The future of mankind is not at all admirable, I guess, for anyone who finished Wells' "The Time Machine". The sympathetic account of the Eloi world is an poignant allegory pessimistically indicating the tradegy of our future. The Morlocks, however, even bear more appalling symbols in the story where these descedants of human species eventually destroy the civilisation created by mankind. Unlike Jules Verne's novels, Wells' cynical tone permeates from cover to cover. "Fin de siecle" was a prevelant theme in late Victorian writings, people began to smell the uneasiness though often implicitly, and writers like Wells inquired "will our future be really better?" in that glorious time where natural sciences flourished much more prosperously than any time in history.