There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly.
A Modern Utopia — narrator (H. G. Wells)
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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- A Modern Utopia (1905); Exact wording and attribution checked. Narratorial commentary in a utopian novel/essay; an argument about technology and social organization, not an empirical guarantee.
- A Modern Utopia (1905)
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