Can we doubt that presently our race will more than realize our boldest imaginations, that it will achieve unity and peace, and that our children will live in a world made more splendid and lovely than any palace or garden than we know, going from strength to strength in an ever-widening circle of achievements? What man has done, the little triumphs of his present state...form but the prelude to the things that man has yet to do.
H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World (1937)
The cold-blooded massacres of the defenseless, the return of deliberate and organized torture, mental torment, and fear to a world from which such things had seemed well nigh banished--has come near to breaking my spirit altogether... "Homo Sapiens,"as he as been pleased to call himself, is played out.
H.G. Wells, A Mind at the End of Its Tether (1946)
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