WASTE AND RUIN
A DANGEROUS WORLD. ‘‘ CI V.I LISATION COLLAPSING. ” LONDON, May 12. “Like Noah, we must build an ark, aiuid the waste and ruin around,” declares Air. H. 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,” Air. Wells said. “Ono 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 some thing breaks down. It is impossible to say how far the ruin will extend. “The social, pc’itieal and economic, sciences aro struggling hard to overtake the rapi<l collapse,”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 117, 20 May 1932, Page 7
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