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Mind at the End of Its Tether

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In H.G. Wells: Middle and late works
…in the future, and in Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945) he depicts a bleak vision of a world in which nature has rejected, and is destroying, humankind.
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In science fiction: Utopias and dystopias
…and his last essay, “Mind at the End of Its Tether” (1945), darkly prophesied extinction for the human race, which, in his later opinion, lacked the creative flexibility to control its own affairs.
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