H. G. Wells quote about strength from The Time Machine - Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.
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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.
 H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895). copy citation

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Author H. G. Wells
Source The Time Machine
Topic strength weakness need security
Date 1895
Language English
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“The ruddy sunset set me thinking of the sunset of mankind. For the first time I began to realize an odd consequence of the social effort in which we are at present engaged. And yet, come to think, it is a logical consequence enough. Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life—the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure—had gone steadily on to a climax. One triumph of a united humanity over Nature had followed another.” source

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