Wells Was a Socialist in a Society That Was Overwhelmingly Monarchist in Sentiment

Wells was irreligious in a society that still played at least lip service to religion. He never suffered a moment's inconvenience for his publicly expressed views. But it never seemed to occur to him how historically usuall it was to live in a society in which this was possible. Socialists such as wells are optimists, almost by definition, in the sense that they that the schemes they propose will produce a great leap in human happiness and even improvement in human character. They believe that man is fundamentally good, but morally deformed by the circumstances in which he finds himself. This view has a perennial plausibility, because societies are always very imperfect. There is always injustice to be found,