Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. The darkness grew apace a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east. The ending of his time-travel evokes a sense of dismay, trepidation and horror over what our future generations are going to have to live with, if each one of us is not watchful and worthy today: Wells' science fiction may become prophetic in modern times from the unmitigated steps of destruction of "the planet's life system by the so-called "rational" mankind, but truly, a savage of civilization. Wells had dealt with, a century ago, in his The lime Machine (1895), presents the argument that too much comfort and affluence and an uncaring selfish heart that has no concern for the other leads to indolence and retardation of human progress to the point of self-annihilation.
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