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1"This adjustment, I say, must have been done, and done well; done indeed for all Time, in the space of Time across which
2my machine had leapt. The air was free from gnats, the earth from weeds or fungi; everywhere were fruits and sweet and
3delightful flowers; brilliant butterflies flew hither and thither. The ideal of preventive medicine was attained.
4Diseases had been stamped out. I saw no evidence of any contagious diseases during all my stay. And I shall have to tell
5you later that even the processes of putrefaction and decay had been profoundly affected by these changes. "Social
6triumphs, too, had been effected. I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters, gloriously clothed, and as yet I had found
7them engaged in no toil. There were no signs of struggle, neither social nor economical struggle. The shop, the
8advertisement, traffic, all that commerce which constitutes the body of our world, was gone. It was natural on that
9golden evening that I should jump at the idea of a social paradise. The difficulty of increasing population had been
10met, I guessed, and population had ceased to increase. "But with this change in condition comes inevitably adaptations
11to the change. What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour?
12Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall;
13conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And
14the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring,
15parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young. Now, where are
16these imminent dangers? There is a sentiment arising, and it will grow, against connubial jealousy, against fierce
17maternity, against passion of all sorts; unnecessary things now, and things that make us uncomfortable, savage
18survivals, discords in a refined and pleasant life. "I thought of the physical slightness of the people, their lack of
19intelligence, and those big abundant ruins, and it strengthened my belief in a perfect conquest of Nature. For after the
20battle comes Quiet. Humanity had been strong, energetic, and intelligent, and had used all its abundant vitality to
21alter the conditions under which it lived. And now came the reaction of the altered conditions. "Under the new
22conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness. Even
23in our own time certain tendencies and desires, once necessary to survival, are a constant source of failure. Physical
24courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help--may even be hindrances--to a civilised man. And in a
25state of physical balance and security, power, intellectual as well as physical, would be out of place. For countless
26years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence, no danger from wild beasts, no wasting disease to
27require strength of constitution, no need of toil. For such a life, what we should call the weak are as well equipped as
28the strong, are indeed no longer weak. Better equipped indeed they are, for the strong would be fretted by an energy for
29which there was no outlet. No doubt the exquisite beauty of the buildings I saw was the outcome of the last surgings of
30the now purposeless energy of mankind before it settled down into perfect harmony with the conditions under which it
31lived--the flourish of that triumph which began the last great peace. This has ever been the fate of energy in security;
32it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay. "Even this artistic impetus would at last die
33away--had almost died in the Time I saw. To adorn themselves with flowers, to dance, to sing in the sunlight: so much
34was left of the artistic spirit, and no more. Even that would fade in the end into a contented inactivity. We are kept
35keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity, and it seemed to me that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last!
36"As I stood there in the gathering dark I thought that in this simple explanation I had mastered the problem of the
37world--mastered the whole secret of these delicious people. Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of
38population had succeeded too well, and their numbers had rather diminished than kept stationary. That would account for
39the abandoned ruins. Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough--as most wrong theories are!
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