Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris pp 189-207 | Cite as

Punishment, Purgatory, and Paradise: Hating the Sin, and Sometimes the Sinner, in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Invisible Man

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• Gianluca Guerriero

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First Online: 11 December 2016

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Abstract

If, drunk with sight of power, we loose

Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe—

Such boastings as the Gentiles use,

Or lesser breeds without the Law—

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,

Lest we forget—lest we forget!

Rudyard Kipling, ‘Recessional’ (1897)

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Moral Theory Gated Community Christian Faith Remote Environment Eternal Life 

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• Gianluca Guerriero
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1. 1.University of LeedsCityUK