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H.G. Wells
Churchill and H.G. Wells Debate Government by Experts
Churchill challenged Wells’s prediction of a future world government run by experts: “Human nature is a much more intractable and masterful thing than your speculations admit,” he told HGW. “We shall not change so quickly as you think.” Churchill’s views hadn’t changed 30 years later when he wrote: “It is at once the safeguard and the glory of mankind that they are easy to lead and hard to drive.”
“Shall We All Commit Suicide?”: Churchill’s Scientific Imagination – Part 2
Churchill’s affinity for scientific techniques, themes and writers significantly proclaims his openness toward the future—and its perils.
“Shall We All Commit Suicide?”: Churchill’s Scientific Imagination – Part 1
Churchill’s imagination in engaging with science and its potential consequences enabled him to confront vast change between the Victorian and Atomic eras.
Winston Churchill and Julius Caesar: Parallels and Inspirations
“In my mind’s eye I invest him with the robes of Caesar…. The lives of the great are an inspiration to their posterity.” —Lewis Broad
Great Contemporaries: Churchill and H. G. Wells, the Two Futurists
Churchill’s friendship with H.G. Wells spanned forty years, and his enthusiasm for the writer’s work went back to “The Time Machine,” Wells’s first novel, published 1895.