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A renowned English writer, often called the "father of science fiction," whose works explored futuristic concepts and societal impacts of technology.
1. A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON
"I dream very little," I answered. "I doubt if I have three vivid dreams in a year."
2. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANITY
A religious system so many-faced and so enduring as Christianity must necessarily be saturated with truth even if it be not wholly true.
3. My Friend Stumbled on an Invention That Could Revolutionize Human Life
Certainly, if ever a man found a guinea when he was looking for a pin it is my good friend Professor Gibberne.
4. Divorce
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5. THREE DAYS
“There is, I believe,” said Lincoln. “But for you—! If you would like to occupy yourself with that, we can make you a sworn aeronaut to-morrow.”
6. THE PRIMITIVE ARYANS
These Nordic people were destined to play a very important part indeed in the world’s history.
7. The Story of the Last Trump
“Now to God the Father, God the Son——”
8. The Possible Collapse of Civilisation
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9. THE FIRST SEAGOING PEOPLES
Cnossos was not so much a town as a great palace for the Cretan monarch and his people.
10. EGYPT, BABYLON AND ASSYRIA
We are entering now upon a thousand years of warfare between the once quite separated civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Nile.
11. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE
The earliest rocks in the record are called by geologists the Azoic rocks, because they show no traces of life.
12. THE FIRST TRUE MEN
These first real human beings we know of in Europe appear already to have belonged to one or other of at least two very distinct races.
13. THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIALISM
In that spirit, and with no presumption of finality, this little book of explanations is given to the world.
14. SERFS, SLAVES, SOCIAL CLASSES, AND FREE INDIVIDUALS
On the whole, the common men were probably well content to live under lord or king or god and obey their bidding.
15. THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING
“Dark and damnable,” said the old man suddenly. “Dark and damnable. Turned out of my room among all these dangers.”
16. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE
About 200 centuries ago or earlier, real men of our own species, if not of our own race, came drifting into the European area.
17. PRIMITIVE NEOLITHIC CIVILIZATIONS
We have to remember that human races can all interbreed freely and that they separate, mingle and reunite as clouds do.
18. GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS
Like the early Aryan life, it was a life in a sort of family-tribe household.
19. THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES
Priests are not very much in evidence, but there is a sort of medicine man who deals in spells and prophecy.
20. THE LAST BABYLONIAN EMPIRE AND THE EMPIRE OF DARIUS I
Even under the Assyrian monarchs and especially under Sardanapalus, Babylon had been a scene of great intellectual activity.
21. THE COMING OF THE DAY
To-night all over the world ships must be in flight and ships pursuing; ten thousand towns must be ringing with the immediate excitement of war....
22. Socialism and The Family
The Socialist movement is an item in an altogether different scale.
23. THE WEAR AND TEAR OF EPISCOPACY
He came to Princhester an innocent and trustful man.
24. CHANGES IN THE WORLD’S CLIMATE
It must be borne in mind that great changes of climate have always been in progress, that have sometimes stimulated and sometimes checked life.
25. REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM
It was Karl Marx who brought the second great influx of suggestion into the intellectual process of Socialism.
26. THE NEANDERTHALER AND THE RHODESIAN MAN
Mentally and physically they were upon a different line from the human line.
27. THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS
The settled folk had the weight of numbers on their side; the herdsmen might raid and loot, but they could not stay.
28. THE FIRST MAIN GENERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM
And who can doubt the amount of mental and moral dwarfing that is going on side by side with this physical shortage?
29. THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME
Astronomers and geologists and those who study physics have been able to tell us something of the origin and history of the earth.
30. MONKEYS, APES AND SUB-MEN
Now the past history of the Primates is one very difficult to decipher in the geological record.
31. SECESSION
There came another silence. “It's all gone so differently,” she said. “Everything has gone so differently.”
32. The Human Adventure
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33. A PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF MEN
I seem to be a consciousness, vague and insecure, placed between two worlds.
