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A blast from the past

October 18, 2008 - 7:49 am - by Richard Fernandez
james wilson
2008-10-18 08:34:23

Wells was, of course, a radical socialist. His desire for gratitude and mutual tenderness are quaint, considering those qualities are only formed through the Tocqueville’s very individualistic ‘reciprocal influence of men upon one another’. Socialism is the end, not the beginning, of helpfulness.
The desire for universality is as old as the human race, but no gratitude or tenderness has ever been found there. Quite the contrary.