural mildness of eye is gigantically exaggerated.
69. THE PEOPLE MARCH
“You are the Master of the Earth. You are owner of the world.”
70. The So-Called Science of Sociology
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71. THE LEAGUE MUST BE REPRESENTATIVE
Half a world peace is better than none.
72. The Schoolmaster and the Empire
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74. THE LORD OF THE DYNAMOS
Azuma-zi, however, shirked the discussion of his gods, even though he was kicked for it.
75. This Is a Story of a Time beyond the Memory of Man
A Story of the Stone Age is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history.
76. THE ANCESTRY OF MAN
Among all the apes and monkeys, the only group that have their great toes developed on anything like the same fashion as man are some of the lemurs.
77. The Island of Doctor Moreau: VIII. THE CRYING OF THE PUMA
“The devil you do!” said he. “What an ass I was to mention it to you! I might have thought. Anyhow, it will give you an inkling of our—mysteries. Whiskey?”
78. THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND
“A man,” one said, in hardly recognisable Spanish—”a man it is—a man or a spirit—coming down from the rocks.”
79. THE MINIMIFICENCE OF MR. BENSINGTON
When they got back to Mr. Carrington he was sitting up, dazed and weak, but able to warn them against the danger in the pool.
80. THE WAY TO CONCRETE REALIZATION
Fantastic as they are, they have played a large part in reducing the Hague Tribunal to an ineffective squeak amidst the thunders of this war.
81. WRITING
The door is not half open; the light is but a light new lit. Our world to-day is only in the beginning of knowledge.
82. The War in South Africa
I remember I felt singularly unwanted.
83. The Angel’s Debut
“Did you really make that up yourself?” said Mrs Jehoram, sparkling her eyes at him, “as you went along. Really, it is wonderful! Nothing less than wonderful.”
84. Boyhood
I was a Harbury boy as my father and grandfather were before me and as you are presently to be.
85. The War of the Worlds: Chapter XIII. HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE
“I was walking through the roads to clear my brain,” he said. “And suddenly—fire, earthquake, death!”
86. The War of the Worlds: Chapter V. THE HEAT-RAY
“What ugly brutes!” he said. “Good God! What ugly brutes!” He repeated this over and over again.
87. SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES
No doubt he ventured at first as a fisherman, having learnt the elements of seacraft in creeks and lagoons.
88. The Time Machine: V. In the Golden Age
All were clad in the same soft, and yet strong, silky material.
89. THE ENVOY
The gate closes upon him with a slam, and he vanishes from our ken.
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91. Mrs Jehoram’s Breadth of View
“The lunatic! Very likely. These half-witted people…. My dear, I don’t think I shall ever forget that dreadful encounter. Yesterday.”
92. IN THE GALLERY OF OLD IRON
So it was Lewisham enrolled his first ally in the cause of the red tie—of the red tie and of the Greatness that was presently to come.
93. THE BOY GROWS UP
“His heart failed him.
94. THE BEGINNINGS OF CULTIVATION
The pre-human age is called the “Older Palæolithic;” the age of true men using unpolished stones in the “Newer Palæolithic.
95. MISS HEYDINGER’S PRIVATE THOUGHTS
“Pretty, pretty, pretty—that is our business. What man hesitates in the choice? He goes his own way, thinks his own thoughts, does his own work …
96. WAR
No one has a use now for such superannuated things.
97. HOME!
A critical little girl eyed our couple curiously and made some remark to her ragamuffin friend.
98. The Island of Doctor Moreau: XVII. A CATASTROPHE
Scarcely six weeks passed before I had lost every feeling but dislike and abhorrence for this infamous experiment of Moreau’s.
99. THE AWAKENING OF MR. HOOPDRIVER
“Beastly cheap, after all, this suit does look, in the sunshine.”
100. Doctors
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101. The Island of Doctor Moreau: III. THE STRANGE FACE
“Confound you!” said Montgomery. “Why the devil don’t you get out of the way?”
102. OF THE ARTIFICIAL IN MAN, AND OF THE ZEITGEIST
She still scarcely realises, you see, the scrape she has got into.
103. THE STORY OF THE LATE MR. ELVESHAM
“What a career such a man might have!” he said. “It fills me with envy to think how I have accumulated that another man may spend——
104. The Island of Doctor Moreau: VII. THE LOCKED DOOR
“I’m itching to get to work again—with this new stuff,” said the white-haired man, nodding towards the enclosure. His eyes grew brighter.
105. “THE WHITE MAN’S BURTHEN”
The ghosts of the thirst-tormented Hereros rise up in their thousands from the African dust, protesting.
106. The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost
“Caught a ghost, did you?” said Sanderson. “Where is it?”
107. Traffic and Rebuilding
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108. The Trouble of the Barbed Wire
So, ingloriously, ended the Angel’s first and last appearance in Society.
109. THE ENCOUNTER AT STONEHENGE
“Talking wanton nonsense…. Any professional archaeologist would laugh, simply laugh….”
110. THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PALÆOLITHIC MEN, THE FIRST TRUE MEN
Now here again, with every desire to be plain and explicit with the reader, we have still to trouble him with qualified statements and notes of interrogation.
111. THE NEW WORLD
“Your servant, your most humble helper in God (your God),
112. AN INTERLUDE
“Unspeakable cad! My dear girl! Possible I AM an unspeakable cad. Who wouldn’t be—for you?”
113. The Island of Doctor Moreau: XII. THE SAYERS OF THE LAW
It was a thick voice, with something in it—a kind of whistling overtone—that struck me as peculiar; but the English accent was strangely good.
114. The Time Traveller Returns
“It seems a pity to let the dinner spoil,” said the Editor of a well-known daily paper; and thereupon the Doctor rang the bell.
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117. The Night of the Strange Bird.
That is as much as anyone can tell you of the glare upon Sidderford Moor and the alleged music therewith.
118. THE SWORD OF PEACE
Europe is at war!
119. The Ideal Citizen
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120. The Secret Behind Mr. Brisher’s Treasure
“Yes—buried wealth—treasure trove. It wasn’t more than a foot deep, not the top of it.”
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122. The Time Machine: Epilogue
He may even now—if I may use the phrase—be wandering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline seas of the Triassic Age.
