 ... a little while. Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, to risk even a reasonable...  The First Men in the Moon - Seite 218von Herbert George Wells - 1901 - 342 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sir George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1901 - 792 Seiten
...and cool. I intended to rest for only "HE SEEMED TO DRIFT THROUGH THE AIR AS A DEAD LEAF WOULD DO." a little while. I put down my clubs beside me and...being safe and comfortable and well fed and amused ; but that man himself, if you put the thing to him — not in words, but in the shape of opportunities... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - 1925 - 476 Seiten
...him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, even to risk a reasonable certainty of death ? It dawned upon me...being safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. Against his interest, against his happiness he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things.... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - 1925 - 476 Seiten
...172 for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, even to risk a reasonable certainty of death ? It dawned upon me...being safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. Against his interest, against his happiness he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things.... | |
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