A Foolish Heaping
He, I know—for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made—thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilisation only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. If that is so, it remains for us to live as though it were not so.
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Context: The book's narrator, a friend of the Time Traveller, weighs his friend's gloomy view of progress.
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Source: Epilogue