[The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H.G. Wells]@TWC D-Link bookThe Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth CHAPTER THE FOURTH 12/58
Expands the topic.
What Good will it do, he asks, to make poor people six-and-thirty feet high? He really believes, you know, that they _will_ be thirty-six feet high." "So they would _be_," said Bensington, "if you gave them our food at all regularly.
But nobody said anything---" "_I_ said something." "But, my dear Winkles--!" "They'll be Bigger, of course," interrupted Winkles, with an air of knowing all about it, and discouraging the crude ideas of Bensington. "Bigger indisputably.
But listen to what he says! Will it make them happier? That's his point.
Curious, isn't it? Will it make them better? Will they be more respectful to properly constituted authority? Is it fair to the children themselves? ? Curious how anxious his sort are for justice--so far as any future arrangements go.
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