Abstract
IN this film story Mr. H. G. Wells applies again the treatment used in “Things to Come” to material drawn from the fantastic vein of his earlier works. He describes how a draper's assistant in a small town suddenly becomes endowed with miraculous powers, how he uses his newly acquired gifts to further his own desires or those of friends, and how he loses his gift with dramatic suddenness just as he involves the world in disaster. Mr. Wells uses his new technique to expound his familiar theme of man's inability to use wisely the powers with which science has endowed him, and to bring into high relief the moral as well as the material obstacles which beset the transformation of the present situation of unemployment and impoverishment in the midst of overproduction and sabotage into an era of peace and plenitude for all.
Man who could work Miracles
H. G.
Wells
By. A Film Story based on the Material contained in his short story ” Man who could work Miracles”. Pp. 96. (London: The Cresset Press, 1936.) 3s. 6d. net.
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Man who could work Miracles. Nature 137, 929 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137929b0
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