Following this post about what the future holds, to use a time machine to find out the truth would be incredible. But the author chose to go further than that. To skip past the unimaginable technological advances and scientific discoveries to an alien world where humans have evolved in two different ways as products of what society required them to be. I won't ruin it the book by saying anymore here.
The book, though about time travel to the future, is a product of the society at the time of the author. It was written in 1895 and I wonder what a modern author would come up with when looking that far ahead. It was brave to consider the decay of intellect, I would find it hard to let go of that when imagining even 802,701. Its difficult, when considering social class I think of the gap closing but that is only in our country, there is a whole world out there with a very different life to what I see around me. It still stands true today that my food is grown and my clothes are made by the other people only it is even more like 802,701 now than it was in 1895 because those other people are on a whole other continent to me, there are even further from my mind. how long until they are underground.
The first chapter was probably my favorite actually, the way the time traveler describes why time travel should be possible was quite convincing. He described how not long before we could not traveling higher than a jump in the up and down dimension. But then we built machines. And that we are already travelling in the forward direction of time and why should we not build a machine to alter our speed and direction. But then of course there are all kinds of paradoxes so it would be against nature as it is against nature to travel into space which is why it is so difficult. Difficult but not impossible. Weird.
It was only a few chapter in that I remembered the big bang episode when they bought a model of the time machine.
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