34. PRIMITIVE NOMADIC PEOPLES
For settlement under the conditions of the primitive civilizations men needed a constant water supply and warmth and sunshine.
35. THE RACES OF MANKIND
It is necessary now to discuss plainly what is meant by a phrase, used often very carelessly, “The Races of Mankind.”
36. FREE WILL AND PREDESTINATION
I glance at this question rather to express a detachment than a view.
37. PROMINENT PEOPLE
“The King doesn’t belong. They had to expel him. It’s the Stuart blood, I suppose; but really—”
38. The American Population
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39. THE IMMIGRANT
These are all mitigations of the outlook, but still the dark shadow of disastrous possibility remains.
40. SUMERIA, EARLY EGYPT AND WRITING
About the same time, for chronology is still vague, the great history of Egypt was beginning.
41. AT THIS POINT A DISPUTE ARISES
Such arguments are not to be swept aside with a wave of the hand.
42. THE NEW HAROUN AL RASCHID
His definition of Prejudice impressed White as being the most bloodless and philosophical formula that ever dominated the mind of a man.
43. “AS THE WIND BLOWS.”
“Tu, nisi ventis Debes ludibrium, cave.”
44. IN THE SILENT ROOMS
“Thi Man huwdbi Kin” forced itself on him as “The Man who would be King.”
45. THE AGE OF REPTILES
Amidst this spreading vegetation of the lower plains the reptiles were increasing mightily in multitude and variety.
46. EXEGETICAL
“My faith in God grows,” he said.
47. THE WORLD OF FACT
Fact expresses for me something in its nature primary and unanalyzable.
48. THE UNDER-SIDE
“She might have done better with herself than that,” said Asano.
49. THE BEING OF MANKIND
Let me point out that this is no sentimental or mystical statement. It is hard fact as any hard fact we know.
50. PRIMITIVE THOUGHT
The sources to which scientific men have gone in their attempts to reconstruct that primitive mentality are very various.
51. BELIEFS
I draw my beliefs exactly as an artist draws lines to make a picture, to express my impression of the world and my purpose.
52. THE SCANDALOUS RAMBLE
“It’s perfectly splendid. Of all the fine weather the best has been kept for now. My last day. My very last day.”
53. LOVE AFTER THE CHANGE
I went toward them, and all the perspectives of my reconstructed universe altered as I did so.
54. THE SPIRIT OF GAIN AND THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE
The gift for getting is the supreme gift—all others bow before it.
55. NEOLITHIC MAN IN EUROPE
Neolithic men came slowly into Europe from the south or south-east as the reindeer and the open steppes gave way to forest and modern European conditions.
56. THE HIGH CROSS PREPARATORY SCHOOL
“And if I might make so bold as to add a ’arf bottle of good Guinness, m’lady. It’s a tonic. Run down as you are.”
57. IN THE NEW FOREST
“You are, I perceive, cycling through this delightful country,” said the clergyman.
58. ADOLESCENCE
All this was a thing apart from the rest of my life, a locked avoided chamber....
59. The Island of Doctor Moreau: IV. AT THE SCHOONER’S RAIL
“Whatever you tell me, you may rely upon my keeping to myself—if that’s it.”
60. INTRODUCTION
The 'nineties was a good and stimulating period for a short-story writer.
61. The New Phase
Their eyes met, and there was singularly little tenderness in their eyes.
62. Beginning Again
My words were far too unexpected for Tarvrille to understand. "The flies," I repeated with an air of explanation.
63. THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND
The first languages were probably small collections of such words; they consisted of interjections and nouns.
64. THE WORLD IN TIME
At last a condition of things must have been attained in which a man might have stood up on earth and looked about him and lived.
65. The Mystery of the Stolen Body
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66. Imagine a Sphere Large Enough to Hold Two People
“Imagine a sphere,” he explained, “large enough to hold two people and their luggage.
67. THE RESUMPTION OF METAPHYSICAL ENQUIRY
Since then the world never effectually reopened these questions until the modern period.
