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còme; *‘W hen the Sleeper wakes”, devëlôps the early results. Those
lolloping, oh about Two hundred years of our present te n d è n z a ,
•and the “Time Machine” carries it further. T oth books are. scien
tific and absolutely logical. The latter displays the author’s kinship
tó D arw in anfr'TIuxley in his development of the theory di evo
lution. The earth, as in the beginning, in itfe last'Stages,. creates
too much carbon dioxide^ allowing thereby only amphibians tfe'lsur-
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' W ells is undeniably a 'socialist,- but n o t o f 'the type to- which
U pton Sinclair belongs,. The latter maintains • that th e ; rich sup
press the poof and do evil intentionally. On the other hand, W ells
•declares that th e w ealthy class are parash w C ausing injury ^ -o th e rs.
•He ‘i s a Tabiah for though he accepts -socialism and Wishes it success
he has little faith in. its possibilities. In all his books ’the ideâ.1 <
states of-society he pictures are purely socialistic b u t they beCoihe
So, n o f'th ro u g h natural causes-, legislatures o f revolutions, but
’through supernatural agencies. As, “In the Days Of the 'Comet,
before th is ideal state Could be realized, a Oomet was -utilized to
strike the earth, em itting a- grben vapoFwhich cleared the w orld Of
a ll its jealousies, Unmeaning contentions-and cruelties, whereupon
a new socialistic order of things grew up. -
' • ^ 'lo g ic a l theme of WeTls’’ is th a t our form of life, of evolution,
is' m ere acddefof in the p ro cès^ It Vs n o t complete in itself, not
permanent. There is no reason, thereforhyfo believe that'-other
planets have a tifo similar to. ours. b .
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In his “ Message from M ars” he formulates the theory' that
that planet has a greater eivïîi'zâtion than ours. H e conjectures
th at Mars is like a great ant hill Within which the M artians, a -sex-
W s ? a c é , live. ■ T h eib ts no useless expenditure of physical energy
dm ohg "¿ehi | | th e people have Uo' dlgWtive system, no bones,
b u t a framework ofocilrca and are patarites, living upon th e bloOd-of
in te r ' Ufiimalsr T h u s they do ndt need sleep to r e c u p e r a ^ th en
systems, and are active through tw enty ¿four bouts. The sam e‘econ
omy of l# e forces produces laborèrs bred to be all muscle, c h e n u s^
all n ó s t afid the fearers all brain. O n reaching earth th ey remorse
lessly exterminated its peoples, us useless, in f e r i i beings, fey th ro w
ing huge shells which exploding discharge a gas, deadly fatal.
In his works, W ells offers ho practical solution fo r the evils he
éèeb hs ' hd rè a prónOUftbed skeptic. ‘Thè rich Will Continue 1 to