Wells and Eliot shared a desire for a clean harmonious society

Evidence

On the face of it, conservative and romantic T. S. Eliot would occupy an opposite pole on many a continuum on which the liberal and progressive H. G. Wells could be also plotted. Indeed, Wells’ brash, all-stops-pulled bravery fed by scientific hubris would jar stridently with T. S. Eliot’s worldview; but the desire of a harmonious, aesthetically pleasing and “clean” society was common to both thinkers, as was the conviction that society would not become clean or harmonious if guided solely by its natural inclinations, The population should be homogenous; where two or more cultures exist in the same place, they are likely either to be fiercely self-conscious or both to become adulterate. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 412

Categorization

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