Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'
The Ralston College Podcast
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Tono Banga - A Novel by Wells
Wells, a man of great brilliance, contained, if not multitudes, though certainly more thana whitman, at least deeply and irreconcilably different mental tendencies and philosophical tendencies. There was an official part of his mind that put straightforward supposed rational arguments, mostly about the betterments of society and his fellow men. But at a much deeper level, he was very pessimistic. And i would say, being pessimistic myself more realistic. This disjunction, which so many people fail to recognize in themselves, is pregnant with disastrous consequences. I leave you now with the thought that wells's last book, the year before the eightieth year of his age, was titled schopenh
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