Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'
The Ralston College Podcast
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Wells's View of Humanity
Welles was a misanthrope, even if his misanthropy arose from a kind of disappointment a humanity's weakness and folly by comparison with what it really ought to have been like. He believed in technocrocy to solve mankind's problems. Having received an early scientific training, his first tutor was actually th huxley darwinsr bulldog. Wells remained all his life very interested in science, and often appeared gung ho in his appreciation of the wonders it would work for humanity. There was no problem that did not have a technical solution.
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