30 “our contemporary world” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 645.
31 “idiotic slang” – Wells, Sleeper, p. 190.
32 “to print permanent memories” – Ibid., p. 154.
33 “nightmare of capitalism triumphant” – Ibid., p. 8.
34 “It suffers from vast contradictions” – Orwell, CW V, p. 188.
35 “worn-out dreams” – Wells, Sleeper, p. 202.
36 “monstrous crowds” – Ibid., p. 79.
37 “the impulse of passionate inadequacy” – Ibid., p. 212.
38 “The hope of mankind” – Ibid., p. 170.
39 “For this year” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 153.
40 “The old local order” – Wells, Utopia, p. 33.
41 “the keystone” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 643.
42 “sober forecasting” – Ibid., p. 646.
43 “designed to undermine” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 147.
44 “Generally the fault” – Quoted in David C. Smith, H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography (Yale University Press, 1986), p. 100.
45 “Well, the world is a world” – H. G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1902), p. 317.
46 “one of the most remarkable men alive” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 162. “an explorer of a new world” – Quoted in ibid., p. 170.
47 “Heaven defend us” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 219.
48 “voluntary noblemen” – Wells, Utopia, p. 86. Уэллс Г. Современная Утопия» / пер. В. Зиновьев. – М.: Терра, 2010. 372 с.
49 “imaginary laws” – Ibid., p. 23.