H.G. Wells and Visions of Monsters and Cannibals

I am fascinated and bemused by this comment from G.K. Chesterton on the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, whom all loyal sons of the goddess scientifiction revere as the founder of our little walled city in the wilderness of literature:

The world did have new visions, if they were visions of monsters in the moon and Martians striding about like spiders as tall as the sky, and the workmen and capitalists becoming two separate species, so that one could devour the other as gaily and greedily a...