CIVILISATION ENDING.
Mr H. G. Wells Surveys World Ruin. 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 complexioned, 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. “We 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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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 456, 18 May 1932, Page 1
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