THIS WORLD OF OURS
BRIGHTER BUT MORE DANGEROUS LONDON, May 12. “Like Noah, we must build an ark, amid the waste and ruin around,” declares Mr 11. G. Wells, the author. Dapper, and pink complcxioned, with not a trace of grey hairs, he was harrowing the intellectuals of the London School of Economics with a picture of rapidly-collapsing civilisation. “ You students may be shot, maimed, smashed, scourged, and starved before your lives are over,” Mr Wells said. “ One thing is certain, you will never be bored. It is now impossible to imagine how stable the world seemed in the Victorian days. “ Wo are living in a brighter but more dangerous world. Civilisation is visibly collapsing. Every week something breaks down. It is impossible to say how far the ruin will extend.
“The social, political, and economic sciences are struggling hard to overtake the rapid collapse.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21649, 20 May 1932, Page 7
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