H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine and ADHD’s Implications For Education
A little while ago I decided to reread father of science fiction H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine after obtaining an absolutely gorgeous illustrated edition published by the Folio Society. Whilst reading through this short story I came across a particular section which sparked a new idea and again suggested to me the brilliance of Wells’ writing.
Part of The Time Machine’s charm lies in the speculations and theories with which the protagonist. the time traveller, tries to understand the strange sights, experiences, and societies of this future earth. The passage i was referring to earlier is one of the Time Traveller’s attempts to address the evolution of these new human-like beings that appear to populate earth at that future time, the Eloi;
“Humanity had been strong, energetic, and intelligent, and had used all its abundant vitality to alter the conditions under which it had lived. […] Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness. Even in our own time certain tendencies and desires, once necessary to survival, are a constant source of failure” (38-39)
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