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H.G. Wells _ The Time Machine
But to me the future is still black and blank–is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers –shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle–to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.
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H.G. Wells _ The Time Machine
Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.
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H.G. Wells _ The Time Machine
Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a women, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations were mere militant necessities of an age of physical force; where population is balanced and abundant, much child-bearing becomes and evil rather than a blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and off-spring are secure, there is less necessity - indeed there is no necessity - for an effective family, and the specialization of the sexes with reference to their children's needs disappears. We see some beginnings of this even in our own time, and i this future age, it was complete.
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H.G. Wells _ The Time Machine
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble."
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H.G. Wells _ The Time Machine
And with that the Time Traveller began his story as I have set it forth. He sat back in his chair at first, and spoke like a weary man. Afterwards he got more animated.
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H.G. Wells _ The Time Machine
I saw white figures. Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body.
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H.G. Wells _ The Time Machine
Don't follow you,' said Filby.
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H.G. Wells _ The Time Machine
I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness
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H.G. Wells _ The Time Machine
Even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.
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H.G. Wells _ The Time Machine
Ages ago, thousands of generations ago, man had thrust his brother man out of the ease and the sunshine. And now that brother was coming back-changed!
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H.G. Wells _ The Time Machine
Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.
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H.G. Wells _ The Time Machine
Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness.
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