British novelist who wrote The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, expressing early 20th century fears about science destroying civilization and humanity.
"I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts; I see it bringing a time of vast conflicts, which will pale into insignificance 'the thousand "