68. Mr. Ledbetter's Notorious Vacation
My friend, Mr. Ledbetter, is a round-faced little man, whose natural mildness of eye is gigantically exaggerated.
69. THE PEOPLE MARCH
“You are the Master of the Earth. You are owner of the world.”
70. The So-Called Science of Sociology
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71. THE LEAGUE MUST BE REPRESENTATIVE
Half a world peace is better than none.
72. The Schoolmaster and the Empire
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74. THE LORD OF THE DYNAMOS
Azuma-zi, however, shirked the discussion of his gods, even though he was kicked for it.
75. This Is a Story of a Time beyond the Memory of Man
A Story of the Stone Age is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history.
76. THE ANCESTRY OF MAN
Among all the apes and monkeys, the only group that have their great toes developed on anything like the same fashion as man are some of the lemurs.
77. The Island of Doctor Moreau: VIII. THE CRYING OF THE PUMA
“The devil you do!” said he. “What an ass I was to mention it to you! I might have thought. Anyhow, it will give you an inkling of our—mysteries. Whiskey?”
78. THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND
"A man," one said, in hardly recognisable Spanish—"a man it is—a man or a spirit—coming down from the rocks."
79. THE MINIMIFICENCE OF MR. BENSINGTON
When they got back to Mr. Carrington he was sitting up, dazed and weak, but able to warn them against the danger in the pool.
80. THE WAY TO CONCRETE REALIZATION
Fantastic as they are, they have played a large part in reducing the Hague Tribunal to an ineffective squeak amidst the thunders of this war.
81. WRITING
The door is not half open; the light is but a light new lit. Our world to-day is only in the beginning of knowledge.
82. The War in South Africa
I remember I felt singularly unwanted.
83. The Angel's Debut
"Did you really make that up yourself?" said Mrs Jehoram, sparkling her eyes at him, "as you went along. Really, it is wonderful! Nothing less than wonderful."
84. Boyhood
I was a Harbury boy as my father and grandfather were before me and as you are presently to be.
85. The War of the Worlds: Chapter XIII. HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE
“I was walking through the roads to clear my brain,” he said. “And suddenly—fire, earthquake, death!”
86. The War of the Worlds: Chapter V. THE HEAT-RAY
“What ugly brutes!” he said. “Good God! What ugly brutes!” He repeated this over and over again.
87. SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES
No doubt he ventured at first as a fisherman, having learnt the elements of seacraft in creeks and lagoons.
88. The Time Machine: V. In the Golden Age
All were clad in the same soft, and yet strong, silky material.
89. THE ENVOY
The gate closes upon him with a slam, and he vanishes from our ken.
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91. Mrs Jehoram's Breadth of View
"The lunatic! Very likely. These half-witted people.... My dear, I don't think I shall ever forget that dreadful encounter. Yesterday."
92. IN THE GALLERY OF OLD IRON
So it was Lewisham enrolled his first ally in the cause of the red tie—of the red tie and of the Greatness that was presently to come.
93. THE BOY GROWS UP
“His heart failed him.
94. THE BEGINNINGS OF CULTIVATION
The pre-human age is called the “Older Palæolithic;” the age of true men using unpolished stones in the “Newer Palæolithic.
95. MISS HEYDINGER’S PRIVATE THOUGHTS
“Pretty, pretty, pretty—that is our business. What man hesitates in the choice? He goes his own way, thinks his own thoughts, does his own work ...
96. WAR
No one has a use now for such superannuated things.
97. HOME!
A critical little girl eyed our couple curiously and made some remark to her ragamuffin friend.
98. The Island of Doctor Moreau: XVII. A CATASTROPHE
Scarcely six weeks passed before I had lost every feeling but dislike and abhorrence for this infamous experiment of Moreau’s.
99. THE AWAKENING OF MR. HOOPDRIVER
“Beastly cheap, after all, this suit does look, in the sunshine.”
