The Works of H. G. Wells, Volumen22

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Charles Scribner's sons, 1926

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Página 501 - Some day he will triumph. . . . But it is not fair to say that he causes all things now. It is not fair to make out a case against him. You have been misled. It is a theologian's folly. God is not absolute; God is finite. ... A finite God who struggles in his great and comprehensive way as we struggle in our weak and silly way — Who is with us — that is the essence of all real religion. ... I agree with you so — Why ! if I thought there was an omnipotent God who looked down on battles and deaths...
Página 330 - England was the last place in which English energy was spent. These hedges, these dilatory roads were full of associations. There was a road that turned aside near Market Saffron to avoid Turk's wood; it had been called Turk's wood first in the fourteenth century after a man of that name. He quoted Chesterton's happy verses to justify these winding lanes. " The road turned first towards the left, Where Perkin's quarry made the cleft; The path turned next towards the right, Because the mastiff used...
Página 541 - Let us pledge ourselves to service. Let us set ourselves with all our minds and all our hearts to the perfecting and working out of the methods of democracy and the ending for ever of the kings and emperors and priestcrafts and the bands of adventurers, the traders and owners and forestallers who have betrayed mankind into this morass of hate and blood — in which our sons are lost — in which we flounder still.... " How feeble was this squeak of exhortation! It broke into a scolding note. "Who...
Página 501 - But the common sense of men knows better. Every real religious thought denies it. After all, the real God of the Christians is Christ, not God Almighty; a poor mocked and wounded God nailed on a cross of matter. . . . Some day He will triumph. . . . But it is not fair to say that He causes all things now. It is not fair to make out a case against him. You have been misled. It is a theologian's folly. God is not absolute; God is finite.
Página 67 - ... apprehended, and do not so much end as are abandoned. Hugh struck him as being more speculative and detached than any American college youth of his age that he knew — but that might not be a national difference but only the Britling strain. He seemed to have read more, and more independently, and to be doing less. And he was rather more restrained and self-possessed. Before Mr. Direck could begin a proper inquiry into the young man's work and outlook, he had got the conversation upon America....
Página 84 - They grow more. But they blunder more. Life ceases to be a discipline and becomes an experiment. . . ." " That's very true," said Mr. Direck, to whom it seemed the time was ripe to say something. " This is the problem of America perhaps even more than of England. Though I have not had the parental experience you have undergone. ... I can see very clearly that a son is a very serious proposition." " The old system of life was organisation. That is where Germany is still the most ancient of European...
Página 539 - Presence of which he had thought very many times in the last few weeks, a Presence so close to him that it was behind his eyes and in his brain and hands. It was no trick of his vision; it was a feeling of immediate reality. And it was> I Hugh, Hugh that he had thought was dead, it was young...
Página 373 - Those men in the airship ? — he was coming to that. He found himself asking himself whether it was possible for a human being to do any cruel act without an excuse — or, at least, without the feeling of excusability. And in the case of these Germans and the outrages they had committed and the retaliations they had provoked, he perceived that always there was the element of a perceptible if inadequate justification. Just as there would be if presently he were to maltreat a fallen German airman....
Página 12 - His was a naturally irritable mind; this gave him point and passion; and moreover he had a certain obstinate originality and a generous disposition. So that he was always lively, sometimes spacious, and never vile. He loved to write and talk. He talked about everything, he had ideas about everything; he could no more help having ideas about everything than a dog can resist smelling at your heels.
Página 36 - It's a county of new notice-boards and barbed-wire fences; there's always a policeman round the corner. They dress for dinner. They dress for everything. If a man gets up in the night to look for a burglar he puts on the correct costume — or doesn't go. They've got a special scientific system for urging on their tramps. And they lock up their churches on a week-day. Half their soil is hard chalk or a rationalistic sand, only suitable for bunkers and villa foundations. And they play golf in a large,...

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