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Overview
A frequent theme of Wells's work, as in his 1901 nonfiction book Anticipations, was the history of humans' mastery of power and energy through technological advance, seen as a determinant of human progress. The novel begins: "The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. . . . Always down a lengthening record, save for a set-back ever and again, he is doing more."(Many of the ideas Wells develops here found a fuller development when he wrote The Outline of History in 1918-1919.)
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- ISBN-13: 9781977735171
- ISBN-10: 1977735177
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: September 2017
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.79 pounds
- Page Count: 266
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