In CHapter 10 of The Time Machine the traveller states :
“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed $uicide. It had set itself steadfastly toward comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword, it had attained its hopes-to come to this at last. Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety. The rich had been assured of their wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work. No doubt in the perfect world there had been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved. And a great quiet had followed.”
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence when there is no change, or need for change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have met a huge variety of needs and dangers.”


Here we have H.G. Well’s statement about human nature and his sci-fi prediction of what is to come for humanity. What is your opinion about his claim? Write a well structured paragraph explaining your view.

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