#HG WELLS FIRST MAN ON THE MOON PLUS#

Wells’ writings also detail his conversion from theism to Darwinism.

From devout Christian to Darwinian atheist 4 One of his specializations was predicting the future-which not only expressed itself in his science fiction, but also in such books as Anticipations (1902-reprinted in 1999), Mankind in the Making (1903), A Modern Utopia (1905) and A Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945), the last a work in which he expressed the bleakest pessimism ever presented in any of his books about humankind’s future. While he started out writing science fiction, he soon moved on to write books that would help solve what Wells concluded were society’s ‘deepening social perplexities’.

#HG WELLS FIRST MAN ON THE MOON PLUS#

3įor many years, Wells wrote as many as two books a year (a considerable literary output), plus articles in such journals as The Fortnightly Review. 2 Both The Outline and Science of Life went into great detail to defend the Darwinist worldview. The Outline of History alone has sold over two million copies. His best-selling (and still in print) Outline of History (1920), and the four-volume The Science of Life (1931), in which he and his eldest son, George Phillip Wells, collaborated with Sir Julian Huxley, sold very well. He also published much general fiction, and later branched out into other areas, including history and science. Wells soon became a writer and, in his long career, authored over 100 books, including such classic best-selling science fiction (a genre he largely invented) as The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and The First Man on the Moon (1901). He also married his cousin Isabel the same year. After teaching in private schools for four years, in 1891 Wells began teaching college-level courses. His doctoral thesis from London University was titled: ‘The Quality of Illusion in the Continuity of the Individual Life in the Higher Metazoa with Particular Reference to the Species Homo sapiens’. Wells completed his Bachelor of Science with first class honours in zoology and second class honours in geology. 1 Although from a poor family, Wells (born in Bromley, Kent, England, on 21 September 1866) studied at the Normal School of Science in South Kensington under Darwin’s chief disciple, Thomas Henry Huxley. Some historians claim that he changed the mind of Europe and the world, and for this reason, Wells was called the ‘great sage’ of his time.

Herbert George (H.G.) Wells was one of the most well-known and important late 19th- and early 20th-century science fiction and science writers in the English-speaking world. Despite all the hopes in science, the end must be “darkness still”.’ Wells’ life abundantly illustrates the bankruptcy of consistently applied Darwinism. He envisioned a time when all crime would be punished by death because ‘People who cannot live happily and freely in the world without spoiling the lives of others are better out of it.’ He was hailed as an ‘apostle of optimism’ but died an ‘infinitely frustrated’ and broken man, concluding that ‘mankind was ultimately doomed and that its prospect is not salvation, but extinction. The diseased, deformed and insane, together with ‘those swarms of blacks, and brown, and dirty-white, and yellow people … will have to go’ in order to create a scientific utopia. The weak should be killed by the strong, having ‘no pity and less benevolence’. Wells advocated a level of eugenics that was even more extreme than Hitler’s. Wells converted from devout Christian to devout Darwinist and spent the rest of his life proselytizing for Darwin and eugenics. After being exposed to Darwinism in school, H.G.

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