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- W2495145523 abstract "A creature has three main ways of self-defence—fighting, escape, and co-operation. Each of these gets copious attention in Wells’s books, and was of considerable importance to his life. Fighting, in particular, is something his imagination eagerly throws itself into. Categorising Wells as ‘a nineteenth-century liberal whose heart does not leap at the sound of bugles’, George Orwell once wrote, ‘The thunder of guns, the jingle of spurs, the catch in the throat when the old flag goes by, leave him manifestly cold. He has an invincible hatred of the fighting, hunting, swashbuckling side of life.’ Nothing could be further from the truth. Belligerent himself, Wells responded keenly to belligerence in others. ‘Man has pranced a soldier in reality and fancy for so many generations’, states What Are We To Do With Our Lives? ‘that few of us can altogether release our imaginations from the brilliant pretensions of flags, empire, patriotism, and aggression.’ This last quality completely enthralls Wells, as The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind makes clear: There is something that stirs our unregenerate natures in the foaming advance of a great battleship and in the emphatic thud of gunfire.… Most of us could watch aerial warfare with undiluted pleasure if the promiscuous use of bombs were barred. We should follow with sympathetic delight the nimble dance of the conquering ace flying for position, tapping out the bullets from his exquisite gun with finished skill, sending, amidst our applause, his dead and wounded antagonists spinning down, poor rabbits, to their ultimate dramatic smash." @default.
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