And for the rest, those swarms of black, and brown, and dirty-white, and yellow people, who do not come into the new needs of efficiency? Well, the world is a world, not a charitable institution, and I take it they will have to go.
— H.G. Wells Modern

Science fiction pioneer

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From 'Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought'.

Date / Period

1901

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Shocking

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_H._G._Wells

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