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THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT

by H. G. Wells (1915)



CONTENTS


THE PRELUDE

ON FEAR AND ARISTOCRACY


THE STORY

I. THE BOY GROWS UP

II. THE YOUNG MAN ABOUT TOWN

III. AMANDA

IV. THE SPIRITED HONEYMOON

V. THE ASSIZE OF JEALOUSY

VI. THE NEW HAROUN AL RASCHID




THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT




THE PRELUDE



ON FEAR AND ARISTOCRACY


1

The story of William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was
led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession
of his imagination quite early in life, it grew with him and changed
with him, it interwove at last completely with his being. His story
is its story. It was traceably germinating in the schoolboy; it was