By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians… - H. G. Wells

The effects of the ideas of Roosevelt's ‘new deal’ is most powerful, and in my opinion they are socialist ideas

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky.

"But," said I, "these things—these animals talk!"</p><p>He said that was so, and proceeded to point out that the possibility of vivisection does not stop at a mere physical metamorphosis. A pig may be educated. The mental structure is even less determinate than the bodily. In our growing science of hypnotism we find the promise of a possibility of superseding old inherent instincts by new suggestions, grafting upon or replacing the inherited fixed ideas. Very much indeed of what we call moral education, he said, is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.