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MR. H. G. WELLS is the only man of letters who understands the scientific spirit, and has consistently urged the use of it in the solution of social problems. In his imaginative romances, as well as in works on social, religious and political questions, he has always presented science as a progressive influence and has remonstrated against the unworthy ends for which it is often used. The hope expressed in his “Anticipations” and “A Modern Utopia” took different form in “The Shape of Things to Come” published two years ago and was accompanied by a warning of disaster unless human purposes were determined by reconstructed principles. Science has put into the hands of civilised man the power to destroy himself or to make the world a celestial dwelling place; and the sooner this is widely realised the safer will the world be for humanity. There is no better way to-day of making this message universal than through the motion picture; and this is done in the marvellous film “Things to Come”, the world premiere of which was given in London on Friday,
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Mr. H. G. Wells's Film ” Things to Come”. Nature 137, 352 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137352b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137352b0