There are numerous people in society who lack certain skills that they need for survival.
These people may lack intelligence and depend on other human beings to help them get .
through life. However, most of the time, it is there fault that they lack these necessities. In .
"The Time Machine" by H.G Wells, the Eloi had this problem. They were victims of their .
own weaknesses because they didn't understand that learning these important skills was .
necessary for them to survive. .
When he arrived in the future, The Time Traveller, after seeing and hearing the .
Eloi, concluded that they had an extremely low intelligence compared to the people that .
lived in his time. They were often described as and compared to little children. "Then one .
of them asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our .
five year old children."(39) He was very shocked about this weakness that the Eloi .
possessed. The fact that the Time Traveller lived 800,00 years in the past led him to .
believe that over time, the generations got less and less intelligent and more involved with .
having fun compared to the world where he lived. .
The Time Traveller also realized that the Eloi were very dependent on other .
people for many of there resources. He mentioned that the Eloi had houses and clothing .
but he didn't see any machinery or anything that could possibly produce these items. .
"There were no shops, no workshops, no sign of importations among them." (65) This led .
him the believe that there had to be someone or something that was making these items for .
them. Since the Time Traveller had already know about the low intelligence of the Eloi, .
this didn't come as surprize to him. He was able to come to the conclusion that the Eloi .
cannot do very much for themselves. .
Another fact that the Time Traveler came across was that the Eloi spent all day .
playing games and doing nothing of importance. He didn't understand how they could get .
