{"id":16065,"date":"2016-08-18T13:36:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wellsherbert-george-h-g\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:36:13","slug":"wellsherbert-george-h-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wellsherbert-george-h-g\/","title":{"rendered":"WELLS,\nHERBERT GEORGE \u201cH.G.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (September 21, 1866\u2013August 13, 1946), was one of the best-known British literary figures. He was a novelist, historian, sociologist, and scientific writer. His works include: <i>The Time Machine,<\/i> 1895; <i>The Invisible Man<\/i>; 1897; <i>The War of the Worlds,<\/i> 1898; <i>The First Men in the Moon,<\/i> 1901; <i>Kipps, <\/i>1905; 3 1909; <i>The History of Mr. Polly<\/i>, 1910; <i>Mr. Britling Sees It Through<\/i>; <i>The Island of Dr. Moreau<\/i>; <i>Love and Mr. Lewisham<\/i>; <i>Experiment in Autobiography<\/i>; <i>The Discovery of the Future,<\/i> 1901; <i>The War that will end War,<\/i> 1914; <i>The Shape of Things to Come,<\/i> 1933; and <i>The Science of Life,<\/i> 1929.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In 1920, H.G. Wells, himself a skeptic, wrote of the U.S. Constitution in <i>The Outlines of History<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Its spirit is indubitably Christian.&#65279;3156&#65279;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In August of 1941, H.G. Wells wrote in his work, <i>The Pocket History of the World:<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Ideas of human solidarity, thanks to Christianity, were far more widely diffused in the newer European world, political power was not so concentrated, and the man of energy anxious to get rich turned his mind, therefore, very willingly from the ideas of the slave and of gang labour to the idea of mechanical power and the machine.&#65279;3157&#65279;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In his studies on education, H.G. Wells noted:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Education is the preparation of the individual for the community, and his religious training is the core of that preparation.&#65279;3158&#65279;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(September 21, 1866\u2013August 13, 1946), was one of the best-known British literary figures. He was a novelist, historian, sociologist, and scientific writer. His works include: The Time Machine, 1895; The Invisible Man; 1897; The War of the Worlds, 1898; The First Men in the Moon, 1901; Kipps, 1905; 3 1909; The History of Mr. Polly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wellsherbert-george-h-g\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WELLS,<br \/>\nHERBERT GEORGE \u201cH.G.\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}