123. THE PURSUIT
They did not look round, and he kept them just within sight, getting down if he chanced to draw closely upon them round a corner.
124. Delia
As Crump would tell you, people do not do that kind of thing unless there is something wrong with the nervous system.
125. LADY HARDY
He was a man of extensive reservations. His private life was in some respects exceptionally private.
126. THE NEED OF A NEW MAP OF EUROPE
That is why I think we liberal English should draw our new map of Europe now, first of all on paper and then upon the face of the earth.
127. THE AGE OF THE COAL SWAMPS
Plants no doubt preceded animal forms in this invasion of the land, but the animals probably followed up the plant emigration very closely.
128. Lady Hammergallow’s View
“Mr Hilyer, I protest. I know. Not anything you can say will alter my opinion one jot. Don’t try. I never suspected you were nearly such an interesting man.”
129. Mary Writes
Ours was to be in the first place a world literature.
130. GRAHAM SPEAKS HIS WORD
“This is the girl who told us what Ostrog had done,” he said.
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134. The Philosopher’s Public Library
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135. Of not liking Hallery and the Royal Society for the Discouragement of Literature
“Ordinary people snuggle up to God as a lost leveret in a freezing wilderness might snuggle up to a Siberian tiger….
136. THE TREASURE IN THE FOREST
The other man had been in the fore part of the canoe, closely scrutinising the land. He had a sheet of yellow paper on his knee.
137. THE SYNTHETIC MOTIVE
Different people, of differing temperament and tradition, have sought oneness, this steadying and universalizing thing, in various manners.
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139. The Man of Science
“This—ahem—gentleman,” said the Vicar, “or—ah—Angel”—the Angel bowed—”is suffering from a gunshot wound.”
140. FULL MOON
It was as if Martin spoke; it was her voice; it was the very quality of her thought.
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142. A DEAL IN OSTRICHES
He looked at me over his spectacles. “I’ve seen another that was refused at four.”
143. OF PERSONAL IMMORTALITY
Let me shift my ground a little and ask you to consider what is involved in the opposite belief.
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145. THE DEPARTURE
Dr. Martineau said something of no consequence about its being a very comfortable little car.
146. THE CAREER PREVAILS
He was pointed out to a raw hand, by the raw hand’s experienced fellow-townsman, as “that beast Lewisham—awful swat.
147. SOCIALISM
Socialism for me is a common step we are all taking in the great synthesis of human purpose.
148. THE SURBITON INTERLUDE
“A mother’s love,” she said. “I bear her THAT.”
149. The Time Machine: IV. Time Travelling
Noticing that, I noticed for the first time how warm the air was.
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151. After Dinner
“A little while ago I was a little pink baby.”
152. ADMINISTRATIVE SOCIALISM
Systematic expropriation of private owners by death-duties and increased taxation.
153. The Angel Explores the Village
So soon as the Angel had passed, one of the three hummed this tune in an aggressive tone.
154. IN PERSPECTIVE
“My charm of manner, I suppose. But, indeed, he’s very human.”
155. The War of the Worlds: Chapter IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS
“It’s a pity they make themselves so unapproachable,” he said. “It would be curious to know how they live on another planet; we might learn a thing or two.”
156. THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEA OF SOCIALISM
He wants a complete organization for all those human affairs that are of collective importance.
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159. THE DISCOVERY OF THE FOOD
That either dream is to be regarded as in any way significant or prophetic beyond what I have categorically said, I do not for one moment suggest.
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161. ON USING THE NAME OF GOD
Yet let me confess that I am greatly attracted by such fine phrases as the Will of God, the Hand of God, the Great Commander.
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163. The Hunting of the Strange Bird
“Dear me!” said the Vicar. “I had no idea.” He came forward cautiously. “Excuse me,” he said, “I am afraid I have shot you.”
164. THE LIBERAL FEAR OF RUSSIA
Defeat, or even a partial victory for the Allies, means nothing less than that.
165. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MIND AND LANGUAGE
The newborn child is at first no more than an animal.
166. THE OUTLOOK FOR THE GERMANS
I will do no more than I must to injure Germany further, and I will do all that I can to restore the unity of mankind.
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168. The Time Machine: XVI. After the Story
“The story I told you was true. I’m sorry to have brought you out here in the cold.”
169. THE CROWNING VICTORY
“Dreams like mine—abilities like mine. Yes—any man! And yet …—The things I meant to do!”
170. EPILOGUE
In one respect I shall certainly provoke criticism.
171. The Angel in Trouble
“The fact is,” said the Vicar, “this is no world for Angels.”
172. THE MAGIC SHOP
“This is the genuine magic,” he said. “The real thing.”
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174. Black Emptiness for Twenty Million Times a Million Miles
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175. THE FALLING STAR
“Good Lord!” said Henderson. “Fallen meteorite! That’s good.”
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179. Jimmy Goggles the God
“It isn’t everyone who’s been a god,” said the sunburnt man. “But it’s happened to me. Among other things.”
180. The Time Machine: XV. The Time Traveller’s Return
The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed.
181. THE BATTLE OF THE DARKNESS
Abruptly the flare was extinguished and the ways were an inky darkness once more, a tumultuous mystery.
182. The Normal Social Life
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183. The Island of Doctor Moreau: I. IN THE DINGEY OF THE “LADY VAIN.”
I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the Lady Vain.
184. Sunrise on the Moon
As we saw it first it was the wildest and most desolate of scenes. We were in an enormous amphitheatre, a vast circular plain, the floor of the giant crater.
185. THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVIDSON’S EYES.
Davidson felt about, and puzzled over it, and answered presently that he could feel it all right, but he couldn’t see it.
186. The War of the Worlds: Chapter XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERT
Farther on towards Weybridge, just over the bridge, there were a number of men in white fatigue jackets throwing up a long rampart, and more guns behind.
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189. Chapter V. THE STILLNESS
I could see in any direction save behind me, to the north, and neither Martians nor sign of Martians were to be seen.
190. The Island of Doctor Moreau: Introduction
On February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1° S. and longitude 107° W.
191. CONCERNING MR. MAXIMILIAN CRAFT
We are, I believe, assisting at the end of a vast, intolerable oppression upon civilisation.
