Chapter 4
'Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.' The Time Traveller's first reflection on Eloi weakness.
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Wells inverts Victorian progress: comfort and security have produced not utopia but biological and intellectual decay.
Chapter 10
His meditation on how human intellect 'committed suicide' once nature was conquered—the paradox of perfected civilization.
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