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I stood with my feet upon the Stone Age and saw myself four thousand years away and all my distresses as very little incidents in that perspective.
From The Secret Places of the Heart by H G Wells.
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03/01/2011 at 17:39
Mark Patton
Wells’s fascination with archaeology may have begun with his early acquaintance with Sir John Lubbock, a close neighbour in Kent. As a young man, Lubbock played cricket for the team managed by Wells’s father, and also, briefly, courted Wells’s aunt, Margaret.
A student once submitted an essay to me which I was sure was plagiarised. The archaeological content was horribly outdated, but it was written in glorious English prose the like of which I had never seen from an undergraduate. I eventually identified the source as Wells’s History of the World!
03/01/2011 at 18:21
Littlestone
“A student once submitted an essay to me which I was sure was plagiarised. The archaeological content was horribly outdated, but it was written in glorious English prose the like of which I had never seen from an undergraduate. I eventually identified the source as Wells’s History of the World!”
Glorious prose indeed Mark, there are a couple more examples here –
https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/silbury-clumsy-treasure-hunting/
https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/avebury-and-h-g-wells/