192. THE AGE OF MAMMALS
The Pliocene was a temperate time, and many of the warmth-loving plants and animals had gone.
193. The Unknown Truth about Pyecraft
He sits not a dozen yards away. If I glance over my shoulder I can see him. And if I catch his eye—and usually I catch his eye—it meets me with an expression.
194. THE AWAKENING
The document before me must have helped us through the first awkwardness of that meeting.
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196. THE RED ROOM
“If,” I said a little louder, “if you will show me to this haunted room of yours, I will relieve you from the task of entertaining me.”
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199. The Island of Doctor Moreau: V. THE MAN WHO HAD NOWHERE TO GO
“You can’t have me!” said I, aghast. He had the squarest and most resolute face I ever set eyes upon.
200. THE MYSTIC ELEMENT
To the mystery of Power and Beauty, out of the earth that mothered us, we move.
201. THE STOLEN BACILLUS
“Those have been stained and killed,” said the Bacteriologist. “I wish, for my own part, we could kill and stain every one of them in the universe.”
202. OSTROG’S POINT OF VIEW
“Yet,” said Graham, “there is something resists, something you are holding down—something that stirs and presses.”
203. THE OBLITERATED MAN
Heavens! How the human agony cried within me! I loved Delia. But nothing found expression—I was already too deeply crusted with my acquired self.
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205. THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES
It is doubtful whether the gift was innate.
206. THE CAMPAIGN OPENS
Who could doubt that she was a help?
207. The Dismissal of Parsons
“He’s gone already,” said Platt. “Might have stopped to say good-by to a chap.”
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209. THE FIRST VISION
“You may die like a madman,” he said, “but you won’t die like a tame rabbit.”
210. CONSTRUCTIVE SOCIALISM
One has to recognize that this mind is at present a mind in a state of confusion, full of warring suggestions and warring impulses.
211. The Island of Doctor Moreau: XX. ALONE WITH THE BEAST FOLK
“None escape,” said I. “Therefore hear and do as I command.” They stood up, looking questioningly at one another.
212. IN THE LAND OF THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLES
“She is much more incapable than I am,” said Sir Richmond as if he delivered a weighed and very important judgment.
213. IN BATTERSEA PARK
She spoke at last with an effort. “That it hurts me,” she said, and grimaced and stopped again.
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215. Mr Cavor’s Moon Landing
The whole area was moon, a stupendous scimitar of white dawn with its edge hacked out by notches of darkness.
216. NEGATIVE TERMS
Let me try and express how in my mind this matter of negative terms has shaped itself.
217. SOCIALISM MEANS REVOLUTION
I want to change everything in the world that made that; and I do not greatly care what has to go in the process. Do you?
218. Making an End to Things
“I don’t mind scrambling,” she said with piping inflexibility, “but I can’t jump and I wunt jump.”
219. AT BOGNOR
“I’ll be level with you yet,” ran like a plough through the soil of his thoughts.
220. THE TRIUMPHS OF A TAXIDERMIST
“But all this is merely imitating Nature. I have done more than that in my time. I have—beaten her.”
221. THE IMAGININGS OF MR. HOOPDRIVER’S HEART
This proceeding in some occult way led to the purchase of a note-book and pencil, and that started the conception of an artist taking notes.
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223. The Roaring Wave of Fear That Swept Through the Greatest City in the World
She turned without a word—they were both panting—and they went back to where the lady in white struggled to hold back the frightened pony.
224. THE AGE OF FISHES
This question of Organic Evolution, like the question of the age of the earth, has in the past been the subject of much bitter controversy.
225. THE WORLD ON THE EVE OF WAR
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226. MATERIAL PROGRESS
Between the sparse great stars were deep blue spaces, unfathomed distances.
227. THE ASSIZE OF JEALOUSY
At that the autobiography stopped short, and the intercalary note began.
228. WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING
“To fight—yes. To fight in the air. I have thought before—. A big aeroplane is a clumsy thing. A resolute man—!”
229. 581 Stories To Learn About Non Fiction
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231. SCEPTICISM OF THE INSTRUMENT
The world of fact is not what it appears to be.
232. Failure in a Modern Utopia
Our world is still vindictive, but the all-reaching State of Utopia will have the strength that begets mercy.
233. Morning
“Oh! in return for things I do for him, you know. We go in for division of labour in this world. Exchange is no robbery.”
234. The War of the Worlds: Chapter IV. THE DEATH OF THE CURATE
“Nay,” shouted the curate, at the top of his voice, standing likewise and extending his arms. “Speak! The word of the Lord is upon me!”
235. THE FLIGHT TO LONDON
Ann Veronica had an impression that she did not sleep at all that night, and at any rate she got through an immense amount of feverish feeling and thinking.
236. THE FIRST BIRDS AND THE FIRST MAMMALS
The very earliest birds seem to have been seabirds living upon fish, and their fore limbs were not wings but paddles rather after the penguin type.
237. THE MAN WHO WAS GOING NOWHERE
“You were picked up in a boat, starving. The name on the boat was the Lady Vain, and there were spots of blood on the gunwale.”
238. THE MOONLIGHT RIDE
“I will do what has to be done.”
239. THE CRYSTAL EGG
Allusion has already been made to the glittering objects upon masts that stood upon the terrace of the nearer building.
240. THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS
In the rear of the Greeks proper came the kindred Macedonians and Thracians; on their left wing, the Phrygians crossed by the Bosphorus into Asia Minor.
241. PEOPLE WHOSE BOOTS DON’T HURT THEM
Everybody does not suffer misery from boots.
242. THE PURPLE PILEUS
“What a lot of these funguses there are about here!” remarked brother Tom presently. “I can’t see what use they are in the world.”
243. SUMMARY
Most minds, it seems to me, are similar, but none are absolutely alike in character or in contents.
244. THE HALL OF THE ATLAS
“No, no,” cried Howard, still gripping his arm. “This way. You must go this way.” And the men in red following them seemed ready to enforce his orders.
245. A Modern Utopia: The Bubble Bursts
“I’ve been in the gardens on the river terrace,” he answers, “hoping I might see her again.”
