The Collected Works of H. G. Wells: Time Travel, Dystopian Futures, and Social Prophecy—Novels, Short Stories, and Essays of Victorian Science Fiction

by H.G. Wells

On no conceivable grounds was there any sense in modern war. Save for the slaughter and mangling of a multitude of people, the destruction of vast quantities of material, and the waste of innumerable units of energy, it effected nothing.