Wells, I am well aware that one of Wells’s notorious shortcomings is the way his characters are often mere pawns in scenarios or plotlines designed to convey Wells’s social, technological and political ideas.Īt least that’s what I thought until I read these two novels of Chesterton’s. Having just read four novels on the trot by H.G. (A policeman, talking to the novel’s protagonist, Gabriel Syme) Chesterton’s paper-thin characters But philosophers dislike property as property they wish to destroy the very idea of personal possession.’ They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. They accept the essential ideal of man they merely seek it wrongly. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men my heart goes out to them. ‘We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher.
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