by Joseph Pearce
“The most vociferous and vituperative critic of The Outline of History was Hilaire Belloc, a Catholic historian, poet, and essayist. Belloc’s first attacks against Wells’ History were published in the London Mercury and the Dublin Review. Thereafter, he systematically dissected Wells’ book in a long series of articles in The Universe, accusing Wells of a prejudiced provincialism and an ignorance of the very science that he sought to enthrone as the driving force of history. Wells had “not kept abreast of the modern scientific and historical work,” and he had “not followed the general thought of Europe and America in matters of physical science.” It was, however, Wells’ defective and deficient grasp of history itself which was most at fault:”
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