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Updated: June 17, 2025
Ponderevo, being bankrupt, moves to London, and in the course of time George, now a student of science, follows him. New vistas of life open up in the midst of this vast, overgrown, "purposeless," "dingy" city. Nobody since Dickens has given us the impression of London in all its multitudinous, dismal-gay activities as Mr. Wells gives it us. But it is no longer the London of Dickens.
When, through the arts of Alfred Stevens, Margaret Cooper was led to discuss, perhaps to despise, those nice and seemingly purposeless barriers which society having the experience of ages for its authority has wisely set up between the sexes she had already taken a large stride toward passing them. But of this, which a judicious education would have taught her, she was wholly ignorant.
Some birds, too, deliberately bury seeds in the earth, or in holes excavated by them in the bark of trees, not indeed with a foresight aiming directly at the propagation of the plant, but from apparently purposeless secretiveness, or as a mode of preserving food for future use.
My Mary and my George favoured guests have sat with us through our meal; but how fleeting our converse with those others with Mr. William Wyvern, with Margaret, with Mrs. Major and with Mr. Marrapit! I grant you cause to grumble at their introduction, so purposeless has been their part.
A wave of morbid introspection swept over her soul. She realised in a moment how petty and base had been her thoughts and how purposeless her actions. She would have given her life at this moment to eradicate from Deroulede's mind the knowledge of her own jealousy; she hoped that at least he had not guessed her love.
Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home.
Suddenly, and as a well-spring in the desert, Vashti had come into the dull round of his duty his purposeless, monotonous duty to refresh it; nor perhaps were the waters less sweet for the feeling that they were stolen. So he lived in the day, and put off thinking of the inevitable end. One thing only troubled his happiness.
In spite of this statement, the Church, more indulgent, closed its eyes to certain expressions, certain turns of style borrowed from the secular language of the same century, and the Catholic idiom had slightly purified itself of its heavy and massive phrases, especially cleaning itself, in Bossuet, of its prolixity and the painful rallying of its pronouns; but here ended the concessions, and others would doubtless have been purposeless for the prose sufficed without this ballast for the limited range of subjects to which the Church confined itself.
Harold suddenly declared that he was sick of gallivanting about the fashionable world; sick of idleness sick of the silly purposeless existence he led; and thereupon announced his intention of studying medicine seriously and as a profession. Mrs. Purling was at first aghast, then argumentative, finally indignant. But Harold remained inflexible, and she grew more and more wrathful.
In some constitutions there is a natural chemistry, and these constitutions may produce chemic wonders in others a natural fluid, call it electricity, and these may produce electric wonders. "But the wonders differ from Normal Science in this they are alike objectless, purposeless, puerile, frivolous.
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