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247. PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS FROM THESE CONSIDERATIONS
The man trained solely in science falls easily into a superstitious attitude; he is overdone with classification.
248. Miss Winchelsea Goes to Rome
Miss Winchelsea was going to Rome and she made sure to let everybody know – to a point where she became a nuisance.
249. THE STUDY AND PROPAGANDA OF DEMOCRACY
All round the world there is this same obscuration of the real intelligence of men.
250. LOVE AMONG THE WRECKAGE
“I saw you yesterday. And I rode over to see you.” I had now come close to her, and stood looking up into her face.
251. The Island of Doctor Moreau: XI. THE HUNTING OF THE MAN
The memory of his work on the transfusion of blood recurred to me.
252. THE DREAM
The word remained like a little ash after a flare.
253. Further Adventures of the Angel in the Village
“If these are angels,” said the Angel, “then I have never been in the Angelic Land.”
254. THE TEMPTATION OF HARRINGAY
It is quite impossible to say whether this thing really happened. It depends entirely on the word of R.M. Harringay, who is an artist.
255. The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells – XVIII. THE FINDING OF MOREAU
“The Thing that bled, and ran screaming and sobbing,—that is dead too,” said the grey Thing, still regarding me.
256. The War of the Worlds: Chapter III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT
The fact is that we had absolutely incompatible dispositions and habits of thought and action, and our danger and isolation only accentuated the incompatibility
257. H.G. Wells’ Thoughts on America’s Treatment of African Americans
No, I can’t help idealizing the dark submissive figure of the negro in this spectacle of America.
258. Lady Mary Justin
And it wasn’t only the earthlier aspects of the life about me but also of the life within me that I had been discovering.
259. The War of the Worlds: Chapter III. ON HORSELL COMMON
A large portion of the cylinder had been uncovered, though its lower end was still embedded.
260. HESITATIONS
“Confound him!” said Mr. Lewisham, arguing the matter out with the bedroom furniture. “Why the devil can’t he mind his own business?”
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262. NATURAL SELECTION AND THE CHANGES OF SPECIES
m all things whatever that are without life in certain general aspects.
263. THE REALITIES AND IMAGINATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
We have given these particulars of the advance in man’s knowledge of the metallurgy of steel and its results by way of illustration.
264. SOME ARGUMENTS AD HOMINEM
After the revenue in the domestic budget under Socialism one must consider the expenditure.
265. HOW MR. HOOPDRIVER REACHED MIDHURST
It was one of my uncle’s profoundest remarks that human beings are the only unreasonable creatures.
266. THE NEW MAP OF EUROPE
Now the nineteenth century phrased this conception by talking about the “principle of nationality.”
267. THE NEW EDUCATION
The exact sciences lead to the administrative work of industrialism, and to general economics.
268. THE SYNTHESIS
I write this down. It is the form of my belief, and that unanalyzable something called Beauty is the light that falls upon that form.
269. The Last Meeting
I wanted a holiday badly, and then came this war crisis and I felt unable to go away for any length of time.
270. IN THE WEB OF THE INEFFECTIVE
Then came a letter which plunged abruptly into criticism.
271. OMISSIONS
At last he fell a-yawning so much that very reluctantly indeed he set about finishing this great and splendid day.
272. IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY
“But all this is merely imitating Nature. I have done more than that in my time. I have—beaten her.”
273. Of the New Reign
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274. Concerning Freedoms
The idea of individual liberty is one that has grown in importance and grows with every development of modern thought.
275. Engaged to the Battlements of Heart’s Desire
Within two months, within a matter of three and fifty days, Kipps had clambered to the battlements of Heart’s Desire.
276. INSOMNIA
He groaned and turned over and repeated the words: “A kind of magic world—not really real!”
277. THE SYMPATHY OF LADY SUNDERBUND
“The first thing I began to read again,” said Mrs. Garstein Fellows, “—I’m not saying it for your sake, Bishop—was the Bible.”
278. STUBLANDS IN COUNCIL
Never before had nurseries been so pretty as they were in that glowing pause at the end of the nineteenth century.
279. The War of the Worlds: Chapter II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE
I could hear a number of noises almost like those in an engine shed; and the place rocked with that beating thud.
280. The Island of Doctor Moreau: IX. THE THING IN THE FOREST
Once more I thought I caught the glint of his eyes, and that was all.
281. The War of the Worlds: Chapter 1. THE EVE OF THE WAR
“The chances against anything manlike on Mars are a million to one,” he said.
282. MR. LAGUNE’S POINT OF VIEW
“I’m damned if he overrides it,” said Lewisham, under his breath.
283. HOW FAR WILL EUROPE GO TOWARD SOCIALISM?
“Go as you please” has had its death-blow.
284. The Time Machine: XII. In the Darkness
I began to think of this house of mine, of this fireside, of some of you, and with such thoughts came a longing that was pain.
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286. THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, BRITAIN, AND RUSSIA
The mind plunges hopelessly through that tangle to the elements of a speech which is as yet unknown.
287. BROMSTEAD AND MY FATHER
I dreamt first of states and cities and political things when I was a little boy in knickerbockers.
288. Beginnings, and the Bazaar
He began only to have distinctive memories of himself in the time when his education had already begun.
289. THE LABOUR VIEW OF MIDDLE AFRICA
What are these broad essentials? What are the ends that must be achieved if Africa is not to continue a festering sore in the body of mankind?
290. WOULD MODERN SOCIALISM ABOLISH ALL PROPERTY?
The word “property,” one must remember, is a slightly evasive word.
291. CULTURE
Boston is now producing no literature except a little criticism.
292. THE SAD STORY OF A DRAMATIC CRITIC
Engaged to a very nice girl, named Delia. Fairly new, she was—cigarettes—liked me because I was human and original.
293. HOW I BECAME A LONDON STUDENT AND WENT ASTRAY
The whole illimitable place teemed with suggestions of indefinite and sometimes outrageous possibility, of hidden but magnificent meanings.
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295. Mr. Stratton to his Son
Indeed, we were but the ghosts of ourselves; all our substance seemed listening, listening to the little sounds that came to us from the study.
296. The Time Machine: XI. The Palace of Green Porcelain
I thought then—though I never followed up the thought—of what might have happened, or might be happening, to the living things in the sea.
