Perspectives; H.G. Wells

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Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the “father of science fiction”, along with Jules Verne.
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“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”

“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.”

“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”

“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.”

“It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.”

“What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?”

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s thoughts.”
 
Interesting!
Nowadays his earlier books are likely far more read than the later. Early on, he concentrated on the story, with a little ideology; later the story was just a prop for the ideology.
 
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CelticWarlord:
“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”
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I wonder what he would think of revisionist history now taking place… 🤔
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He’d say “they are practicing revisionist history all wrong. Here is the proper way to twist history for ideological purposes”.
 
Crux Ansata , subtitled ’ An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church’ by H. G. Wells

“Crux Ansata” is perhaps the last book Wells wrote. It is an attack on the Catholic Church, giving a detailed history, including WW2.

You seldom see a history of the Church from an explicitly secularist viewpoint. Whether you agree with Wells or not, he does at least illustrate where the secular anger is.

Even though he lived in a then Anglican country, he had no illusions about who the real, permanent enemy of secularism is.

In our time 99 percent of attacks on Religion are attacks on the Catholic Church and its hierarchy. You may not have heard of this book, but you have been affected by people who read it.
 
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Wells’ last book (a very short one) was MIND AT THE END OF ITS TETHER. Only 34 pages, published in 1945.

CRUX ANSATA was published in 1943, a somewhat longer book (96 pages).
 
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