“Mankind in the Making” contained much vigorous criticism and many sensible and practical suggestions. “Anticipations” was a most stimulating book, but so deliberately confined itself to exalting and exaggerating the prospects of a single aspect of life, so exclusively devoted itself to glorifying mechanical and material progress, that those sensitive to our spiritual and aesthetic possibilities might be pardoned for regarding the present order, with all its cruelty, waste, sordidness, and grotesqueness, as a golden age in comparison with Mr. In the “Time Machine” his forecast of the future of humanity was frankly appalling in “When the Sleeper Wakes,” more lurid (albeit far more probable) than the worst imaginings of “reforming” socialists. IT is instructive to watch the growth, both in power and in hopefulness, of Mr.
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