297. THE MOVING WAYS
He turned, and Howard’s face was white. “Come back,” he heard. “They will stop the ways. The whole city will be in confusion.”
298. SCHOOLING
The modern school is not a thing that has evolved from a simple germ, by a mere process of expansion.
299. A SLIP UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.
“That is our goal, perhaps—I admit it, as far as science goes,” said the fair-haired student, rising to the challenge. “But there are things above science.”
300. Letters and a Telegram
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302. PLANES AND DIALECTS OF THOUGHT
Let me endeavour to make myself a little less obscure by a flagrant instance from physical things.
303. A MOTH—GENUS NOVO
Probably you have heard of Hapley—not W.T. Hapley, the son, but the celebrated Hapley, the Hapley of Periplaneta Hapliia, Hapley the entomologist.
304. AT THE RUFUS STONE
“I’m not a-going to tell all my secrets to any one who comes at me,” said Hoopdriver. “Not Likely.” And added fiercely, “And that I tell you, sir.”
305. MARGARET IN STAFFORDSHIRE
“You’ve got to do the thing you can,” he said, after a pause, “and likely it’s what you’re fitted for.”
306. MY PRIMARY ACT OF FAITH
I dismiss the idea that life is chaotic because it leaves my life ineffectual, and I cannot contemplate an ineffectual life patiently.
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308. We Will Float in This Sphere with No Occupation
“We shall be floating in this sphere with absolutely no occupation.”
309. CONCERNING A QUARREL
The beginning of the quarrel was trivial enough.
310. The Violin
He looked about him in a puzzled way. “I had a kind of vision while you were playing. I seemed to see——. What did I see? It has gone.”
311. THE WORK OF FIFTEEN DAYS
I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow and suddenly confronted by the work of a dozen busy navvies digging the foundations of a house.
312. The War of the Worlds: Chapter VI. THE HEAT-RAY IN THE CHOBHAM ROAD
It is still a matter of wonder how the Martians are able to slay men so swiftly and so silently.
313. The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells – IV: THE CYLINDER OPENS
“It’s a-movin’,” he said to me as he passed; “a-screwin’ and a-screwin’ out. I don’t like it. I’m a-goin’ ’ome, I am.”
314. The Time Machine: VIII. Explanation
I was at first inclined to associate it with the sanitary apparatus of these people. It was an obvious conclusion, but it was absolutely wrong.
315. INDIVIDUALITY AN INTERLUDE
I do not know whether the average age of the parent at the birth of a child under modern conditions can be determined from existing figures.
316. The Child of the Ages
“I’ve been working. I got excited by my work. I’ve been at the laboratory. I’ve had the best spell of work I’ve ever had since our marriage.”
317. THE MAN ALONE
No one would believe me; I was almost as queer to men as I had been to the Beast People.
318. Doctor Crump Acts
“It is just possible,” he said to himself rather than to the Angel, and began another piece of silence.
319. THE MIDDLE-CLASS MAN, THE BUSINESS MAN, AND SOCIALISM
Socialism is not the coming of chaos and repudiation, it is the coming of order and justice.
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321. UNDER THE KNIFE
“What if I die under it?” The thought recurred again and again, as I walked home from Haddon’s.
322. THE NECESSITY FOR METAPHYSICS
This persuasion is a very important thing in my mind.
323. THE YOUNG MAN ABOUT TOWN
The oldest novel in the world at any rate, White reflected, was a story with a hero and no love interest worth talking about.
324. THE HARDINGHAM HOTEL, AND HOW WE BECAME BIG PEOPLE
He adopted an urban style of dressing with the onset of Tono-Bungay and rarely abandoned it.
325. The Sky was Dark with Scurrying Clouds
he tranquil sunset had vanished, the sky was dark with scurrying clouds, everything was flattened.
326. The Arraignment of Jealousy
Life is so much fuller than any book can be.
327. PREFACE
In those days, moreover, we said this is the “war to end war,” and we still did not know clearly how.
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329. THOUGHTS IN PRISON
“I suppose pride and self-assertion are sin? Sinned against heaven—Yes, I have sinned against heaven and before thee….
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331. MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM
They created a religion that is still to this day one of the most vital forces in the world.
332. A WITHDRAWAL
Lewisham growled, went from page 1 to page 3—conscious of their both looking to him now—even intensely—and discovered Chaffery in a practical vein.
333. SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA
Side by side with the Museum, Ptolemy I created a more enduring monument to himself in the great library.
334. IS SOCIALISM POSSIBLE?
I don’t think the “human nature” argument against the possibility of Socialism will hold water.
335. The Voice of Nature
“A position, I can assure you, demanding Tact of an altogether superhuman quality!”
336. THE ECONOMIC PROCESS
So in its broad features, as a conflict between the birth strength of a splendid civilization and a hampering commercialism, I see America.
337. EUROPEAN AGGRESSION IN ASIA AND THE RISE OF JAPAN
We cannot tell here in any detail of Japan’s war with China in 1894-95. It demonstrated the extent of her Westernization.
338. THE PROBLEM OF MOTIVES THE REAL PROBLEM OF LIFE
I confess I find myself a confusion of motives beside which my confusion of perceptions pales into insignificance.
339. THE CAREER IS SUSPENDED
At the thought of that new life together that was drawing so near, she came into his head, vivid and near and warm….
340. THE GIANT RATS
“He’ll grow, as far as I can calculate from the hens and the wasps, to the height of about five-and-thirty feet—with everything in proportion—-”
341. MRS. TEDDY GOES FOR A WALK
“I suppose I must let you go,” she said. “Oh! I’d hate you not to go….”
342. The Time Machine: IX. The Morlocks
Probably my shrinking was largely due to the sympathetic influence of the Eloi, whose disgust of the Morlocks I now began to appreciate.
343. DEMOCRACY
And to begin with I must have a quarrel with the word itself.
344. THE OPPORTUNITY OF LIBERALISM
The opportunity of Liberalism has come at last, an overwhelming opportunity.
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346. CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES
It is necessary that the reader should have a definite idea of the social condition of western Europe in the eighth century.
347. THE RECENT STRUGGLE FOR PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION IN GREAT BRITAIN
British political life resists cleansing with all the vigour of a dirty little boy.
