FATE OF HUMANITY
• MR H. G. WELLS’S IDEAS ADDRESS TO SCIENTISTS CANBERRA, Jan. 12. Mr H. G. Wells, addressing the Science Congress, declared that unless humanity made a mighty effort of adjustment it could not escape either self-destruction as a species or modification into a more wary, combative, and malignant type, tough and hard-hearted enough to maintain itself for a longer or shorter age on a war-devastated planet. “ Either we adapt, and set ourselves to learn and organise our adaptation, or the genus homo will culminate in an exterminating conqueror living in caverns and fortifications, with no arts but the arts of war and a collection of murderous official secrets in place of science,” said Mr Wells.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 13
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