TROTSKY AND WELLS
Sta,—Dr. Huxley says quite rightly that "Wells, the encyclopaedist, re- ceived some hard strokes from specoialists andpedants." But a knock that really seemed to have hit the nail on the head came from another quarter. Leon Trotsky, who called Wells a Fabian Calvin, wrote this of Wells's Outline : "Conceive a complete absence, of method, of historical perspec- tive, of understanding of the mutual dependence of various sides of social life, and absence of any kiwi of scientific discipline in general, and imagine, further, that the 'historian,' overstocked with these qualities, with the careless mien of a man finishing his Sunday walk, wanders to and fro and up and down through the history of several tens of thousands of years. You will then have Wells's book."—Yours, &c., AYANA DEVA.
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