348. MANIFESTATIONS
In the darkness on the table something faintly luminous, a greenish-white patch, stirred and hopped slowly among the dim shapes.
349. THE LOST INHERITANCE
“He was an author, you see, and he wrote a lot of books.”
350. The Spirit of the New World
There presently Gidding joined us and we began to work out the schemes we had made in America, the schemes that now fill my life.
351. THE CHANGE
Everything was as still a
352. The Little Shop at Fishbourne
“Human life isn’t safe with you,” said Mr. Polly as a parting shot.
353. THROUGH A WINDOW
“What the devil!” said Bailey. “Looks as if someone was shooting at him.”
354. THE PLATTNER STORY
Now, that is not the only singularity of Gottfried’s structure, although it is the only one that would appeal to the untrained mind.
355. WOULD SOCIALISM DESTROY THE HOME?
Consider all that amount of pent-up, thwarted or perverted emotional possibility, the sheer irrational waste of life implied….
356. OSTROG
“Yes,” he cried. “It is you. And you are not dead!”
357. THE JILTING OF JANE
“Not engaged, ma’am; but he is saving money to buy a ring—hammyfist.”
358. ANN VERONICA PUTS THINGS IN ORDER
“I don’t know why. But this is like—like walking round a house that looks square and complete and finding an unexpected long wing running out behind.”
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360. THE DOOR IN THE WALL
I forget now what chance comment or criticism of mine moved so reticent a man to confide in me.
361. THE GIANT CHILDREN
“If we were to form a committee of trustworthy people to control the manufacture of Boomfood—Herakleophorbia, I should say—we might—”
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363. THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES
Although he could not look at it, he was suddenly aware that the earth was very near.
364. THE WORLD IN SPACE
The earth, as everybody knows nowadays, is a spheroid, a sphere slightly compressed, orange fashion, with a diameter of nearly 8,000 miles.
365. REDWOOD’S TWO DAYS
The last word the officer heard was Redwood’s high-pitched, “But at least you might tell me if my Son—”
366. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents – THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID
“I have a fancy,” he said over his coffee, “that something is going to happen to me to-day.” He spoke—as he moved and thought—slowly.
367. The Island of Doctor Moreau: X. THE CRYING OF THE MAN
My last remaining strength slipped from me, and my head fell forward on my chest. I think he found a certain satisfaction in giving me brandy.
368. The Trail to the Sea
They tried poor inadequate congratulation….
369. Of Art, of Literature, of Mr. Henry James
“He consults friends—impalpable, intricate, inexhaustible friends.
370. THE CONE
“None of these men of iron have,” he said sententiously. “They have no hearts.”
371. INTRODUCTION
Recently I set myself to put down what I believe.
372. The Coming of the Strange Bird
He tried in vain—such was his state of mind—to remember the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer.
373. MR. DIRECK VISITS MR. BRITLING
“My word,” said Mr. Direck in a good old Farmer Hayseed kind of voice.
374. THE NECESSARY POWERS OF THE LEAGUE
No man can join a partnership and remain an absolutely free man.
375. IN THE ABYSS
“Are you dead certain that clockwork will act?” asked Weybridge presently.
376. The War of the Worlds: Chapter XVII. THE “THUNDER CHILD”
When his eyes were clear again he saw the monster had passed and was rushing landward.
377. The War of the Worlds: Chapter VII. HOW I REACHED HOME
I felt foolish and angry. I tried and found I could not tell them what I had seen. They laughed again at my broken sentences.
378. MR. HOOPDRIVER, KNIGHT ERRANT
“If you don’t want your face sp’iled, Charlie, why don’t you keep your mouth shut?” said the person in gaiters.
379. THE MIND OF A MODERN STATE
You see, my hero in the confused drama of human life is intelligence; intelligence inspired by constructive passion.
380. IN THE MOUNTAINS
“I feel—All this is the rightest of all conceivable things. I want to tell every one. I want to boast myself.”
381. THE REVERSION OF THE BEAST FOLK
“What the Master wishes to kill, the Master kills,” said the Dog-man with a certain satisfaction in his voice.
382. The Time Machine: XIII. The Trap of the White Sphinx
The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work.
383. THE ABASEMENT OF MR. HOOPDRIVER
“WORK. Stop playing at life. Face it like a man.”
384. WRECKAGE
I remember, clearly and coldly and vividly, all that I did that day until the time that I stood weeping and praising God upon the summit of Primrose Hill.
385. THE ARGONAUTS OF THE AIR
“It’s the alterations play the devil with us,” said Monson, biting a paper-fastener.
386. The Last Day of the Visit
He started back from the motionless figure. “Dead!” he said suddenly, and turning, panic stricken, fled headlong through the wood.
387. THE COMING OF THE FOOD
“It’s Hypertrophy—General Hypertrophy.”
388. THE SOUND OF A TUMULT
“Yes—yes,” said Graham, suddenly testy. “But I want—Is it—it is—some years? Many years? There was something—I forget what. I feel—confused. But you—” He sobbed.
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390. THE IMPOSSIBLE POSITION
“Stay it out. I want you to see the fun. I remember—the other time.”
391. THE RECKONING
Once or twice Lewisham misquoted the testimonial—to no purpose. And May was halfway through, and South Kensington was silent. The future was grey.
392. THE DEPARTURE FROM CHICHESTER
“I believe you would,” said Mr. Hoopdriver, admiring her. “You’re plucky enough—goodness knows.”
393. Of the Assembling and Opening of the World Conference on the Mind of the Race
“Aunt Dove demands it. Like celebrating the virginity of Queen Elizabeth….”
394. DEAD LONDON
“Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla,” wailed that superhuman note—great waves of sound sweeping down the broad, sunlit roadway,between the tall buildings on each side.
395. The Time Machine: XIV. The Further Vision
The sky was absolutely black.
396. Settling Down
“It’s—it’s so generous.”
397. The Labour Unrest
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398. THE MAN-MAKING FORCES OF THE MODERN STATE
The average citizen of our great state to-day is, I would respectfully submit, scarcely more than a dirty clout about his own buried talents.
399. The Back of Miss Bathwick and George Boon
He never wrote anything for his public with his own hand.
