FUTURE OF MANKIND
MIGHTY EFFORT NEEDED TO AVERT WORLD-DEVASTATING • WAR. HORRIFYING PICTURE DRAWN BY H. G. WELLS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. Mr H. G. Wells, addressing the science congress declared that unless humanity made a mighty effort of adjustment it could not escape either self-destruction as a species or modification into a more wary, combative and malignant type, tough and hardhearted enough to maintain itself for a longer or shorter age on a war-devas-tated planet. He continued: “Either we adapt—we set ourselves to learn and organise our adaptation—or the genus homo will culminate in an exterminating conqueror, living in caverns and fortifications, with no arts but the arts of war, and a collection of murderous official secrets in the place of science.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19390113.2.84
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1939, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
129FUTURE OF MANKIND Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1939, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in