A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.

Science fiction author Robert A. After leaving Columbia he wrote 4 commercially unsuccessful though critically well-received books King Midas (1901) Prince Hagen (1902) The Journal of Arthur Stirling (1903) and a Civil War novel entitled Manassas (1904). During his years with his second wife Mary Craig Sinclair wrote or produced several films.

He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel The Jungle (1906). It exposed conditions in the U.