400. THE INVASION OF THE DRY LAND BY LIFE
No creature can breathe, no creature can digest its food, without water.
401. ALICE HEYDINGER
The previous session—their friendship was now nearly a year old—it had never once dawned upon him that she could possibly be pretty.
402. Crisis
On-161- half a dozen sleepless pillows souls communed with the darkness, and two at least of those pillows were wet with tears.
403. OF LOVE AND JUSTICE
“Justice,” she asserts, “is an instinctive craving very nearly akin to the physical craving for equilibrium. Its social importance corresponds.
404. The Beginning of “The Wild Asses of the Devil”
“I know—I know I’m not. I know…. I’m a devil. A poor, lost, homeless devil.”
405. The First Six Messages from Mr. Cavor
An Abstract of the Six Messages First Received from Mr. Cavor
406. THE STRUGGLE IN THE COUNCIL HOUSE
Graham was the first to speak. His voice was loud and dictatorial. “What is this I hear?” he asked. “Are you bringing negroes here—to keep the people down?”
407. THE END OF THE WAR
The prophet who emerges with the most honour from this war is Bloch.
408. THE CRISIS
“By God!” said Ann Veronica for the first time in her life. “But I will! I will!”
409. THE RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Our history is now approaching our own times, and our study becomes more and more a study of the existing state of affairs.
410. THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS
All the books that constitute the Old Testament were certainly in existence, and in very much their present form, at latest by the year 100 B.C.
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412. THE ENTERTAINMENT OF MR. DIRECK REACHES A CLIMAX
“Of course,” he said, turning to Direck, “Rendezvous is the life and soul of the country.”
413. POLLOCK AND THE PORROH MAN
“Can’t say. They’re versatile people. They know a lot of rum dodges. You’d better get that copper-devil, Shakespear, to talk.”
414. MR. CHAFFERY AT HOME
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415. PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
Who will win—Ostrog or the People? A thousand years hence that will still be just the open question we leave to-day.
416. NATIONS IN LIQUIDATION
Now, as a matter of fact, money is a power only in so far as people believe in it and Governments sustain it.
417. COMMON SENSE AND THE BALKAN STATES
The Balkan States never have been a problem, they have only been a part of a problem.
418. The War of the Worlds: Chapter XI. AT THE WINDOW
“What hasn’t?” In the obscurity I could see he made a gesture of despair. “They wiped us out—simply wiped us out,” he repeated again and again.
419. Some Possible Discoveries
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420. The Endowment of Motherhood
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421. MALIGNITY
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
422. Certain Social Reactions
But how does this fit into the childless, disunited, and probably shifting ménage of our second picture?
423. LOGIC STATIC AND LIFE KINETIC
The current syllogistic logic rests on the assumption that either A is B or it is not B.
424. THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS
Not only is Space from the point of view of life and humanity empty, but Time is empty also.
425. The Valley Of Spiders
Towards mid-day the three pursuers came abruptly round a bend in the torrent bed upon the sight of a very broad and spacious valley.
426. The War of the Worlds: Chapter XV. WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY
Survivors there were none.
427. THE END OF THE OLD ORDER
Graham hesitated, and then walked forward to where the broken verge of wall dropped sheer. He stood looking down, a lonely, tall, black figure against the sky.
428. THE PROBLEM OF THE BIRTH SUPPLY
We blame the popular mind overmuch
429. Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story: Chap 15. THE LAST DAYS AT HOME
They decided to go to Switzerland at the session’s end. “We’ll clean up everything tidy,” said Capes….
430. THE SECOND MAIN GENERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM
His business undertakings would be under limitations his grandfather never knew—even harmless adulterations that merely intensify profit, forbidden him!
431. The Hunting of the Wild Asses of the Devil
“See already the new gravity in people’s faces, the generosities, the pacification of a thousand stupid squabbles——”
432. THORNS AND ROSE PETALS
“I never dreamt,” he said in even tones.
433. THE CLASSIFICATORY ASSUMPTION
A mind nourished on anatomical study is of course permeated with the suggestion of the vagueness and instability of biological species.
434. THE WAR AIMS OF THE WESTERN ALLIES
In some fashion it is now necessary to achieve sufficient human unity to establish a world peace and save the future of mankind.
435. THE GIANT LEAGUER
At last he ventured on. “Here goes,” he said, and roused his machinery to motion again, followed intently by that great white eye.
436. THE UNEXPECTED ANECDOTE OF THE LION
“AS dead. It was one of the luckiest shots I ever fired. And I wasn’t much over nine at the time, neither.”
437. THE REVOLUTION AND FAMINE IN RUSSIA
In 1921 came a drought and a great famine among the peasant cultivators in the war-devastated south-east provinces. Millions of people starved.
438. THE BESETTING OF SEX
My first parliament was the parliament of the Suffragettes.
439. BELTANE AND NEW YEAR’S EVE
Then abruptly we desisted and stood apart—looking at one another.
440. A Telephone Call
“I don’t see why we shouldn’t meet!” said Marjorie.
441. HANDS OFF THE PEOPLE’S FOOD
At the end unless the more prosperous people pull themselves together it will not be like that.
442. MR. BRITLING CONTINUES HIS EXPOSITION
They don’t laugh at you…. At least—they laugh differently….
443. THE RESCUE EXPEDITION
“Nothing,” said Widgery, and aside in her ear: “You really ate scarcely anything, you know.”
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445. THE CONSULTATION
“Friction! I’m like a machine without oil. I’m grinding to death…. And it’s so DAMNED important I SHOULDN’T break down. It’s VITALLY important.”
446. HOW I STOLE THE HEAPS OF QUAP FROM MORDET ISLAND
“We got to make a fight for it,” said my uncle. “We got to face the music!”
447. THE SPLENDOUR OF GREECE
The century and a half that followed the defeat of Persia was one of very great splendour for the Greek civilization.
448. Race in Utopia
No generalisations about race are too extravagant for the inflamed credulity of the present time.
449. War in the Twentieth Century
The great change that is working itself out in warfare is the same change that is working itself out in the substance of the social fabric.
450. The Pilgrimage to Lonely Hut
“We wanted to be alone together. There was too much—over there—too much everything.”
