“ We have to invent a sort of life where men can live and breed, and be sufficiently secure to bring the children up. ”
H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898). copy citation
| Author | H. G. Wells |
|---|---|
| Source | The War of the Worlds |
| Topic | life living |
| Date | 1898 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36/36-h/36-h.htm |
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“and yet he had already formulated a situation that I had scarcely realised.
“What are you doing?” I said presently. “What plans have you made?”
He hesitated.
“Well, it’s like this,” he said. “What have we to do? We have to invent a sort of life where men can live and breed, and be sufficiently secure to bring the children up. Yes—wait a bit, and I’ll make it clearer what I think ought to be done. The tame ones will go like all tame beasts; in a few generations they’ll be big, beautiful, rich-blooded, stupid—rubbish! The risk is that we who keep wild will go savage—degenerate into a sort of big, savage rat.”
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