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Quotation from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
“So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour.”
The Time Machine, Chapter VIII, Explanation (Project Gutenberg #35)
The Traveller's second theory projects the class divisions of his own London into the far future.
Citation: "So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour." — H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter VIII, Explanation (Project Gutenberg #35). (id the-time-machine-q2)
Portrait: H.G. Wells by Beresford, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.
