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1939

MR. WELLS SEES IT

and

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the abysmal paradoxical and original indeed. the religious and so- "It seemed to us then that our ons that allowed me world would probably freeze up in to the hopeless drud-Ja few millions of years, but we op-ignorant, under-thought humanity might see and do ysically undeveloped tremendous things. We knew the 18 to sink or swim. broad outline of the history of life, joung to make allow- but the world as we saw it then people who exploiting knew nothing of the radio, and the me. It was not true ideas about atoms were naive in

wilfully keeping me the extreme. st trod on me. I hat-

• the young can hate.

"We doubted if aviation were

“Aviation and radio communica- tion have abolished distance. In 1888 unity of the world as one com- munity was a remote aspiration; now it is an imperative necessity. Man is breaking through to clear- er knowledge from a jungle of men- tal confusion and instinctive ro- sistance, and beyond that jungle lie power and freedom.

"Of the wonders of the days to come I am only too acutely aware

possible, or electrical traction. We that as yet very few people realise

the

the actual nature of our circum- stances to-day. Most of our world

the days of want, suspicion, greed, the ideas of the past, the ideas of

separation, and conflict from which we might now be emerging.

I will confess that I associated submarines with ion and distortion of fantasies of. Jules Verne, and I dislike nothing else thought his 'Round the World in is still living in accordance with the modern world it 80 Days' was an extraordinary to murdering a child dream. Our interpretation of the cripple its mind. By mental' processes áre trivial and good luck. I caught shallow beyond comparison with orary knowledge in what we have now. As I compare

few years. In seven the world as I saw it then (50 years "Still, I find it difficult to learn was 21 I contrived ago) with the world of to-day, I all that is going on, and I realise years of almost con-realise how the picture has un- that most of the youngsters, who? three of which were folded. And the world as I see it are 50 years younger than I am, llege of Science, and to-day is more marvellous, myster- must be feeling almost more acute- ley, Darwin's friend. ious, and profound than we con-ly than I did the anger of frustra-

ceived it then.

R. PICTURE

I saw it became

IMMENSE ENLIGHTENMENT

tion, the feeling of being kept out of things, of being kept back from things, and being "wasted, from their own ignorance and the ignor- ter and finer than "Concerning affairs on this earth, ance of others. How far are their icture I had in the and the more immediate concerns eyes being bandaged by inadequate we travel at our of life, our enlightenment has been [doctrines and outworn prejudices? the ages of 14 and immense. Thanks largely to Freud, Are they permitted either to see the years remain in my there has been a tremendous ad-immense dangers or immense op- the time I was put-vance in our self-knowledge; our portunities that surround them? an immense jigsaw motives and impulses, and our "The world of mankind to-day is knowledge of mass thought and first and foremost a world inform- saw my world not mass action. is far more lucid. The ed but misinformed, blinded by old see it to-day. There powers, and possibilities of human traditions, hatreds, imaginary dif- t of corrections and effort are enormously greater, and ferences, and needless fears, in a

othing like the fun-still they increase.

world of glorious promise." ictions. In 1881, I "So far as material conditions universe and mango, the world can be organised now m nothingness to-to provide every living soul with 3. We students talk-abundant food and housing and

fourth dimensions, leisure. We have passed, in student I wrote an single lifetime, through general ing time with the neediness throughout the world to on, I thought I was possible plenty for all.

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