The Undying Fire

by H. G. Wells

Overview

This is the annotated edition including the rare biographical essay by Edwin E. Slosson called "H. G. Wells - A Major Prophet Of His Time". Once more Mr. Wells doubts whether the world can save itself; once more he invents a Redeemer to endorse his incorrigible millennial hope. The Undying Fire depicts man's plight in the physical universe with so vivid an imagery and so moving an eloquence that it properly belongs in the line of the Browne-Stevenson tradition. At the same time it fitfully approaches so near to the wise disillusion of Mr. Russell that its very fallings-short reinforce the lesson that there is salvation for us neither in Conscious Control, nor in Education, nor in faith in the Undying Fire of intuition of an organizing God at work in the hearts of men to make for orderly righteousness, nor in any hope-breeding mirage this newest anthropomorphic deity may dangle on the horizon of the desert of reality; but only in " the unflinching perception of our true place " in an indifferent universe. This is the only truth the knowledge off which can make us free. That Mr. Wells should perceive this truth, flinch, and then rest his eyes upon the old Utopian horizon, is a symptom of the recrudescence, with a special virulence, of his spiritual malady.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783849641474
Publisher:	Jazzybee Verlag
Publication date:	11/27/2013
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	359 KB

About the Author

H.G. Wells (1866–1946), born Herbert George Wells, was an English author known for not only his popular science fiction books but also works of social commentary, history and biography. His first novel, The Time Machine, was published in 1895. Socially progressive and visionary in intellect, H.G. Wells became one of the most prolific writers of his generation. Through books like The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and War of the Worlds, Wells delved into a plethora of social, philosophical and political ideas through the medium of what we now call science fiction.

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1866

Date of Death:

August 13, 1946

Place of Birth:

Bromley, Kent, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Normal School of Science, London, England