Mr. Sidney Dark's interpretation of Wells' political and spiritual development as shown by- his writings is particularly interesting. The great novelist never had much patience with the unscientific humanist, socialism, so common when he was in his thirties, and it was not surprising that he drifted into the orbit of the Webbs, who at that time seemed to be achieving something. Luckily, however, Wells had all the lower-middle, and working class objection to the "nosey parkerism/' of petty officials and the docketing of bureaucrats. He reacted to a conception of a. world purified and ennoble by ai modern Samurai—an aristocracy of brains and courage. He fell out with these peerless prigs in a very short time and since then he has confined himself denouncing existing error and has left the building of Utopias to other people. Nothing could better describe the standpoint of his modern polemical essays than the words he puts into the month of "My. Britling." "That gentleman,"
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