Another, separate thought on The Time Machine.

There is a certain amount of hypocrisy in the Time Traveller's role as scientist.  He, on the one hand, completely relies on scientific experimentation, is obsessed with it to the point of unreal innovation.  But then, at the very end of the novel, the narrator describes him as against scientific innovation.  He says, "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 civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end."  One might assume that his experiences with the Eloi and the Murlochs have influenced him, making him realize that scientific progress isn't always positive, but the narrator makes a point to say that the Time Traveller felt this way "long before the Time Machine was made," meaning that he has always felt this way towards the "Advancement of Mankind" that his scientific experiments contribute to.  Why would he feel this way?  Is this yet another coexistence of seemingly antithetical discourses?  Or might he have been unaware of the irony in his sentiment toward the "Advancement of Mankind," considering his participation in it? 

Or, perhaps this explains why the Time Traveller never cares to publicize his findings.  He shares his journey with his friends, but when they fail to believe him, he isn't too bothered by it and keeps the Time Machine to himself thereafter.  This point of possible contradiction speaks to larger issues surrounding Wells' purporting of the Eloi and Murlochs as, in its projection of the future, its own scientific theory not unlike those of Darwin.