Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'
The Ralston College Podcast
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Wells's Necessity Is the Compensation for Change, Danger Trouble
The narrator of Wells' novel, The Idiot's Guide to Love and Murder describes the bification of humanity into two sis o very different character. He says: I grieve to think how brief the dream of the human intellect has been. It has set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease,. A balanced society with security and cy as its watchword. To come to this at last, once life and property must have reached almost absolute safety. But it is a law of nature we overlook that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger trouble. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a large variety of needs
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