451. A Day with the Popes
The train slowed down for the seventeenth time. Marjorie looked up and read “Buryhamstreet.”
452. The War of the Worlds: Chapter XIV. IN LONDON
“There’s fighting going on about Weybridge” was the extent of their information.
453. AMANDA
Some observant element in his composition guessed, and guessed quite accurately, that she was nineteen….
454. ARTHUR OR OSWALD?
She must not think. She must not think. She must swim like a machine. Like a machine. One…. Two…. One…. Two…. Slow and even.
455. The Curate
“Do you think I am a Man—like yourself? As the chequered man did.”
456. THE MAN’S OWN SHARE
They will in their own time take this world as a sculptor takes his marble and shape it better than all our dreams.
457. Cribs
“Soulful Owner of the Exorbiant Largenial Development.”—An Adam’s Apple being in question.
458. WHY BRITAIN WENT TO WAR
We face, perhaps, the most awful winter that mankind has ever faced.
459. THE APPLE
“I am—by Correspondence—of the London University,” said Mr. Hinchcliff, with irrepressible pride, and feeling nervously at his tie.
460. ON FEAR AND ARISTOCRACY
The interest of him, the absurdity of him, the story of him, is that.
461. THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE
Of course this decision did not flash out complete and finished from the American mind at the beginning of these troubles.
462. The Warp and the Woof of Things
“The strange thing,” said the Angel, “is the readiness of you Human Beings—the zest, with which you inflict pain. Those boys pelting me this morning——”
463. In Truth, the Mastery of Flying Was the Work of Thousands of Men
In truth the mastery of flying was the work of thousands of men—this man a suggestion and that an experiment, until only one vigorous effort was required.
464. EXPOSTULATIONS
“This has almost killed your father…. After Gwen!”
465. NIGHT AND THE OPEN SEA
“This,” it came to me, “is England. That is what I wanted to give in my book. This!”
466. SEVEN CENTURIES IN ASIA (CIRCA 50 B.C. TO A.D. 650)
For a brief time under Odenathus, and then under his widow Zenobia, Palmyra was a considerable state, wedged between the two empires.
467. THE SPIRITED HONEYMOON
“They were traders—and nothing more. Just as we are. And when they were rich they got splendid clothes and feasted and rested. Much as we do.”
468. The Potwell Inn
The gun was certainly in possession of Uncle Jim at that time and no human being but Mr. Polly knows how he got hold of it.
469. THE FIRST BATTLE
The assistant read a list of ‘ologies and ‘ographies. “Fifty resident,” said Mr. Blendershin concisely—“that’s your figure. Sixty, if you’re lucky.”
470. THE WAR OF THE MIND
All the realities of this war are things of the mind.
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473. The Disease of Parliaments
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474. THE GIANT LOVERS
“You are the Princess,” he said. “My father has told me. You are the Princess who was given the Food of the Gods.”
475. The Probable Diffusion of Great Cities
But I find my pen is running ahead, an imagination prone to realistic constructions is struggling to paint a picture altogether prematurely.
476. OF AN ORGANIZED BROTHERHOOD
The idea of organizing the progressive elements in the social chaos into a regular developing force is one that has had a great attraction for me.
477. The Epilogue
“Dear me!” said Mrs Mendham, “How heedless of me! And the cripple’s grave too. But really you’ve no idea how much this monument cost them.”
478. THE PURSUIT OF THE TWO LOVERS
“Thus life has always been,” we said; “thus it will always be.”
479. OF OTHER RELIGIONS
These schemes are true, and also these schemes are false! in the sense that new things, new phrasings, have to replace them.
480. Wilkins makes Certain Objections
“A synthetic God,” said Boon. “If it is to be called a God at all.”
481. HOW MR. HOOPDRIVER WAS HAUNTED
She glanced over her shoulder and saw Hoopdriver. “Damn!” said the other man in brown, quite audibly, starting as he followed her glance.
482. THE PROPHETIC HABIT OF MIND
To begin with, I remember that to me in my boyhood speculation about the Future was a monstrous joke.
483. Mr Cave’s Crystal Egg
There was also, at the moment the story begins, a mass of crystal, worked into the shape of an egg and brilliantly polished.
484. Being the First Chapter of “The Mind of the Race”
“The old, old thing, you see! The weak protest of the living.”
485. Mr. Polly an Orphan
Nobody missed Mr. Polly for a long time.
486. THE FLYING MAN
“‘Right about face,’ I said. ‘Not too close together.’
487. THE GREEKS
The Greek tribes as we have told were a branch of the Aryan- speaking stem.
488. ASSOCIATIONS
There is in this passage one particularly valuable idea, the idea of an association of people to guarantee the welfare of their children in common.
489. FROM THE CROW’S NEST
He turned his eyes to the scene immediately before him again, trying to conceive the big factories of that intricate maze….
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491. SOCIALISM A DEVELOPING DOCTRINE
The first early Socialisms were most various and eccentric upon the question of government and control.
492. My First Flight
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493. The Life-History of Democracy
Now, this age is being constantly described as a “Democratic” age; “Democracy” is alleged to have affected art, literature, trade and religion alike in the most
494. THE POSSIBLE UNIFICATION OF THE WORLD INTO ONE COMMUNITY OF KNOWLEDGE AND WILL
Our history has traced a steady growth of the social and political units into which men have combined.
495. A SEARCHING OF SCHOOLMASTERS
“Time’s against us all,” said Oswald. “I suppose the next glacial age will overtake us long before we’re ready to fight out our destiny.”
496. THE ROOF SPACES
“We want to speak to you, Sire,” said the intruder. “We want—I can’t hold the thing. We have been trying to find a way to you—these three days.”
497. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE UNIVERSE
“We want everything to go on exactly as it did when they were alive,” said Phyllis to Mary.
498. THOUGHT IN THE MODERN STATE
A community that thinks freely and fully throughout its population is capable of a thousand things that are impossible in an unthinking mass of people.
499. YOUNG CADDLES IN LONDON
And one day he stood up, straightened his back, and said in a loud voice, “No!
500. INTRODUCES MR. LEWISHAM
To judge by the room Mr. Lewisham thought little of Love but much on Greatness.
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