The Readers Review: Literature from 1714 to 1910 discussion

For discussing Chapters 4-6 of The Time Machine. Please be aware if you have not finished these chapters spoilers may be posted here.

“Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect”

“For countless years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence, no danger from wild beasts, no wasting disease to require strength of constitution, no need of toil. For such a life, what we should call the weak are as well equipped as the strong, are indeed no longer weak. Better equipped indeed they are, for the strong would be fretted by an energy for which there was no outlet.”

I love these early musings by the Time Traveler!

Also, I'm amused/surprised that HG has given his main character a futuristic girlfriend. Is this marketing? Has Wells created his "perfect" woman, rendered completely docile and compliant by eons of genetic engineering? Is this his way of extending the idyll until he can bring on the Moorlocks? I'm not entirely certain of her purpose.