100. Doctors
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101. The Island of Doctor Moreau: III. THE STRANGE FACE
“Confound you!” said Montgomery. “Why the devil don’t you get out of the way?”
102. OF THE ARTIFICIAL IN MAN, AND OF THE ZEITGEIST
She still scarcely realises, you see, the scrape she has got into.
103. THE STORY OF THE LATE MR. ELVESHAM
"What a career such a man might have!" he said. "It fills me with envy to think how I have accumulated that another man may spend——
104. The Island of Doctor Moreau: VII. THE LOCKED DOOR
“I’m itching to get to work again—with this new stuff,” said the white-haired man, nodding towards the enclosure. His eyes grew brighter.
105. "THE WHITE MAN'S BURTHEN"
The ghosts of the thirst-tormented Hereros rise up in their thousands from the African dust, protesting.
106. The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost
“Caught a ghost, did you?” said Sanderson. “Where is it?”
107. Traffic and Rebuilding
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108. The Trouble of the Barbed Wire
So, ingloriously, ended the Angel's first and last appearance in Society.
109. THE ENCOUNTER AT STONEHENGE
“Talking wanton nonsense.... Any professional archaeologist would laugh, simply laugh....”
110. THE LATER POSTGLACIAL PALÆOLITHIC MEN, THE FIRST TRUE MEN
Now here again, with every desire to be plain and explicit with the reader, we have still to trouble him with qualified statements and notes of interrogation.
111. THE NEW WORLD
“Your servant, your most humble helper in God (your God),
112. AN INTERLUDE
“Unspeakable cad! My dear girl! Possible I AM an unspeakable cad. Who wouldn't be—for you?”
113. The Island of Doctor Moreau: XII. THE SAYERS OF THE LAW
It was a thick voice, with something in it—a kind of whistling overtone—that struck me as peculiar; but the English accent was strangely good.
114. The Time Traveller Returns
“It seems a pity to let the dinner spoil,” said the Editor of a well-known daily paper; and thereupon the Doctor rang the bell.
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117. The Night of the Strange Bird.
That is as much as anyone can tell you of the glare upon Sidderford Moor and the alleged music therewith.
118. THE SWORD OF PEACE
Europe is at war!
119. The Ideal Citizen
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120. The Secret Behind Mr. Brisher's Treasure
“Yes—buried wealth—treasure trove. It wasn't more than a foot deep, not the top of it."
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122. The Time Machine: Epilogue
He may even now—if I may use the phrase—be wandering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline seas of the Triassic Age.
123. THE PURSUIT
They did not look round, and he kept them just within sight, getting down if he chanced to draw closely upon them round a corner.
124. Delia
As Crump would tell you, people do not do that kind of thing unless there is something wrong with the nervous system.
125. LADY HARDY
He was a man of extensive reservations. His private life was in some respects exceptionally private.
126. THE NEED OF A NEW MAP OF EUROPE
That is why I think we liberal English should draw our new map of Europe now, first of all on paper and then upon the face of the earth.
127. THE AGE OF THE COAL SWAMPS
Plants no doubt preceded animal forms in this invasion of the land, but the animals probably followed up the plant emigration very closely.
128. Lady Hammergallow's View
"Mr Hilyer, I protest. I know. Not anything you can say will alter my opinion one jot. Don't try. I never suspected you were nearly such an interesting man."
129. Mary Writes
Ours was to be in the first place a world literature.
130. GRAHAM SPEAKS HIS WORD
“This is the girl who told us what Ostrog had done,” he said.
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134. The Philosopher's Public Library
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135. Of not liking Hallery and the Royal Society for the Discouragement of Literature
“Ordinary people snuggle up to God as a lost leveret in a freezing wilderness might snuggle up to a Siberian tiger….
136. THE TREASURE IN THE FOREST
The other man had been in the fore part of the canoe, closely scrutinising the land. He had a sheet of yellow paper on his knee.
137. THE SYNTHETIC MOTIVE
Different people, of differing temperament and tradition, have sought oneness, this steadying and universalizing thing, in various manners.
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