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李映奇
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The fourth dimension the time traveler tells his dinner guests in chapter 1 of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, is time itself. Consistent with the author's materialist philosophy (Wells was a Fabian Socialist when he wrote The Time Machine), time is another dimension of space added to the three human beings already perceive. The reason that we fail to notice this attribute of reality, the time traveler explains against the objections of his guests, is that "our consciousness moves along it." As with much of his other works, Wells uses scientific hypotheses to comment on the political developments of the society of his time. The Time Machine is no exception. The time traveler visits the future only to discover that socialism - or a corrupt version of it - is the state to which human society has evolved.