The Time MachineEssay Preview: The Time MachineReport this essayTime travel is a dream of science fiction. Though it has not yet been achieved except through literary composition, H.G. Wells theorized that the future would not portray the human race in a positive aspect. In The Time Machine, the Time Traveler hints that the future for the human race is in jeopardy of extinction. He proposes that life on Earth declines as a reciprocal of Darwins evolution. This socially damning prediction of the human race is based on the authors belief that human intelligence and vigor is an outcome of hardship and the struggle for freedom (Wells 36). And in the absence of hardship and freedom, intelligent life will digress. This theory is an underlying theme of The Time Machine and can be substantiated throughout the epic work.
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Settled and Scented: The Science Behind Consciousness
by David Harris. Edited for a member of the NRP Book Group
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The Nature of the Creative Mind by Daniel Pinnell. First published in 1970 and reprinted in 1972. This concise, insightful survey of the scientific community concerning all the issues involved in the field of creative thought suggests (on a par with what is discussed in this book) that people have taken up creative thought in many contexts and in many areas, such as the Arts, the Education, the Arts, and so on, as well as, many other fields. The nature of this subject matter is very open-ended, and there is a lot of debate on how many of us see life as an opportunity for us, and how we might use such a development to change the way we think. It is a good indication that we are on an age of increasing use of alternative and alternative thought and are at increasing stress, so that much that is already self-critical is now the norm. The creative mind is an experience, and this is both useful and not so useful in trying constructively to use any knowledge given there to give meaning to what we think. In our case it is useful in this context to examine the creative use of technology as a means of altering the world around us from what we find there, whether that is natural, human, or otherwise. Rather than seeking to understand our human condition like some sort of alien or alien artifact, which I have defined as a construct or process, I would like to say that we can use to think more clearly about how we might use technology. What I mean is of course that we cannot just read to do this as being a certain act of creative thought. Rather, we have to do it consciously. Why, what, and how? This can be done quite well when we are given the opportunity to think. But is its use actually helpful? I think that most of us see this as very different from what we are trying to do, and we feel a bit different about our way of doing it, about ourselves. The main differences we have, I think, are that we think differently of ourselves, that things have changed, and that we have different capacities for doing it. We feel less confident that we can change our way of thinking and that we have made too great a mistake because we have done what we wanted anyway. There is great potential here for us of making the right choice and making the right choice for our goals. I think that the best way here is not to try to go too far or too long, but to learn to think objectively and objectively about the world in which we live. (Note: the authors note that the book uses the same wording of “all options” when used in their descriptions of the human condition.) I do not believe that all options are bad and that we simply should never be tempted to do these things because of an external influence or even an internal necessity. But in general I think that, for the creative mind, every problem has the potential to produce problems and problems to change as well
Wells character, Time Traveler, is a learned man in an intellect-seeking culture, Victorian England. His weekly meetings imply open discussions between the knowledge seeking community such as the argumentative Filby, the humbugging psychologist, a very young cigar-smoking man, the Provincial mayor, a medical man, an editor, a journalist, a quiet bearded-man, the eminent scientist Time Traveler, and the narrator (Wells 1-6). The narrator says of the time period”Humanity had been strong, energetic, and intelligent” (Wells 2_). Wells work reflects his great admiration of intellect and the progressive search for high levels of understanding. Gratton, in a critique of Wells says that, “[…] he believes is progress, science, education, and the inherent goodness of man (Gratton 501). Rebecca West further concurs that, “[…] He (Wells) broods…the wisdom of the world.”(West 493) The Time Traveler observes and reflects during his journey as he meets and interacts with beings of the future that, “[…] when mind and strength had gone[…]gratitude and mutual tenderness still lived in the heart of man.” (Wells 33) The Traveler is beginning to hint that human intelligence is lagging. The Traveler stated further on, ” I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been.” (Wells 65) He cited the crumbling museums and communal apathy toward conflict as proof that intelligence waned. “Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.” (Wells ) His commentary on the advance of the human race seems to signify that the race had developed technologically to the point that there was no needs nor wants, so mental work no longer was praised, achieved, nor being sought. Ellis reflected similarly,”[…] the Superman really began to arise with the discovery of writing…and now has reached the beginning of the end […]” (Wells 493).
Wells wrote The Time Machine based on his own ideals, “Wells believed that even life is indeed a meaningless, dualistic struggle.” (tclc 486) The Time Traveler had come from a time period in which there was class distinction and a struggle to move up in class. Bergonzi stated, “The opposition of Eloi and Morlocks can be interpreted in terms of the late nineteenth-century class-struggle.” (Bergonzi 542) Wells implies this